Data Mining: Student Projects
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| Title | Categories | Students | University | Year | Presentation | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forecasting Monthly Tourism to Sikkim, India | Tourism | Palash Borah, Saurabh Agarwal, Varun Sayal, Dipayan Dey, Abhishek Kumar | ISB | 2012 (Feb) | Presentation | Report |
| Forecasting Women's Apparel Sales | Operations, Retail | Naveen Kumar, Akshay Sethi, Karthik Vemparala, Sruthi Yalaka | ISB | 2012 (Feb) | Presentation | Report |
| Forecasting US Airways’ international passenger traffic in Phoenix | Operations, Transportation | Megan Hanson, Delfin Rico, Filippo Sclafani, Yating Yu | ISB | 2012 (Feb) | Presentation | Report |
| Forecasting Cement Prices for the Construction Industry in India | Operations, Real-Estate | Amit Tyagi, Harmanjit Singh, Mohini Jain, Nandini Chandrasekhar, Rahul Chakraborty | ISB | 2012 (Feb) | Presentation | Report |
| Predicting Changes in Quarterly Corporate Earnings Using Economic Indicators | Finance, Loans & Insurance | Prashant Kumar Bothra, Piyush Mathur, Chandrakanth Vasudev, Harmanjit Singh | ISB | 2011 | Presentation | Report |
| Predicting Appropriate Service Provider based on Mobile Purchase Patterns | Customer Acquisition & Retention, Telecom | Abhinav Nagasubramanian, Chaitanya Indukuri, Mansi Sharma, Mohini Jain, Neha Vairagade | ISB | 2011 | Presentation | Report |
| Predicting Indian Movie Ratings on IMDB | Entertainment, Internet, Social networks | Anand Agarwal, Ayesha Rahman, Motoki Saito, Rangasayee Chandrashekhar, Srikanth S V | ISB | 2011 | Presentation | Report |
| Predicting the Contract Type for IT/ITES Outsourcing Contracts | IT | Nandini Govindarajan, D Ajay Mohan Rao, Delfin de las Heras Rico, Harsh Pandey, Suraj Amonkar | ISB | 2011 | Presentation | Report |
| Bribe Payments For Land Registrations | Government & Military | Hussain Boltwala, Karthik Vemparala, Naveen Kumar HS, Salman Siddiqui, Smita Chakravorty | ISB | 2011 | Presentation | Report |
| Predicting the Average Monthly Billing Amount of a Mobile Customer | Customer Acquisition & Retention, Telecom | Dinesh Fernandes, Gautam Vasappanavara, Hans Hummer, Kathyayani GBS, Manojna Belle | ISB | 2011 | Presentation | Report |
| Predicting Rural Migration in India using Socio-Demographic Information | GNH, Government & Military | Akshad Viswanathan, Anjali Kumari, Imran Ali Richa Gupta, Varun Sayal | ISB | 2011 | Presentation | Report |
| Predicting First Day Returns for Japanese IPOs | Finance, Loans & Insurance | Vivek Kumar, Gaurav Jain, Mahadar Rohan Anil, Tejas Vikram Pahlajani | ISB | 2011 | Presentation | Report |
| Predicting Opening Week Box Office Performance of Hollywood Movies | Entertainment | Deepshikha Yadav, Vibha Naryan, Udayan Dasgupta, Santosh P N, Shanawaz Janmohamed | ISB | 2010 | Presentation | Report |
| Predictive Model for Prosper.com | eCommerce, Finance, Loans & Insurance, Internet | Natasha Sood, Nikhil Goenka, Salil Das, Sourabh Kukreja, Vikas Shah | ISB | 2010 | Presentation | Report |
| Can a VC predict if a start up will become bankrupt? | Finance, Loans & Insurance | Tressa Joy, Kapila Monga, Rishi Raj Singh, Smitha Purohit, Srividya Varanasi, Vivek Vikram Singh | ISB | 2010 | Presentation | Report |
| A recommendation system for BookCrossing.com | Entertainment, Internet | Anurag Sharma, Nitesh Batra, Sandip Chaudhary, Siddharth Chatterji, Siddharth Singh | ISB | 2010 | Presentation | Report |
