✨ Final Project Showcase
EECS 398 at the University of Michigan
All students in Practical Data Science are required to complete a Final Project, in which they perform an in-depth investigation into a dataset of their choosing and exercise all stages of the data science lifecycle, from exploratory data analysis to predictive model building. Students could choose one of three default datasets, or propose their own.
Below, you’ll find the websites for each submission, organized by semester and dataset choice.
Winter 2025
Power Outages 🔋
Forecasting Power Outage Duration with Predictive Models
Gideon Shaked
How Long Will This Power Outage Last?
Grace Liu
Predicting the Reach of Power Outages
Tyler Ditmars, Neha Pinnu
GridLock: Predicting Power Outage Durations
Kiran Chandrasekaran
Can we predict the cause category of a major power outage?
Ava Stravato
Power Outage Prediction and Cause Analysis
Anvita Gollu
Power Outage Analysis for Life Saving Medicine
Taylor Nguyen, Priya Shah
Power Outages Analysis
Harry Vieth
Can we predict how a power outage occurred right when it happened?
Mark Mitu
Can you predict power outage duration?
Dylan Babitch
What Effects How Long a Power Outage Lasts?
Michael Rubio
Shockingly Predictable: Forecasting Outage Duration
Lauren May, Julia Rehring
Predicting cause of outage from Power Outage data in U.S.
Miles Fichtner
Predicting outage duration from the urban population and economic characteristics of the region?
Rongxuan Tian
Predicting Power Outage Duration in the U.S.
Spence Lowery
Power Outage Predictor
Arnav Khanna, Govind Narayanan
What Characteristics are Associated with High Power Outage Length?
Lisa Dai
Weather Causing Power Outages… How Long Will It Last?
Preston Jackson
# Analyzing U.S. Power Outages (2000-2016): Patterns, Impacts, and Insights
Siavash Azar
Can Power Outages Predict Your Monthly Electricity Bill?
Hektor Buqaj
Predicting Outage Duration the Moment It Starts
Biplav Kharel
Recipes and Ratings 🍽️
Predicting What Makes Food.com Recipes 5-Star Hits
Arinjoy Das
Quick Fix or Healthy Mix?
Carolina Mondragon, Sanya Chawla
I’m starving, how long is dinner gonna take?
Malik Alabbas
Calorie Counter: What Impacts a Recipe’s Calorie Count?
Jamila Nagarwala, Mehek Gupta
Predicting Cooking Time Based on Different Recipe Features
Annice Chang and Courtney Selle
Will People Like this Recipe?
Aidan McKiernan
best minutes and steps for a recipe?
Hao Shen
What determines the average rating of a recipe?
Ethan Mui, Daniel Yang
Meals in Minutes: Predicting Prep Time with Nutritional Insights
Meghana Paruchuri and Rishitha Talluri
Behind the Bite: What Drives Calories in Recipes?
Anusha Chinthamaduka
Protein Prediction Model🍗
Kevin Zhang
How does text analysis help identify high rated recipes?
Colin Czarnik, Arthur Yang
Can recipe nutrition and complexity predict a 5-star meal?
Logan McKeown
What is the link between Cook Time and the number of ingredients and steps in a recipe?
Claire Keegan
How Many Calories Are Really in That Recipe?
Aayush Sharma
What types of recipes tend to have higher average ratings? - Predict recipe rating
Lucy Piao
Nutritional Insights: Predicting Calories in Recipes
Joyce Ku
What Makes a Recipe Shine?
Tingyi Xiao
What Factors Influence Recipe Ratings?
Emily Lin
Quick Bites or Slow Feasts? Analyzing Calories vs. Cooking Time
Chinyere Amasiatu
How Long Will This Take?
Maddie Coe
Is it Worth Making Long Recipes?
Dylan Pham, Andrew Lezaja
# What is the relationship between recipe characteristics (e.g prep-time, ingredients, calories) and user-given ratings?
Sundara Vishnu Satish
What truly defines a dish?
Alyssa Rodriguez
What Do We Think of the Recipes?
Tawseef Rahman
Masala to Metrics
Anjika Jain, Riya Bhivare
Building a Cook’s Intuition for Time
Michael Chen, Edison Zhou
What will my recipe be rated on food.com?
Dhruv Kapur, Manan Shah
Bite-Sized Insights: Exploring What Makes Recipes Shine
Emma Linhart
5 Star Analysis of Recipe Ratings
Achyudt Narayanan Venkat
How-does-nutrition-influence-food-ratings?
Ehsan Kabeer
Exploring Recipes dataset via Random Forest
Xiangzhi Jiang
High or Low? Predict Recipes Rating with Complexity & Nutritional Health Information
Tianxin (Jessica) Li, Zhicong Chen
League of Legends ⌨️
Forecasting Victory: 2024 League of Legends Worlds Matches Predictions
Jiahao Cheng
Which Arcane Sister is the Best?
Eric Teng, Ryan Wei
Can Early Leads Guarantee Wins? A Snowballing Analysis in League of Legends
Adam Boxwalla
Does laning-phase creep-score(CS) really predict winning outcome over kills?
