SURE 2022 Project Showcase
Join us in highlighting and celebrating the 2022 Carnegie Mellon Statistics & Data Science Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program!
The Department of Statistics & Data Science offered an 8 week summer undergraduate experience this year with two themes: Data Science in Sports Analytics (aka CMSACamp) and CMU-Optum Bridges to Healthcare Data Science. While the applications are in sports and healthcare analytics, the program is focused on developing skills in statistical and data science methodology and being able to apply these skills to a wide range of problems and contexts. Professional skills development is also emphasized.
The program culminates in a final group project with external clients/advisors. Below you'll see reports created by the students detailing their work in this year's projects.
CMSACamp: Data Science in Sports Analytics
| Does Icing the Kicker Work in the NFL? (external partner: Ryan Elmore, University of Denver) Sierra Martinez (University of Oklahoma), Adriana Gonzalez Sanchez (Slippery Rock University) |
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| Identifying Defensive Coverage Types in NFL Tracking Data Vivek Shah |
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| Paying Players What They Are Worth (external partners: Katerina Wu and Caleb Pena, Pittsburgh Penguins) Hailey Sanaya Jensen (University of Texas at San Antonio), Eric Warren (North Carolina State University) |
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| Is Breanna Stewart the Lebron James of the WNBA? Developing WNBA and NBA Archetypes and Playstyle Comparisons (external partner: Maksim Horowitz, Atlanta Hawks) Amor Ai (Carnegie Mellon University), Mykalyster Homberg (Harvard University), Andrew Noecker (St. Olaf College) |
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| Determining the Critical Influences Affecting Offensive Outcomes of Shifted At-Bats (external partner: Adam Brodie, Houston Astros) Nicholas Esposito (University of Florida), Amber Potter (Duke University) |
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| Does Not Playing Hockey Make You Worse At Hockey? (external partner: Sam Ventura, Buffalo Sabres) Jacqueline Jovanovic (Elon University), Michele Sezgin (Smith College) |
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| A Regularized Adjusted Expected Goal Plus-Minus Model for Soccer (external partner: Kostas Pelechrinis, University of Pittsburgh) Edvin Tran Hoac (Wesleyan University), Phong Hoang (Denison University), Boyuan (Gary) Zhang (New York University) |
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CMU-Optum Bridges to Healthcare Data Science
| Predicting Factors that Lead to Drug and Alcohol Abuse MaKayla Moore (Winston-Salem State University) and Akwelle (Q) Quaye (Carnegie Mellon University) |
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| The Effects of Social and Economic Factors on Death, Health, and Survival Cameron Drayton (Carnegie Mellon University) and Foday Keita (Howard University) |
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| Premature Death Prediction Model Using Health Behavior Data Donald Dinerman (Carnegie Mellon University) and Suron Lockett (Tougaloo College) |
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