Markets, Mechanisms, Machines

This course was offered in Spring 2019 and Spring 2020 (which was transformmed into an on-line class when the University went into pandemic lockdown in March 2020), co-taught by David Evans (Computer Science) and Dennis Nekipelov. Since then, a related course Introduction to Algorithmic Economics has been taught in some semesters.



Symposium Presentations

Here are links to final projects and presentations from the Symposium Spectacular. Congratulations to all the teams for impressive work and engaging presentations!

UVA Students and COVID Spread

Maxwell Patek, Nate Strawser, Nicolas Izurrategui, Muxuan Yan

Pizza-Winning Presentation: Video
Project Site: http://people.virginia.edu/~my2pk/infection-simulator/sites/
Source Code: https://github.com/max7patek/infection-simulator

COVID-19 Interactive Simulator

Will Define, Shen Yan, Christian Paget, Brienne Tyler

Pizza-Winning Presentation: Video
Project Site: https://wdefine.github.io/mmmfinalproject/

Optimizing your COVID-19 Finances: A Survival Guide

Disha Jain, Sindhu Ranga, Jason Quinn, Sameer Gupta

Presentation: Video, Presentation Slides

NLP for COVID19

Eric Wang, Serena Jiao, Megan Cheng, Christine Cheng

Presentation: Video
Project Site: https://github.com/ericjoshuawang/NLP_COVID19

Effect of Contact Tracing on the Spread of COVID-19

Rebecca Zhou, Avery Burton, Eimara Mirza, Louisa Evola

Presentation: Video
Project Site: https://sites.google.com/virginia.edu/contact-tracing/home

Risky Business | An Analysis of Health Risk Factors

Anna Davis, Courtney Jacobs, Sally Greenberg, Chris Puglisi

Project Site: https://mmms20-riskybusiness.ue.r.appspot.com/"

Income and Occupation Effects on Social Distancing

Ryan Keller, Zac Bilmen, Ravi Kodali, Jami Park

Presentation: Video
Project Site: https://github.com/zb3qk/Social-Distancing-By-Occupation

Inside China’s Two-Child Policy

Margaret Cheng, Sophia Cheung, Yilin Huang, Yutong Zhong

Presentation: Video
Project Site: https://yh3mw1.wixsite.com/mmm-2

Soccer Player Ratings

Joe Karaki, Jack Short

Presentation: Video

Hotel Occupancy Optimization

Sam Spreen, Arjun Iyer, Ashwin Krishnamurthi, Rohan Malladi

Presentation: Video
Project Report: PDF

COVID-19 Stock Exploration and Time Series Analysis

Faisal Refai, Misran Dolan, Hisham Iqbal

Presentation: Video, Slides

COVIM: COVID-19 Intervention Modeling

Kiara Gan, Aaron Ho, Rashid Lasker, Eli Lifland

Presentation: Video
Project Site: https://covim.herokuapp.com/

Analyzing the Impacts of Covid 19 Through Travel Data

Saeed Razavi, Sharvari Bhatt, Leon Smith, Yi Fan Lim, Lydia Kim

Project Site: https://saeedrazavi.github.io/MMMAnalyzing-Economic-Impacts-of-COVID-19-Through-Travel-Data/


Symposium Spectacular

The schedule for the Final Projects Symposium Spectacular is below, starting at 2:00pm on Wednesday, 29 April at https://virginia.zoom.us/j/97366214060.

Start Time Project Title Team
2:00 PM Optimizing your COVID-19 Finances: A Survival GuideDisha Jain, Sindhu Ranga, Jason Quinn, Sameer Gupta
2:15 PMNLP for COVID19Eric Wang, Serena Jiao, Megan Cheng, Christine Cheng
2:25 PMEffect of Contact Tracing on the Spread of COVID-19Rebecca Zhou, Avery Burton, Eimara Mirza, Louisa Evola
2:35 PMRisky Business | An Analysis of Health Risk FactorsAnna Davis, Courtney Jacobs, Sally Greenberg, Chris Puglisi
2:45 PMIncome and Occupation Effects on Social DistancingRyan Keller, Zac Bilmen, Ravi Kodali, Jami Park
2:55 PMUVA Students and COVID SpreadMaxwell Patek, Nate Strawser, Nicolas Izurrategui, Muxuan Yan
3:05 PMInside China's Two-Child PolicyMargaret Cheng, Sophia Cheung, Yilin Huang, Yutong Zhong
3:15 PMWalk Around Your Room Break
3:30 PMSoccer Player RatingsJoe Karaki, Jack Short
3:40 PMHotel Occupancy OptimizationSam Spreen, Arjun Iyer, Ashwin Krishnamurthi, Rohan Malladi
3:50 PMCOVID-19 Stock Exploration and Time Series AnalysisFaisal Refai, Misran Dolan, Hisham Iqbal
4:00 PMCOVID-19 Interactive SimulatorWill Define, Shen Yan, Christian Paget, Brienne Tyler
4:10 PMCOVIM: COVID-19 Intervention ModelingKiara Gan, Aaron Ho, Rashid Lasker, Eli Lifland
4:20 PMAnalyzing the Impacts of Covid 19 Through Travel DataSaeed Razavi, Sharvari Bhatt, Leon Smith, Yi Fan Lim, Lydia Kim

Final Plans and Project Presentations

We discussed results from the survey and plans for the rest of the semester.

Slides on Survey and Plans (PDF)

Remaining Classes

The scheduled class meetings on Thursday, 23 April and Tuesday, 28 April will be open office hours for discussions about any topic you are interested in, including your final projects. This will be an opportunity to get feedback or advice on any issues for your project, including both techincal and research issues, as well as on planning your presentation. You are also encouraged to use these times as opportunities to coordinate with your team and work on completing your project. You can also you the time on April 28 to test out presenting using zoom and experiment with different options you mnight want to use in your project presentation.

Final Project Submissions

Final project submissions are due Tuesday, 28 April, 2:59pm. For the project submssion, you will submit a form with your project title, team members, URL (if you have a public project site), and answer questions about whether or not you want your presentation recorded and shared, and if you would like to request more than 10 minutes for your presentation. It is not necessary to submit a formal project report or paper if the website you submit is self-contained (e.g., if it is a code repository, it should include a README.md that explains the purpose of your project and describes your results).

Final Projects Symposium Spectacular!

Wednesday, 29 April, 2:00-4:30pm we will hold a Final Projects Symposium Spectacular! This will be in our favorite zoom meeting room. Due to limitations of current Internet Protocols, we regret that the symposium will be BYOB.

Each team will have up to 10 minutes to present your project (unless you pre-arranged for additional time). Your presentation can be a demo, slide show, puppet show, musical, video, or any other form of presentation that you can transmit through zoom.


Class 26: Network Contagion

Chapter 21 of Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg covers many of the topics from today’s class.

Final Plans summaries the plans for the rest of the semester, that were discussed in Class 26.


Class 23: Adam Davis

Talk and discussion with Adam Davis,from Upstart, an AI lending platform, on business analytics and his experiences as a new employee at a startup company.

(A video is available for students in the class, but not publicly.)