| Flight delays in the U.S.: JFK to BOS | Transportation | Arjun Hegde, Priyanko Basu | ISB | 2010 | Presentation | Report |
| Predicting Car Prices in Federal Auctions | Government & Military | Tetsuya Morito, Karen Pereira, Jung-Fu Su, Mahsa Saedirad | UMD | 2010 | Presentation | Report |
| Predicting Project Failures for California Solar Initiative Projects | Environment, Utilities | Hakan Ozalp, Peter Protopappas, Nitin Sawant, Prem Swaroop | UMD | 2010 | Presentation | Report |
| Prosper.com: Improving Lending Through Modeling Defaults | eCommerce, Finance, Loans & Insurance, Internet | Lindsey Cohen, Ross Dodd, Wells Person, Amy Rzepka | UMD | 2010 | Presentation | Report |
| It's Not Easy Building Green: Predicting Lead time for LEED Certifications | Environment, Operations | Lauren DeStefano, Anu Gupta, Tim Lewis, Scott Lewis | UMD | 2010 | Presentation | Report |
| Predicting Safety of U.S. Cities | Politics & Law | Elyas Akram, Min Chen, Phuong Le, Bavan Vargese, Fan Zhang | UMD | 2010 | Presentation | Report |
| Quality-of-care factors in U.S. nursing homes | Healthcare | Erica Eisenhart, Alon Gotesman, Audra Johnson, Ben Meadema, Shalin Saini | UMD | 2009 | Presentation | Report |
| Predicting ZILLOW.com’s Zestimate accuracy | Internet, Real-Estate | Sirisha Kilambi, Pramod Mane, Beena Nair, Mehul Shah, Tabrez Shaikh | UMD | 2009 | Presentation | Report |
| Factors Driving Reproductive Health Supply Costs in Developing Countries | Healthcare | Jeffrey Chia-Chieh Hong, John Geraghty, Joseph Lee, Khalil Qasimi, Emma Spight | UMD | 2009 | Presentation | Report |
| What drives mobile users to become active users of DubMeNow? | eCommerce, Social networks, Telecom | Ji Hee Han, Nicholas Rapagnani, Shahryar Rizvi, Jerry Wang | UMD | 2009 | Presentation | Report |
| Explaining Navy Reserve Training Expense Obligations | Government & Military, Operations | Emily Franklin, Roxana Garcia, Mike Hulsey, Raj Kanniyappan, Daniel Lee | UMD | 2009 | Presentation | Report |
| What makes People “HAPPY” | GNH | Dan Curtis, Lynn Foo, Prab Goriparthi, Bakta Salla, Rob Whitener | UMD | 2009 | Presentation | Report |
| Forecasting Application Rates for LEED Certification | Environment, Real-Estate | Dean DiPietro, David Kuhla, Anuja Rathi, JayVirgil, Paige Washington | UMD | 2009 | Presentation | Report |
| Tourism insurance: Predicting days with unhealthy air quality in Washington DC | Environment, Finance, Loans & Insurance | Kate Hannon, Camille Hoff, Tian Liu, Clayton Paulding, Ramin Riahikhoee | UMD | 2009 | Presentation | Report |
| Quality-of-care factors that differentiate hospitals in the Northeast vs. other regions | Healthcare | Kenyon Crowley, Selim Geron, Shih-Heng Hung, Seth Kelly, Liz Slobasky | UMD | 2008 | Presentation | Report |
| The effectiveness of multi-channel advertising | Customer Acquisition & Retention | Miguel Dieguez, Jack Hom, Rahul Prabhu, Landric Walden, Anne Zeeman | UMD | 2008 | Presentation | Report |
| Explaining conversion rate factors in eBay auctions | eCommerce, Internet | A. Zachary Girod, Christen Hartnett, Brad Kolarov, Inbal Yahav | UMD | 2008 | Presentation | Report |
| Comparing US employee profiles in the private and public sectors | Government & Military | Abrar Al-Hasan, Jorge Christian, Hideki Kakuma, Li Wei Chen, Yavor Nikolov | UMD | 2008 | Presentation | Report |
| Predicting Delays in the Operating Room | Healthcare, Operations | Chris Low, Igor Nakshin, Xinyang Zou | UMD | 2007 | Presentation | Report |
