Articles by Edwin Back

Updated: Jun 8, 2020

Upgrade Everything But the Kitchen Sink?

Introduction

by Pengyun Liu

Updated: May 24, 2020

What's for Dinner? - a web scraping project

To do data analysis, we first need to have data. There is a vast amount of...

by Lu Yu

Student Works R Shiny Shiny Dashboard

Updated: May 18, 2020

Goodreads Data Analysis Project

by Swarup Malli

Updated: May 17, 2020

Market Research Analysis for Restaurant Expansion

Introduction In the modern age of globalization, international cuisines...

by Mohamad Sayed

Updated: May 3, 2020

NYC Jail (Rikers) COVID-19 Infection Rate Compared to NYC and NYS

by Sundus Seif

Updated: May 1, 2020

Effectiveness of sail racing handicaps

Background Sailing is not only a way to enjoy a sunny, windy day but is a...

by Doug Devens

Updated: Feb 27, 2020

An Analysis of Video Game Popularity.

Curiosity: Ever since I was little I have always enjoyed the sheer thrill...

by Jason Hoffmeier

python Web Scraping Student Works python web scraping

Updated: Feb 18, 2020

Scrapping google scholar. Toward Epistemological dynamics of Machine Learning.

When you want to become a datascientist, you may face the same feeling as...

by Baptiste Mokas

R Shiny

Updated: Feb 16, 2020

Marketing Effectiveness Analysis

Background This project aims to help a CPG brand to discover the sales...

by Marina Ma

R Data Visualization Student Works R Shiny Data Analyst

Updated: Feb 6, 2020

R Shiny - Exploring Global Plastic Pollution

by Fred (Lefan) Cheng

Updated: Feb 3, 2020

Medicinal Herbs Analysis

Introduction We have been relying on and using herbs to perpetuate healthy...

by Lilliana Nishihira

pandas python Web Scraping Selenium

Updated: Feb 3, 2020

Scraping Tripadvisor: Finding the Best Bargains

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by Edwin Back

Updated: Jan 7, 2020

Community Support and Academic Performance -- What's The Connection?

The R Shiny application discussed in this article can be found here.

by Sammy Dolgin

Updated: Oct 21, 2019

Visualizing 20 years of IMF bailouts

by Fatema Soliman

Updated: Oct 19, 2019

Uncovering What Makes a Great Running Shoe? Scraping Zappos

Motivation:

by Stephen Oakey

Web Scraping Student Works python web scraping

Updated: Oct 18, 2019

StockX - Exploring the New Age of Reselling

by Zhu Wang

Updated: Sep 25, 2019

Scraping eBay using BeautifulSoup in Python

Even though Amazon is the leader in e-commerce marketplaces – eBay still...

by Sandra Moraes

Updated: Aug 11, 2019

NYC Street Trees

Introduction How many trees are there in New York City? and what kind of...

by KISOO CHO

Updated: Jul 29, 2019

USNews Rankings Analysis

Introduction

by Luke Gray

by Shailendra Dhondiyal, CFA, FRM

Updated: Jun 12, 2019

Regenerate the "Kitkat" to Predict House Prices

by Yicong Zhao

Machine Learning

Updated: Jun 7, 2019

Predicting Housing Prices in Ames, Iowa using Advanced Machine Learning Techniques

Introduction: Buying a house in today’s economy is an expensive...

by Christopher Castano

R Visualization R Shiny

Updated: Jun 7, 2019

Visualizing Economic Freedom Index: 2014-2019

Economic freedom or economic liberty is the ability of people of a society...

data science API visualization python Web Scraping APIs Scrapy

Updated: Jun 3, 2019

Quantify Music and Audio

Introduction Music can be everywhere. When we are waking up, during...

by Youngmin Paul Cho

Web Scraping Scrapy python webscraping

Updated: Jun 2, 2019

Energy generation trends under Trump: A web scraping project

Has the inauguration of President Donald Trump had an effect on US...

by Sam Collier

data science Machine Learning python prediction Capstone Student Works nlp

Updated: Jan 23, 2019

Using NLP to Classify Articles about Intimate Partner Violence

Objective For my capstone project, I worked with a group of other students...

by Sean Justice

R R Visualization R Shiny

Updated: Oct 22, 2018

Exploring Known Exoplanets with R Shiny

Background Exoplanet (meaning a planet that orbits a star other than the...

by John Bentley

Machine Learning Web Scraping Capstone Student Works

Updated: Oct 20, 2018

Which Industry to Work For?

