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**Industry Project — Navfeas: Geospatial Data Visualization and Analysis for an Ocean Conservation Startup (Lead: Austin Zang PO ‘24)**

• Learn and practice industry-standard SWE fundamentals: backend API construction, node.js webdev framework, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), git, unit testing, software architecture, databases (MongoDB, Neo4j)
• Work with geospatial GPS coordinates to predict whale migration patterns - aiding mariners to avoid areas where shipping traffic creates an environmental disturbance

**p-recommender: Interactive Course Recommender for 5C Students (Lead: Saatvik Kher PO ‘24)**

• Use NLP embeddings, unsupervised learning, and multi-class neural networks to build a content-based recommendation system that suggests a rich variety of 5C courses.
• Scrape and extract features from a corpus of course descriptions and instructor reviews.
• Build an interactive web app that can be used by 9000+ students of the Claremont colleges.

**p-yum: Quantifying the Culinary side of YouTube (Lead: Tai Xiang PO ‘23)**

• Create a set of metrics for quantifying creator-audience interactions for food-based YouTube channels
• Develop image-processing and NLP-based models for automated evaluation of YouTube channels
• Characterize a large set of well-known food-based YouTube channels with the compiled metrics
• Look for predictors of success in food-based YouTube channels

**p-okémon: Pokémon Battle Engine (Lead: Zac Davis CM ‘24)**

• Develop an evaluation function that predicts win% in a given position using VGC statistics APIs and battle simulators.
• Create models using supervised learning techniques to iterate on search tree of potential outcomes and select the strongest outcomes determined by evaluation function.
• Employ self-play training to further improve the supervised models and launch unsupervised models which solely learn through self-play.
• Test against humans!

**p-laying_soccer: UEFA Soccer Match Prediction (Leads: Taylor Venenciano PO ‘23 & Guy Thampakkul PO ‘23)**