project proposal

This week, you will submit your data mining project proposal. Below is a list of samples you may choose from to use for your project. You may also pitch your own idea for analysis. Instructions for the Project Proposal follow the samples. The Project Proposal is due on Sunday by 11:59 PM CT and can be submitted here. Note: If you are working in a group, each member of the project team needs to submit the assignment.

Sample Data Mining Projects:

· Overall Car Evaluation Based On Various Specifications

· Spam Filtering

· Favored Contraceptive Methods

· Who is Most Likely to Smoke

· Analysis of Caffeine Intake and Lifestyle of University Students 

· Gender and Generations: Looking at Age and Income based on Social and Political Opinions

· Mining Major League Baseball (or other sport of choice)

· Breast Cancer Recurrence

· Predicting Quantifiable Forest Fires using Data Mining 

· Scooby-Doo: Where are You? : Examining the Dogs of New York City

· Drafting the Perfect Running Backs- Predicting Seasonal Performance Changes 

· Predicting Meteorite Landings

· Mining who Survived on the Titanic 

· Micro-Loans: Predicting if Loan is Approved and Predicting Interest Rate of Loan

· Are there differences between religious and non-religious US Universities 

· Shelter Animal Adoption: a look at characteristics that predict pet adoption

· AirBnb Prices

· Undergraduate Student GPA

· Mining E-sport Team Performance at the League of Legends World Championship

· IMDB Movie Review Sentiment Analysis

Project Proposal 

Your project proposal must be typed, and it should be approximately one page long, single spaced. The purpose of the proposal is to make sure that you are on the right track and to give me enough information so that I can give you useful feedback. You may choose to work alone for this project or you may choose to work with another student. You do not need my permission to work with one other student, but if you are working with two or more students, you must get my approval (which I will only grant for very ambitious projects). If you wish to work in a group, you will need to determine your group members by the time you submit your proposal in Module 5. Only one member of the group will need to submit both the proposal and final project. If you need to request permission for a larger group, please reach out to me via your NLU email no later than Module 4 in order to ensure you have time to choose another topic. Provide the following items in your proposal:

· Preliminary title and list of students working on the project (if you are working with someone else)

· Abstract: This should be similar to the abstract that will ultimately appear in your paper. It should be one paragraph long. It should provide a high-level summary of your project and outline your main goals. 

· Brief description of what you plan to do

· What problem are you trying to solve?

· How do you formulate the problem as a data warehousing and data mining problem? What exactly are you trying to learn from the data and how will you evaluate your results?

· What data do you plan to use? If you must do significant work to get the data or convert it into the proper format, then describe the process and approximate effort required. Provide a summary of what your data looks like.