Wed Mar 24

SIMON INITIATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT MSP Team: Jenny Mao, Jinghao Huang,
Rebecca Pei

jinghao - intro

use pattern changes for instructors and students due to covid

jenny data (mainly usage data for her)

4 data files 29 tables each (2019-2020 semesters)

studnet demographics tutor use and exam scores

instructor activity

PPS -- Retention/Mobility MSP Team: Gloria Guo, Jenny Luo, Yuhang Ying



slide 5 spr 2020 bump

fall 2020 drops (sl 8 and 9)

jinghao chekcpoint scores data

sl 10 are these student curves?

shihua student perforance data (logins..)

spring logins higher than fall

still in data collection, cleaning, and variable selection






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NBA Research Project (Basketball) MSP Team: Andrew Liu, Reed Peterson,
Willis Lu


andrew - intro & data overview

 - bit unpracticed..

adjust +/-
is this a better predictor
can it account for team strength, coaching, ...

priors

contract data, team ratings...., webscraping

willis - more on the data - 538 data freely available, also some
methods illustration

slide 8 "elo rating"?  (like chess...)

reed - the shift data

834.com (?)

willis

linear regression / bayesian regression (pyMC3 package)

sl 14 - what did you use for priors for the skeletpn
how does the contract info get incorporated into priors

compare with simpler methids

compare with offense/defense ratings (or predict with +/-)




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PPS -- Retention/Mobility MSP Team: Gloria Guo, Jenny Luo, Yuhang Ying

Huiyi (Gloria)

intro - how does promise influence post secondary? any policy
implications?  what affects promise elegibility and use?

Yuhang

11 data sets!

lots fo data processing data cleaning joining etc

Huiyi

more on data

Jenny

even more data!

yuhang - methods

prelim eda

jenny - describe further eda

huiyi - scatter plots

blue red scatter plot on "results" slide
  - why are there blues outside the square?
  - they wil clarify...

jenny - barplots on demographic influences of promise

her first slide right graph - proportions might be better than counts

2nd slde - seriation on left?

right plot where is the data from ?  just votech?

jenny next steps

what is "the model" in orange circles?