Here are some more project ideas for Students:
- Small business advertisement channel - What is the best and most profitable advertising medium for a mom and pop business like coffee & donuts shop, a neighborhood dry cleaner, or a sushi restaurant?
small businesses have least amount of money for advertising so it has to be extremely effective. The app needs to figure out based on location, demography, business domain and sales data, which is the most optimized channel for advertising? is it local news paper ad, google ads, facebook, penny saver or something else?
This project requires building statistical model /or use R with social data analysis
2. An Android / iPhone app for matching household handyman jobs to contractors. - People need help post the job. contractors bid on them, customer chooses the right bidder (may not be lowest) you need to have a star rating system based on their past work and reviews (elance like system)
Job seekers can set and get alert when a job is posted in specific category, so they can bid from anywhere..
payment system is built in so when job gets done money is paid and platform gets a % cut in every deal.
3. Home invasion and Robbery data visualization - UCR http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/ucrdata/ publishes data about property crime. can you find city / county wise data and create cool visualization tool to highlight these types of property crimes. You can also relate this to property value in the market to show correlation.
4. Virtual Farmer's market - connect Healthy eaters with local farmers on virtual farmer's market. People order online and pick once or twice a week in designated neighborhood area or delivered fresh from farm with extra shipping either to your home / work. Benefit ? - guaranteed to local and fresh. This trend is also picking up in trendy technology startups. They tend to serve their employees organic fruits and other stuffs free at workplace.
5. Web based analytic tool framework - web framework where data scientists can drop their model(written in R or weka) , upload data and generate model output and visualize them. They can save the visualizations, and model output as well for further processing.
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