Brand new project ideas for Class of Spring 17

#1 Help insurance companies identify risky and cautious drivers

Develop a cloud service which could be integrated and used by Insurance companies to identify risky and cautious auto drivers. The service should have subscription based offering. The statistical and machine learning model would use driving records of various drivers (historical data) and predict a risky driving behavior

Develop a dashboard for Insurance data analyst to visualize and predict.

#2 A mobile dashboard (android tablet) to control all connected IoT devices in the house. 

This dashboard should allow control of lights, toaster oven, music player, thermostat or anything else connected via wifi in the house)

#3 Using gps and accelerometer data from mobile phone, predict tourist’s behavior (whether tourist will see a particular exhibit or visit a particular shop)

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-03973-2_9

#4 Employee demand & Churn forecasting

Employers deal with sudden demand for a particular skills and hard to find specially if they do not have competitive edge. This service will integrate with any HR system and provide demand and churn forecasting based on machine learning model. Model should suggest alternative strategies (including retraining and retooling existing employees ) based on various factors and market conditions. 

#5 Digital loyalty program app for small businesses

80% of small businesses (specially mom & pop) can not afford to have sophisticated program to collect customer data and make them return to their businesses repeatedly. This app allows coffee shops, local grocery vendors, barbers and hair salons to create a digital loyalty program for their visitors and customers. 

reference: http://www.bellycard.com/  Talk to me for more insights..

#6 Analytics driven data management in private and public cloud

Organize customer's data in on prem and cloud to manage and optimize for analytics and allow them to leverage for efficiency of the workload

#7 Freelancer platform for charitable electronic work

This platform will allow non-profit charitable organization to post their work which volunteers can pick and assign themselves. The work can be anything like, preparing a database, spreadsheet, tabulating, grading papers, etc..) once finished on time and correctly, volunteers can earn badges which can be showcased on Linkedin or facebook. 

#8 Blockchain enabled Real Estate transaction workflow
Real estate transaction is mostly paper based with tons of manual and laborious workflow. Blockchain can not only simplify it but bring trust and transparency in the process. 

#9 How engaged my employees are?
It's a well known fact that employee engagement paired with strong leadership is key to the success of any business. This is an analytics project to track the engagement of your employees. This includes mining your employee's social media interactions such as tweets, posts and generating score from the vocabulary used in those posts. Talk to me to know more about this...but here are the drivers of employee's engagement:

• Work processes
• Ethics and integrity
• Quality and customer focus 
• Immediate manager 
• Communication 
• Performance management 
• Work/life balance 
• Rewards (compensation and benefits) and recognition 
• Job security and career growth 
• Leadership and direction 
• Teamwork and cooperation 
• Training and development