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 GuptaSymposium 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 Guide | Disha Jain, Sindhu Ranga, Jason Quinn, Sameer Gupta |
| 2:15 PM | NLP for COVID19 | Eric Wang, Serena Jiao, Megan Cheng, Christine Cheng | 2:25 PM | Effect of Contact Tracing on the Spread of COVID-19 | Rebecca Zhou, Avery Burton, Eimara Mirza, Louisa Evola |
| 2:35 PM | Risky Business | An Analysis of Health Risk Factors | Anna Davis, Courtney Jacobs, Sally Greenberg, Chris Puglisi |
| 2:45 PM | Income and Occupation Effects on Social Distancing | Ryan Keller, Zac Bilmen, Ravi Kodali, Jami Park |
| 2:55 PM | UVA Students and COVID Spread | Maxwell Patek, Nate Strawser, Nicolas Izurrategui, Muxuan Yan |
| 3:05 PM | Inside China's Two-Child Policy | Margaret Cheng, Sophia Cheung, Yilin Huang, Yutong Zhong |
| 3:15 PM | Walk Around Your Room Break | |
| 3:30 PM | Soccer Player Ratings | Joe Karaki, Jack Short |
| 3:40 PM | Hotel Occupancy Optimization | Sam Spreen, Arjun Iyer, Ashwin Krishnamurthi, Rohan Malladi |
| 3:50 PM | COVID-19 Stock Exploration and Time Series Analysis | Faisal Refai, Misran Dolan, Hisham Iqbal |
| 4:00 PM | COVID-19 Interactive Simulator | Will Define, Shen Yan, Christian Paget, Brienne Tyler |
| 4:10 PM | COVIM: COVID-19 Intervention Modeling | Kiara Gan, Aaron Ho, Rashid Lasker, Eli Lifland |
| 4:20 PM | Analyzing the Impacts of Covid 19 Through Travel Data | Saeed Razavi, Sharvari Bhatt, Leon Smith, Yi Fan Lim, Lydia Kim |
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.
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.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.)
Class 22: Privacy in the Age of Coronavirus
Slides Class 22 Slides (PDF) Links Video: Coronavirus: From 93 infected to 0, what did this Chinese City do to contain the virus? Google’s COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports Virginia, 29 March 2020 (You can see if you’ve contributed to this at https://www.google.com/maps/timeline.) Kinsa US Health Weather Map Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim, and Adam Smith. Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data Analysis. TCC 2006. (Paper that introduced Differential Privacy.Class 21: Joseph Calandrino
Guest lecture and discussion with Joseph Calandrino, Research Director, Office of Technology Research and Investigation, Federal Trade Commission.
Class 20: Peer Effects
Slides
The video we watched is Esther Duflo, Social experiments to fight poverty.
Class 19: Guest - Tammy Wang
Guest lecture and discussion with Tammy Wang, Vice President of Data Science and Engineering at Riviera Partners.