Hyun(Michael) Kim
Checkpoint Champion – Predicting Winners at 25
Yunjong (Kevin) Na, Xingzhi Cui
Does an Early Lead Decide the Game?
Thamim Hussain
League of Legends Role Analysis
Trey Wayment
League of Legends: the affect of Team Composition on Win Rate
Marc Rosenberg
Can we predict the length of a League of Legends game?
Jawad Najar, Ali Boussi
Analyzing Player Positions in League of Legends
Jackson Eggerd
How does first blood impact the chances of winning a League of Legends match?
Aditya Bhatt
Know Your Role: Predicting League of Legends Roles from Player Stats
Vinh Tran, CC Ly
Can Time, Money, and Experience Determine Wins in League of Legends?
William Zheng
League of Legends Early Game Win Rate Prediction
Daniel Ried
Do you want to go pro in League of Legends? Focus on these Features.
Amy Liu, Priya Gutta
League of Legends Stat Difference Implications
Ena Mestry
Dominating League
Jack Kruger
Predicting Match Results based on Team-Aggregate Game State at 20 Minutes
Wenjia Lu, Anthony Sun
League Of Legends FF at 15?
Zijie Xu
Are League Games Decided at 20 Minutes, Even in Pro Play?
Vincent Shen
Do Junglers Really Deserve the Blame?
Touma Yoneyama
Custom Dataset 🎨
Train Slow to Race Fast
Jonathan Ding
Predicting Shot Success in Professional Basketball
Justin Wong
A Nation’s Happiness - Quantified via Life Expectancy
Abby Schultz, Mariana Ceballos
Can Data Win Your Fantasy League?
Vidit Tiwari, Navdeep Sirigiri
Who Will Win? A Data-Driven Analysis of ATP Tennis Match Prediction
Mehmet Malik Tekin
Glass Forecast: Predicting NBA Rebound Totals by Game
Micah Rubin
How can Airbnb most accurately predict the price of a newly added unit?
Will Duggan
Empire Estimator: Predicting NYC Airbnb Rates
Emily Tran
Predicting Democratic Vote Share in Michigan Municipalities
Justin Smith
A Data-Driven Look at VC Fundraising
Kuhoo Bairwal
Who is the ATP Superstar?
Jeremy Moon, Pranav Varshney
Job Loss Metrics in the Tech Industry
Jonathan Kertawidjaja, Philip Hadiwidjaja
Shotgun vs. Under Center: An NFL Play-by-Play Analysis
Andrew Wilks-Millard
Boston Fare-casting
Ken Fukutomi
What is the projected delay of your Delta flight?
Julia Klepko
Fall 2024
Power Outages 🔋
Analyzing and Predicting Lengthy Power Outages: Insights from Data and Model Development
Michael Boze, Daniel X He
Estimating Power Outage Duration With Scikit-Learn and Pandas DataFrames
Silvia Deyarmond
What Makes Power Outages Last?
Andre Gala-Garza
What Causes Severe Outages?
William Czech
a initial prediction of outrage duration at the first minutes of the outrage
hanlongl, Chengrui Liu
Can we Predict the Duration of a Power Outage?
Alex Collier
Major Power Outage Risk Analysis
Spencer Goodwin
What Factors Effect Power Outage Duration?
Jordyn Ives, Dan Nguyen
The Impact of Economic Activity and Urban Clustering Metrics on a State’s Total Energy Sales
Hana Ahmed, Aditya Ashok
Predicting Power Outage Duration: An Exploratory Analysis
Alyssa O’Brien, Lena Elkoussy
Predicting Power Outage Duration and Severity
Jackson Gertner
No Power For How Long???
Andrew Zhou
Analyzing Power Outages: A Regional Exploration
Maya Segal
Utilities Industry in the US: Risk factors and Predictive Modeling
Oliver Pourmussa
How long will the power be out?
David Lisbonne
Power Outage Exploration Journey
HANGXUAN XIE
Can widespread data predict widespread outages?
Katherine Bednarz
Predicting Power Outage Severity
Rachel Boeke
Power Outages and Restoration Time
Karsin Dass, Cole Doyle
Can we predict the number of customers affected based on the cause and duration of the outage?
Hae In Lee
Extreme Weather & Major U.S. Power Outages
Jack Hu
Does how much you pay for electricity impact how soon your power outage is addressed?
Aileen Gonzalez
Power-Outage-Prediction
Yihan Guo, Sirui Chen
What Caused This Power Outage?
Toma Hentes
Which factors that influence the cost of a power outage?
Adam Simpson
Recipes and Ratings 🍽️
Calorie & Protein Insights for Recipes
Vijay Ravi
Rate My Plate - Predicting Recipe Ratings
Divya Agarwal
Why McNuggets always have 5-star Ratings?
Fang Yu
Can recipe complexity predict its rating
Alan X
Predicting the rate of the recipes
Kai
Dishes to Data
Taemin Kim, Darren Dong
Cooking Time, Calories, and Ratings: The Secret Ingredients of Recipe Success
John Pan
Dish Decipher
Abhi Attaluri, Salil Kothari
What do you think it should be rated?