| Understanding Health Insurance Coverage in the US | Healthcare | Jason Davis, Clarette Kim, Hari Kosaraju, Scott Wood | UMD | 2007 | Presentation | Report |
| The Drivers of Decreases in Dividends per Share | Finance, Loans & Insurance | Douglas Britton, Srinivasan Chakravarthy, Srihari Dammalapati, Luke Grossmann | UMD | 2007 | Presentation | Report |
| Profiling Student Loan Deferment | Finance, Loans & Insurance | Carlos E. Canales, April Humber, Irakli Nadareishvilli, Khalid Hasan, Soojung Jung | UMD | 2007 | Presentation | Report |
| Characterizing Buyers of Caravan Insurance | Finance, Loans & Insurance, Transportation | Chih‐Hau Huang Masami Mabuchi, Muthita Songchitruksa, Nopakoon Visitrattakul | UMD | 2007 | Presentation | Report |
| Predicting New Customer Retention for Online Dieting & Fitness Programs | Customer Acquisition & Retention, Internet, Sports | Amy Brunner • Harin Sandhoo Lilah Pomerance • Paola Nasser Srinath Bala | UMD | 2007 | Presentation | Report |
| Member Retention Analysis for the Association of Financial Professionals | Customer Acquisition & Retention | Cytena Hubbard, Galina Kozachenko, Chris Klejdys, Josh Miller, Ayon Rahman | UMD | 2007 | Presentation | Report |
| Characterizing Pilgrim Bank's Loyal Customers | Customer Acquisition & Retention, Finance, Loans & Insurance | Michael Isble, Karl Olson, Johan Rong, Ampun Janpengpen, Hyun Kim | UMD | 2007 | Presentation | Report |
| Determining Factors of a Quick Sale in Arlington's Condo Market | Real-Estate | Chris Frohlich, Darik Gossa, James Haas, Roger Moncarz, Jeff Robinson | UMD | 2007 | Presentation | Report |
| House Investment: Profit in 30 Days or Less | Real-Estate | John Bradshaw, Laura Gonzalez, Richard Liao, Bharat Menghani, Michael Movesian | UMD | 2007 | Presentation | Report |
| What drives flight delays between DC and Honolulu? | Transportation | Prashant Bhaip, Andres Garay, Vedat Kaplan, Greg Vinogradov, Yu-Ling Wang | UMD | 2007 | Presentation | Report |
| Understanding the factors creating a box office hit | Entertainment | Andreana Able, Sakol Chompoonich, Chu-Tzu Ko, Kumiko Kotera, Thomas Lotze | UMD | 2007 | Presentation | Report |
| Characterizing Identity Theft Victims | eCommerce, Internet | Mehmet Hondur, Benjama Kounthongkul, Patcharaporn Makarasara, Brenda Martineau, Sophie Shuklin | UMD | 2007 | Presentation | Report |
| Predicting use of the Sacrifice Bunt in Major League Baseball | Sports | Charles Gallagher, Brian Gilbert, Neelay Mehta, Chao Rao | UMD | 2007 | Presentation | Report |
| Which Bank Should you Buy? | Finance, Loans & Insurance, Real-Estate | Eric Grant, Yasuo Mutsuura Xiaomin Shi, Omarr Tobias, Xiaoyu Zhang | UMD | 2007 | Presentation | Report |
| Comparing apartment ratings in DC vs. suburbs | Internet, Real-Estate | Jerome Lopez, Kenneth Ng, Sanjay Srivastava, Vishal Bhotika | UMD | 2006 | Presentation | |
| Online Dating | Internet, Social networks | Vivek Arora, Tawney Bains, Ekta Mittal, VikasTiwari, Vishwas | UMD | 2006 | Presentation | |
| Determining drivers of customer loyalty for eCommerce air travel booking | Customer Acquisition & Retention, eCommerce, Internet, Transportation | Andrew Lipscomb, Eric May, Gregory Dell’Orto, Meagan Boyce, Michael Melcer | UMD | 2006 | Presentation | |
| Characterizing ranked vs. unranked colleges & universities by US News & World Report | University Admissions & Rankings | Erik Anderson, Moshe Cohen, Melissa Moore, Ankur Saini | UMD | 2006 | Presentation | |
