✨ Fall 2024 Portfolio Homework Showcase

EECS 398 at the University of Michigan

In Fall 2024, all students in Practical Data Science were required to complete a Portfolio Homework, in which they performed an in-depth investigation into a dataset of their choosing and exercised 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 dataset choice.


  1. Power Outages 🔋
  2. Recipes and Ratings 🍽️
  3. League of Legends ⌨️
  4. Custom Dataset 🎨

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