Capstone Projects

As part of the program requirements, MS students are required to complete a capstone project for a client under the supervision of a faculty.

Examples of projects

The following are some examples of past capstone projects with “Titles” (clients):

“Causal inference of the TV advertising intervention effect on revenue” (Carpe)
“Determinants of rejected mail ballots” (UNC Department of Political Science)
“Does the amount of Lipolysis-stimulated lipoprotein receptors in breast cancer cells affect the survival probability?” (NCCU Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences)
“Evaluating the Impact of ABM Medication Synchronization Implementation on Medication Adherence” (UNC School of Pharmacy)
“Impacts of Patients’ Parents Virtually Attending the Rounds on Rounding Time” (UNC Pediatric Critical Care)
“Impact of Relational Coordination on Job Satisfaction and Retention of Military Healthcare Professionals” (UNC School of Nursing)
“NFL Adjusted Plus-Minus Special Teams Models” (NFL Big Data Bowl)
“Prediction of time spent on the research administrative support requests” (UNC Research Finance Service Center)
“Predicting the Effects of School Lunch Programs on Measures of Academic Success” (NC Alliance for Health)
“Relationship Analysis Between Financial Measures and Company Information” (NCCU School of Business)
“Study Abroad Pre-Departure and Post-Program Survey Data Analysis” (UNC Study Abroad Office)
“The Looma Project: Exploration of Features and Story Types” (The Looma Project)
“Topic Detection on Therapeutic Twitter Data with Latent Dirichlet Allocation” (ZS Associates)
“Using Generalized Linear Regression models to Determine the effect of reide-scourcing demand on road crashes” (UNC Department of City and Regional Planning)
“Volunteer Nurses in North Carolina during COVID-19” (North Carolina Area Health Education Centers)
“What affects membership’s assessment? – Interpretable Models for Satisfaction with Different Aspects of HNC” (Bleeding Disorders Foundation of North Carolina)