The Goal - Find best industry to work for There are many factors that are...

by Jiwon Cha

Updated: Sep 24, 2018

Forecasting Cryptocurrency Price Trends

1. Introduction

by Jinsoo Kim

R Machine Learning R Visualization Student Works

Updated: Aug 30, 2018

Predicting House Prices with Machine Learning Models and Algorithms

Background Objective

by Michael

Updated: Aug 15, 2018

Stories from YouTube Trend Video

As more and more people start to watch and upload videos on the YouTube,...

by Shiyu Li

R NYC regression Machine Learning Kaggle prediction Student Works feature engineering XGBoost lasso regression

Updated: Jul 2, 2018

Credit Card Approval Analysis

Preface: The decision of approving a credit card or loan is majorly...

by Kiranmayi Rane

R NYC R Visualization visualization Student Works Shiny R Shiny yelp

Updated: May 18, 2018

NYC restaurants reviews and inspection scores

by Akshay Vaghani

statistics R NYC Student Works

Updated: May 12, 2018

Transactional Cost on High Frequency Trading

Special thanks to my great teammate, Qiang Ji.

by Nan(Lainey) Liu

R Data Visualization NYC R Visualization Kaggle Maps Student Works R Programming Shiny R Shiny

Updated: May 7, 2018

Meteorites

Meteors are small pieces of space debris that fall down on the Earth every...

by Dragos Ilas

statistics R Data Visualization NYC python Web Scraping data Scrapy Student Works Shiny R Shiny

Updated: Feb 18, 2018

Cost of Living Estimator

Introduction

by Raj Tiwari

R dplyr Data Visualization NYC R Visualization visualization prediction data Maps Student Works Shiny R Shiny

Updated: Feb 6, 2018

From Visualizing NYC 2017 House Sales Data To Postulating Its Thermodynamics Theory

This project aims to (1) visualize the patterns of NYC 2017 house sales in...

by James Chen

statistics R Data Visualization NYC R Visualization visualization data Student Works Shiny R Shiny

Updated: Feb 4, 2018

Exploratory Data Analysis of CRE Valuation Metrics

Introduction

by Raj Tiwari

R Data Visualization NYC regression Machine Learning visualization Kaggle prediction data Student Works

Updated: Dec 15, 2017

Team Machine Learning Project

A quick introduction

by Benjamin Roberts

statistics R NYC Web Scraping data Student Works Selenium Shiny R Shiny beautiful soup

Updated: Oct 17, 2017

Scraping Forbes and RateMyProfessors to Create a College Recommendation App

College Recommendation App I created a web application using data...

by Will Markowitz

R NYC regression linear regression Machine Learning Kaggle prediction data XGBoost gbm random forest

Updated: Sep 19, 2017

Zillow Prize: Competing to Improve the Zestimate

Introduction

by Katie Critelli

R clustering NYC regression linear regression python prediction Capstone Student Works lasso regression AWS

Updated: Jun 27, 2017

Forecasting Economic Risk in the EU into 2020

by Jack Yip

Updated: Jun 11, 2017

Kaggle's Allstate claims severity data challenge

Kaggle had a competition called Allstate claims severity. Allstate...

by Tariq Khaleeq

R NYC Sports Web Scraping Maps Shiny R Shiny

Updated: May 21, 2017

Scraping Mobafire for the best champion.

E-sports have gained a lot of popularity in the last few years. League of...

by Tariq Khaleeq

statistics R NYC visualization Student Works Shiny

Updated: Apr 14, 2017

Global Life Expectancy Explorer: What happened when the floor dropped out?

Robert Frost, one of the great American poets of the early twentieth...

by J. K.

R NYC neural network python prediction Web Scraping Capstone Student Works Selenium nlp

Updated: Apr 5, 2017

Event-Driven Stock Prediction

by Scott Edenbaum

R NYC Machine Learning Kaggle prediction Capstone Student Works XGBoost airbnb random forest

Updated: Apr 2, 2017

Predict where you would go for your next travel destination

Introduction

by Yaxiong Huang

API R NYC neural network Machine Learning python prediction APIs Capstone Scrapy Flask

Updated: Mar 30, 2017

likePredict: A product to predict "likes" of an Instagram Post

Instagram “likes” Impose a Problem.

by Kyle Gallatin

NYC Web Scraping Maps Student Works recommendation system

Updated: Feb 20, 2017

New York City Menu Items - Web Scraping

Introduction

by Daniel Epstein

data science statistics word cloud NYC visualization python Web Scraping R Shiny Shiny Dashboard beautiful soup

Updated: Feb 18, 2017

2016 in songs on Germany's most popular radio station

Introduction This post is about the second of the four projects we are...

by Stefan Heinz

Web Scraping Student Works python web scraping

Updated: Feb 17, 2017

"Jeopardy!" Sabermetrics

America's Favorite Trivia Game “Jeopardy!” is America's longest-running...

by David Letzler

Machine Learning R Visualization python Web Scraping Capstone Student Works Flask recommendation system

Updated: Jan 7, 2017

NINKASI: Beer Recommender System

Click here for the Ninkasi Web App

by Alex Yuan Li

data science clustering python NYC Open Data Web Scraping Scrapy Student Works

Updated: Dec 21, 2016

National Park Web Scraping

Contributed by Wann-Jiun Ma. He is currently attending the NYC Data...

by Wann-Jiun Ma

regression Machine Learning Kaggle prediction Student Works XGBoost lasso regression random forest Neural networks

