All Capstone Projects
To meet the energy needs of those without access, we need to know where existing infrastructure, especially transmission and distribution lines, are in relation to communities in need. Current databases track approximately 85% of global energy infrastructure capacity. The remaining 15% may dramatically impact global emissions, but are particularly hard...
This project aims to explore two topics within a world-leading surgery program. For the first project, the final goal will be to productionize a system within the existing technology stack to automate surgery scheduling. The strategy to implement this system will be to use electronic health records data to build...
The goal of this project is to develop interventions for the growing opioid crisis. To do this, the team will build a method to probabilistically fuse granular synthetic household data with publicly available data related to opioid use to predict where opioid hotspots are likely to occur, and why. The...
This project will utilize publicly available LiDAR data to estimate carbon stocks across The Conservation Fund’s nationwide portfolio of working forestlands. Students will create computational tools for processing NASA’s newest LiDAR data – Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) and utilize field data to validate and interpret data. In addition, students...
Saving Nature is a non-profit organization that works with local partners to purchase land and restore forests to connect habitat fragments in areas of high conservation concern. Part of this effort includes monitoring the area with camera traps. These camera traps can collect hundreds of images and videos each month...
The “small-watershed” ecology approach measures all precipitation chemistry (inputs) and stream solute fluxes (outputs) within a watershed. This has led to key environmental insights such as the discovery of acid rain. Currently, upwards of 150 different federally funded sites have implemented this watershed approach to evaluate site-specific questions about climate...
The goal of capstone project is to apply and extend custom analytics solutions to discover how life remains resilient in extreme environments. An explosion of data has resulted from recent discoveries of tiny single-celled life hiding out in the most extreme places on Earth. These single-celled creatures, or microbes, thrive...
Wild animals eaten by humans are known as “wild meat”, or “bushmeat” in sub-Saharan Africa. Hunting for bushmeat is both an ancient and modern practice, but as we step into the Anthropocene, bushmeat hunting has become unsustainable in many areas, threatening biodiversity and the food, financial, and cultural security of...
Wild animals eaten by humans are known as “wild meat”, or “bushmeat” in sub-Saharan Africa. Hunting for bushmeat is both an ancient and modern practice, but as we step into the Anthropocene, bushmeat hunting has become unsustainable in many areas, threatening biodiversity and the food, financial, and cultural security of...
This project examines a number of questions using raw data on course enrollment at Duke University. Questions range from how do grades impact the order of courses students take to are there certain courses that are bottlenecks for majors. A tangible product will be a recommendation engine for course suggestion...
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