2022 Undergraduate Capstone Presentations

Event Date: 

Friday, May 27, 2022 - 11:30am to 1:30pm

Event Location: 

  • Corwin Pavilion

Event Price: 

Free and in-person

Event Contact: 

Join us for the 2022 Undergraduate Capstone presentation at UC Santa Barbara. Grab a slice of Woodstocks Pizza while you check out the culmination of three quarters of data science research. The event will run from 11:30 - 1:30 pm on May 27 at Corwin Pavilion. 
 
Data Science Fellows from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo will also present their capstone posters. UCSB and Cal Poly share a collaborative NSF grant aimed at promoting data science education at the California State University and University of California. 
 
 
List of projects/posters:
  • Big Bee: Hair Recognition & Quantification, sponsored by the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration.
  • Combining computer vision and satellite imagery to map center pivot irrigation, sponsored by UCSB's Earth Research Institute.
  • Compression of NLP-Domain Deep Learning Models, sponsored by Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC).
  • Deep image reconstruction from human brain activity, sponsored by UCSB's Perception, Cognition, and Action Lab.
  • Deep learning recommendation system for property management software, sponsored by AppFolio.
  • Demographic Predictors of Climate Opinion, sponsored by UCSB's Energy and Environment Transition Lab.
  • Identifying Elephant Seals from Aerial Images, sponsored by Cal Poly's Vertebrate Integrative Physiology Lab.
  • Impacts of a documentary: the social dilemma - analyzing changes in social media usage behavior, sponsored by the Center for Information Technology and Society.
  • Interactive spatio-temporal visualization of long-term physical characteristics of California coastal waters, sponsored by the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries.
  • Modeling Neurodegeneration with Single Cell RNA Sequencing, sponsored by UCSB's Neuroscience Research Institute.
  • Multi-class claims activity classification based on HTML data, sponsored by Carpe Data.
  • Polish Opposition Network Analysis, sponsored by Cal Poly's Data Science Initiative.
  • Product recommendation on scraped usage data, sponsored by HG Insights.
  • Quantifying Security - Visualizing Usability of Allthenticate, sponsored by Allthenticate.
  • Social Media and Public Health, sponsored by Cal Poly's Data Science Initiative.
  • Stock Market Analysis with Machine Learning, sponsored by Cal Poly's Data Science Initiative.
  • Stress indicators for frontline COVID-19 healthcare workers, sponsored by Evidation Health.
  • Wearables Predict Stress in Frontline Healthcare Workers, sponsored by Evidation Health.
For more information about the event, read an article in the UCSB Current by Sonia Fernandez. Or, visit the projects on the Central Central Coast Data Science website
 
2022 marks only the second time an undergraduate capstone course in data science has been taught at UCSB. The course is cross-listed as PSTAT 197 and CMPSC 190 and will run again in 2022-2023.

 

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