CSE 140 final projects, winter 2013

These are the final projects for the winter 2013 offering of CSE 140. The assignment asked students to use a real-world dataset to answer a scientific question. The projects were designed and written in a two-week period, by students who had learned to program in the previous two months.

Science

• Examining Decay Mechanisms of the Higgs Boson (report, slides)
• What makes H5N1 Avian influenza "Avian"? (Why not "H5N1 Tiger influenza"?) (report, slides)
• Genome analysis (report, slides)
• Visualizing disease and injury rates (report, slides)
• Spatial Variability in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in a Global Climate Model (report, slides)
• Distribution of protein simulations on machines (report, slides)
• Precipitation Prediction (report, slides)

Crime

• Baltimore Crime Trends (2008-2013) (report, slides)
• American Crime Rate Analysis from 1960 to 1999 (report, slides)

Economics

• Evaluating the effectiveness of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) (report, slides)
• Local Causes, Public Amenities, and Poverty Level (report, slides)
• Urban growth and unemployment (report, slides)
• Analysis of Unemployment Rates (report, slides)
• Utilizing employee data to optimize evaluation and wage systems (report, slides)
• Washington State Unemployment Rates (1990-2010) (report, slides)
• Predicting Stock Price Using Historical Financial Information (report, slides)
• Correlation Between GDP and Satellites Launched (report, slides)
• The 2007 USA Tax and Income dataset (report, slides)

Sports

• Correlation between statistics and wins in major league baseball (report, slides)
• Payroll and Success in Major League Baseball (report, slides)
• An Analysis of Baseball Statistics (report, slides)
• An Iterative Strength Based Model for the Prediction of NCAA Basketball Games (report, slides)
• Analyzing the LA Lakers' poor performance this season (report, slides)
• Shift in the Game, and a look at phenomenon in the NBA (report, slides)
• NFL QB stats Calculations (report, slides)

Flight delays

• Airplane Delay Analysis (report, slides)
• Flight Delay Data Analysis (report, slides)
• Best Airline of the Month (report, slides)

Social networking and games

• Douban and Weibo followee analysis (report, slides)
• World of Warcraft Character Dataset (report, slides)
• Reddit username analysis (report, slides)
• The Internet and Current Issues (report, slides)