Daniel Leifer, Liam Herron
Recipes Analysis
Sammy Baumstein
Recipe Classifier
Zifei Bai
Hold On, Let Me Cook: Wait, How Long Will This Recipe Take?
Aditi Kashi, Anish Kudupudi
Recipe Nutrition Analysis
Ilan Breines
Recipe Success: Can You Predict Recipe Ratings Before You Cook?
Nick Vinokour, Joseph Adelman
The Flavor of Ratings: Exploring Nutrition’s Role in Recipe Popularity
Lena Bibbo, Grace Coppola
How many calories are in your dish?
Sravani Dash
Predicting the Perfect Recipe
Finley Gordon
Does a Recipe’s Complexity Influence its Rating?
William Ritchie
Macro Regressor
Advay Singh
What Affects How Long a Recipe Takes to Complete?
Shweta Kumar
Please-give-me-a-five-star-rating
Chengjun Ma
Recipes: What makes a recipe ‘healthy’?
Jade VanHaitsma, Megan Bowen
Statistical Analysis of Nutrients of Food and Their Taste
Jason Majoros
From the Contributors to the Calories: An Exploration of Recipes
Rakesh Krishnan
What factors influence recipe ratings?
Ashna Mulchandani
Automatic Recipe Tagging with Machine Learning
Andrew Young
The Secret Sauce of Five-Star Recipes
Becca Fu, Wayne Yang
What types of recipes tend to have the most calories?
Wenxuan Guo
Data on the Menu: Understanding What Makes a Recipe Shine
Hanlu Wu, Xiulin Chen
Analyzing Recipes and Cuisines: An analysis of cuisines and other factors from a large recipes dataset
Kavya Narayan, Rhys Burman
Recipe for Success: Predicting the Number of Steps in Recipes on Food.com
Matthew Yeh
Can Nutrition Predict Recipe Ratings?
Lucero Toral
Predicting Recipe Ratings: Know Your Recipe’s Rating Before Cooking
Mingqian Ma
Praise, Protein, & Predictions
Jad Alaoui Fdili
Calculating Calorie Counts: An Online Recipe Analysis
Annie He
Predicting Your Plate
Megha Sharma, Akanksha Rai
Whisking Through Data for Scrumptious Calorie Predictions
Abby VeCasey, Souma Mitra
The Recipe for Ratings: A Journey Through Predictive Modeling
Aparna Sarma
Exploring Recipe Data: What Drives Calorie Content?
Angela Li
Taste or Waste?
Christopher Shang, In Lorthongpanich
An Investigation Into What Makes Recipes Good
Michael Fabian
Recipe Analysis
Mundar Chen
What Affects Preparation Time?
Melissa Barbat, Manu Anand
Predicting Recipe Steps: An Analysis of Food.com Recipes
Anay Moitra, Naman Jain
Cooking Up Calories: Predicting Recipe Nutrition with Data Science
Téa Hajratwala, Devdeep Rajpal
Are your online recipes even healthy?
Ryan Stephen
Reasoning Recipe Ratings
Sydney Belt
How do people rate recipes?
Grace Gao, Faith Jones
food-recipe-insights
Jennie Li
League of Legends ⌨️
League of Legends Match Outcome Predictor
Howard Chen
Predicting Match Outcomes in League of Legends: A Data-Driven Approach
Donna Pham
EarlyEdge: League of Legends Tempo vs. Value Objective Statistical Analysis
Dennis Lin
League of Legends: Which Roles Drive Team Success?
Meghna Mahesh
How Do In-Game Statistics Affect Your Win-Rate?
Aksheet Dutta, Cliff Chang
League of Legends Position Performance Analysis
Sabit Islam, Anthony Brunswick
League of Legends Map Control Statistical Analysis
Lynn Jegal
League of Legends Game Decided at 25?
Dawson Dolby
Classifcation of League Legends Match Outcomes after 10 Minutes
Calvin Chou
How big is League of Legends snowball effect?
Nathan Ouyang
What is the Role of the Roles in League of Legends?
Nicholas Han
The Role of Roles in League of Legends
Ethan Hardy
Is this game winnable?
Ashley Chen
Do Junglers Matter?
Neeran Bari
Custom Dataset 🎨
Performance predictions in TB-HIV
Reeva Faisal
Nvidia: The Tech Titan of Summer ‘24
Zachary Taglia
How do I win a Pickleball Point?
Maxwell Cooper, Caleb Hyun
Predicting Raid Success: Forecasting Raid Damage with Player Analytics
Katelyn Ha
The Status of Electric Vehicles in Washington
Merjem Memic
Analysis of Homocysteine as a Biomarker for Cardiovascular Disease Among Non-Smokers
Amber Campbell
Predicting Political Leaning using Social Network States
Omkar Nayak, Phoebe Yi
Predicting an NBA Player’s Points in the Next Game
Wilson Chay
Driven to Discover: An Exploratory Data Analysis of Taxi Trips
Drake Graham
Football Stats
Alex Trommer