FinalProjectPitches

Deposit here a brief description of each final project that is proposed as an .md file

Please provide a title (use it for the .md file as well)

A sentence describing the objective and methods

A list of existing team members

An indication if additional members are welcome and, if relevant, what kind of expertise you are looking for

Sales Pitch by the end of XXX

• The purpose is to recruit a team for the final project
• Not everyone is expected to produce the pitch
• Prepare a sales pitch (on your own or in a group) if you really feel strong about the topic

Groups selected by XXX

Proposal is to be prepared by XX EOC (End of Class)

• The group needs to submit a project proposal (1.5-2 pages in IEEE format (see https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/preparation-of-papers-for-ieee-sponsored-conferences-and-symposia/zfnqfzzzxghk).
• The proposal should provide
  • an objective
  • a brief motivation
  • detailed discussion of the data that will be obtained or used in the project,
  • responsibilities of each member, along with
  • a time-line of milestones, and
  • the expected outcome
• The proposal pdf will be committed to fdac21/ProjectName/proposal.pdf

Notes

• Final project does not need to have an equal emphasis on the dimensions of discovery, retrieval, storage, cleaning, analysis/operation

• It could go deep in one of the areas, preferably the area you most care about.

• The final result could be a working application or an analysis with the following artifacts

  1. Presentation to the class in late Nov
  2. A short (4-6 page research paper) describing new method, insight or a working application

Below is a list of potential topics where a research mentor is available

Potential projects

AIS data

Vessel traffic data, or Automatic Identification System (AIS) data https://marinecadastre.gov/ais/

COVID 19

Dear Audris Mockus -

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Anyone with a love of data (and/or design!) is welcome to apply!

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Sources of data to inspire or to be used in the final project

• 14K REST APIs for all sorts of stuff: http://www.programmableweb.com/

• Twitter, Facebook, etc, see Mining-the-Social-Web-2nd-Edition

• Weather: http://openweathermap.org/api

A compilation of sources (a lot of overlap):

• http://blog.visual.ly/data-sources/

• https://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-large-datasets-open-to-the-public

• http://readwrite.com/2008/04/09/where_to_find_open_data_on_the

• http://www.smartdatacollective.com/bernardmarr/235366/big-data-20-free-big-data-sources-everyone-should-know

• http://blog.bigml.com/2013/02/28/data-data-data-thousands-of-public-data-sources/

• https://datafloq.com/public-data/

Types of data that may be worth collecting for cybersecurity topics

• http://www.secureworks.com/resources/blog/5-valuable-contextual-data-sources-for-small-businesses/

• Honeypot: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/10168/setting-up-a-honeypot

More traditional data sources: spreadsheets

• Government: http://www.data.gov/

• Finance: http://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/141/what-data-sources-are-available-online

• Data mining-related: http://www.kdnuggets.com/datasets/index.html

• Health care: http://www.ahrq.gov/research/data/dataresources/index.html

• Arts: http://arts.gov/grants-organizations/research-art-works/publicly-available-data-sources