Updated: Dec 5, 2016

Kaggle: Predicting Allstate Auto Insurance Severity Claims

Introduction

by Nelson Chen

data science Machine Learning Kaggle Student Works XGBoost Neural networks

Updated: Dec 4, 2016

Kaggle: Allstate Insurance

Background For this project our dataset was selected for us. Since it was...

by Frederick Cheung

Machine Learning Web Scraping Student Works python scrapy

Updated: Nov 21, 2016

Metrics and Missingness in High School

Introduction Parents greatly value their children's education, and heavily...

by Jason Sippie

Updated: Nov 6, 2016

Explorify: Visualize Your Playlists

The digital age has fundamentally changed the way we consume media, and in...

by Joshua Litven

Updated: Nov 6, 2016

HospiView: Visualizing Hospital Associated Infections

Introduction Hospital Associated Infection (HAI) typically result in...

by Nathan Stevens

R Visualization

Updated: Oct 22, 2016

Clicks and Grades: Relationship Between Student Interactions With A Virtual Learning Environment and Outcomes

Introduction The recent growth in online courses has led to an increase in...

by Nathan Stevens

R Machine Learning Web Scraping Capstone Student Works

Updated: Sep 23, 2016

Predicting The Road Accident Fatality Likelihood

Introduction:

by Venkatesh Subramaniam

Featured Capstone Student Works

Updated: Sep 22, 2016

The Restaurant Dilemma: Personalized Recommendations for Groups of People

You want to go out to eat with a friend but sifting through restaurant...

by David Richard Steinmetz

Updated: Aug 8, 2016

Analysis on 20 years US Air Traffic by Airports from 1990 to 2009

Introduction: This project is linked to my last project which is...

by Yunrou Gong

R Visualization NYC Open Data Student Works

Updated: Aug 6, 2016

From the Vine to the Bottle: a California Wine App in Shiny

Contributed by Tyler Knutson. He is currently enrolled in the NYC Data...

by Tyler Knutson

R R Visualization Student Works

Updated: Jul 22, 2016

Visualizing the relationship between infant mortality rates & resource availability

Introduction We know that war and civil unrest account for a significant...

by Sharan Duggal

Capstone Student Works

Updated: Jul 2, 2016

Predicting Events During a Hockey Game

Contributed by Steven Ginsberg.He is currently in the NYC Data Science...

by Steven Ginzberg

Capstone Student Works

Updated: Jun 30, 2016

Caterpillar Tube Assembly Pricing

Contributed by by Adam Cone and Ismael Cruz. They are currently in the NYC...

by Adam Cone

R Capstone Student Works

Updated: Jun 30, 2016

Network Intrusion Detection

Project initiated by Joseph Wang and contributed equally by Wanda Wang,...

by Ho Fai Wong

Updated: Jun 29, 2016

NYC Vision Zero - Has this initiative improved the overall road safety ?

by Nanda Rajarathinam

data science R Machine Learning Kaggle Student Works R Programming XGBoost gbm random forest Neural networks

Updated: Jun 10, 2016

Higgs Boson Machine Learning Challenge

Contributed by by Belinda Kanpetch, Taraqur Rahman, Steven Ginzberg and...

by Belinda Kanpetch

R Student Works R Shiny

Updated: May 16, 2016

FHFA Home Mortgage Data Insights

Contributed by Radhey Shyam. He is currently in the NYC Data Science...

by Radhey Shyam

R Data Visualization NYC NYC Open Data Student Works Shiny R Shiny

Updated: May 13, 2016

Cultural Institutions of New York City

Contributed by Rob Castellano. He is currently in the NYC Data Science...

by Rob Castellano

R Machine Learning Student Works

Updated: Mar 22, 2016

Forest Cover Type Machine Learning Study

Contributed by Aravind Kolumum Raja and Thomas Kolasa. They are currently...

by Thomas Kolasa

Machine Learning Student Works

Updated: Mar 22, 2016

Take Me Out to the Ballgame: Predicting MLB Attendance (with Web Scraping & Shiny)

Contributed by Michael Todisco. He is currently in the NYC Data Science...

by Michael Todisco

R R Visualization Student Works

Updated: Mar 7, 2016

Networks of Film Makers

Contributed by Christopher Redino. He is currently in the NYC Data Science...

by Christopher Redino

R Student Works R Shiny

Updated: Feb 16, 2016

Investigating Airport Connectedness

Contributed by Sricharan Maddineni. He is currently in the NYC Data...

by Sricharan Maddineni

Updated: Dec 6, 2015

Restaurant Reviews as Foodborne Illness Indicators

Contributed by Brain Saindon. He took NYC Data Science Academy 12 week...

by Brian Saindon

R R Visualization Student Works

Updated: Oct 8, 2015

Homelessness in America

Photo credit: nkbimages vis Getty Images

by Jake Lehrhoff

Updated: Jul 22, 2015

Best Values for Grocery Shopping

Best Values for Grocery Shopping. Price analysis at Keyfood, CTown and...

by Xavier

Updated: Jul 15, 2015

R And The Search For Another Earth

R And The Search For Another Earth Intro

by Korrigan Clark