| Identifying frequent fliers most likely to respond to a mail offering | Customer Acquisition & Retention, Telecom, Transportation | Geoff Gray, Armando “Mannix” Litonjua, Matt McNamara, Tim Roach, Jason Thayer | UMD | 2005 | Presentation | |
| Explaining customer churn in a telecom company | Customer Acquisition & Retention, Telecom | Rodney Anderson, Tatyana Kramskaya, Peter Laanisto, Sunetra Mahajan, Harish Mysore | UMD | 2005 | Presentation | |
| Predicting Customer Churn For A Credit Card Company | Customer Acquisition & Retention, Finance, Loans & Insurance | Cecily Rekart, Craig Lowenstein, Crystal Trainor, Ernest Chrappah, Maieka Hansard | UMD | 2005 | Presentation | |
| Determining factors that lead to a quick sell of Arlington properties | Real-Estate | Monisha Banerjee, Megahn Hallahan, Dave Lake, Tyler Morris, Matt Welsh | UMD | 2005 | Presentation | |
| Comparing the demographics of home-owners vs. non home-owners | Real-Estate | Mamak Ashtari, Alexander Basilia, Chien-Ting Chen, Ashish Markanday, Santosh | UMD | 2005 | Presentation | |
| Analysis of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections | Politics & Law | David Alosi, Douglas Boyd, Adam Hughes, Jordan Lichman, Derek Vansant | UMD | 2005 | Presentation | |
| Predicting the outcome of malpractice lawsuits | Healthcare, Politics & Law | Andrea Chod, David Hofberg, John Jepsen, Christine Nguyen, Eric Zirofsky | UMD | 2005 | Presentation | |
| Understanding graduation rates of different undergraduate programs in the US | University Admissions & Rankings | Peter Glantzis, Kevin Jones, Edward Mengel | UMD | 2005 | Presentation | |
| Classification of sales opportunities for a software company | Customer Acquisition & Retention, Operations | Jeanne M. Russo, Daniel Rozas, Pablo Macouzet, Sriram Gandhi, Vino Babu | UMD | 2005 | Presentation | |
| Examining Telecommunications firm’s ability to provision circuits | Operations, Telecom | Nathan Birckhead, Hsiao-Yin Chen, Ki-Oung Son, Yan Sun | UMD | 2005 | Presentation | |
| Targeting frequent fliers most likely to respond to a mail offering | Customer Acquisition & Retention, Telecom, Transportation | Brad Barber, Andrew Choi, Michael Kilby, Jim Turner | UMD | 2004 | Presentation | |
| Profiling subscribers of a new medical journal: who is likely to renew? | Customer Acquisition & Retention | Ananthakrishnan, Santhosh Bakalov, Yassen Bakalova, Anna Iyer, Rakesh Parameswaran, Sindhu | UMD | 2004 | Presentation | |
| Analyzing factors related to vehicle accident analysis | Transportation | Amelie Brandenberg, Jason Dell, Donna Donella, Rama Reddy | UMD | 2004 | Presentation | |
| Understanding voting intensions in Chile | Government & Military | Jason Andrew, Carrie Boyle, Greg Fries, Ramana Reddy | UMD | 2004 | Presentation | |
| Understanding the determinants of mortgage loan approvals | Finance, Loans & Insurance, Real-Estate | Chris Baden, Nima Baradar, Dawn Bui, Curtis Hardrick, Subramanian Hariharan | UMD | 2003 | Presentation | |
| Factors explaining customer satisfaction in a computer-based testing company | Customer Acquisition & Retention, Operations | Vincia Francis, Lizmara Kirchner, Kyle Singleton, Wen-Chun Wu (deceased) | UMD | 2003 | Presentation | |
| Predicting on-time performance of flights | Transportation | Arzu Yesilova, Brad Peters, Irem Ataibis, Kanokporn Laochunsuwan, Sergio Iovanovich | UMD | 2003 | Presentation | |
| Comparing operating differences of male and female CEOs | Operations | Jay Bachman, Joseph Colca, Vainateya Deshpande, Sung Yang | UMD | 2003 | Presentation |