Data Mining Projects Spring 2016, UVic

Example Data Mining Projects, Spring 2016

Here are a few examples of well done data mining projects from the Spring 2016 semester.

Clickbait Generation

This group scraped data from buzzfeed and built a neat demo server to show off their model.
Report: pdf
Report: Demo server

Box Office Prediction

This group scraped all of their own data from BoxOfficeMojo and then tried to predict if a movie would be a hit based on its actors, rating, runtime, data released, etc.
Report: pdf

Seasonal Climate Change

Predicting the weather is notoriously difficult. This group tackled predicting the temperature in Victora using methods we didn't cover in class, which was quite impressive.
Report: pdf
Data: original adjusted

Wine Prediction

This project used existing data and existing methods, but did a nice job of exploring the data and explaining their methods.
Report: pdf

NHL Prediction

This group scraped data about the current (then 2015-16) hockey season and tried to predict who would win the Stanley cup.
Report: pdf

News Bias

This team scraped news articles from different outlets and attempted to detect bias in the reporting. Not everything they tried worked, but it was a very thorough exploration.
Report: pdf