iSchool Capstone

2017

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Hoppy

Too much work to appreciate your co-workers? Lose track of your team’s performance? Our project is for you! Hoppy is a Chrome extension on which you can endorse your colleague in a fun and easy way. With Hoppy, you also have access to real-time reports and ad-hoc dashboards of your choice. Be grateful and let’s connect!
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iCloudSec - Assessing security implications of cloud adoption in Healthcare

In 2015, over 112 million medical records were breached worth 12 million total cost from data breaches. Today, healthcare organizations understand the benefits of investing in cloud security but with constant change in security landscape, fear of data breach and loss of control over their data, they are concerned about adopting to cloud. To help these concerned organizations navigating safely in cloud, I have made an attempt to present to them a comprehensive list of security considerations to be taken into account for navigating safely in cloud. This would better enable them to focus on healthcare operations. Through this project, I have conducted an initial literature review on the topic and then interviewed security professionals and analyzed the overall risk benefit of using cloud in healthcare industry. My analysis covers the elements of patient data security, cloud vendor selection, industry standard security controls along with final results on key ways to assess security implications of cloud in healthcare.
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IC^3

With the increase in internet connected devices, the number of unprotected and compromised devices is on the rise. While many corporations can afford security systems, homeowners and small businesses are left with traditional host-based antivirus that is limited to specific devices and operating systems. IC3 represents a prototype of a consumer-grade network intrusion detection system, providing users with enterprise-grade network security at an affordable cost and entry-level technical capability requirements. IC3 comes in the form of a router, with a built-in web interface for accessing detections and steps on how to remediate them.
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Identifying and Delivering Insights

With 345+ data points on 920,000+ companies worldwide PitchBook provides the industry's most comprehensive M&A, PE and VC database and analysis Platform. However, there is no accurate prediction of a company’s potential growth or logical, unbiased correlation between the many data points that will aid in decision-making process. Team Infoception performed extensive data research and analysis, and designed a visualization prototype that will provide needed insights to PitchBook’s customers. This dynamic, interactive dashboard provides unbiased insights based on user preferences and will hugely benefit PitchBook users to easily access, understand, compare and convert data to relevant, well-informed decisions.
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Implementing Cultural Humility Training at The Seattle Public Library

The Seattle Public Library provides K-12 students with after-school Homework Help sessions in science, mathematics, social studies, and English. Homework Help is run by volunteers, who receive training in pedagogy, but do not receive the support necessary to support a diverse student population. In developing and delivering training in cultural humility, we invite volunteers to examine the wider impact they have on their students, and how students use libraries. With our encouragement, volunteers examine their own biases and privilege, and are better equipped to create a learning environment that is more equitable and inclusive for students of all cultures.
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Improving Access to Information from the Washington Health Benefit Exchange

Accessible design improves websites for everyone. Yet many websites do not yet follow these principles, creating a barrier for people with sensory, motor, cognitive and other disabilities. The Washington Health Benefit Exchange (WAHBE) wants to create specific policies and procedures to ensure such accessibility, which federal law requires. This project kickstarts their policy work, by pulling together an online resource guide of standards, toolkits, models and best practices. The guide can be updated and shared, and reflects scholarly and popular literature, practices and expertise from national and international sources.
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Improving Metadata of Mormon Missionary Diaries

The collection of Mormon Missionary Diaries at the L Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University is a very difficult collection to search and find materials as there are three different databases that each have different information. The Whittaker Bibliography, the Manuscript Collection, and the Digital Collection. Each have cause confusion and frustration for both staff and patron because of the many ineffective an inaccurate searches. My project was bringing these three different databases together and transferring the metadata into a one new database.
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Improving Patient Care While Reducing Health Care Costs

Cutting costs while improving the patient experience of care (including satisfaction and quality), can be a challenge. Instead of creating innovative programs, health organizations can utilize existing programs. Shifting patients use of facility to mail order programs may alleviate some of these withstanding issues and improve health outcomes overall. Research that I conducted showed that past endeavors did not include patient input or entire organizational involvement. Analyzing the past year’s data, I provided the organization with the number of facility orders that can be shifted to mail order (without any impact to patients) along with a predicted forecasted trend.
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InForm

Emergency youth shelters provide a safe, stable, temporary living alternative to youth who are dealing with family crisis. The staff at these shelters have the difficult task of balancing client care with meeting state and federal grant requirements. Our project saves the staff of these shelters time by tracking the most commonly needed client information and providing an online form database that can be updated when requirements change. With our tool, staff can keep an up-to-date list of the status of each case, allowing them to complete state and federal reporting while freeing up more time for client care.
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Information Needs for Onboarding at North Central Regional Library

Before managers at North Central Regional Library create a new program program, they need to learn more about the information needs of their employees. What skills and information do librarians and other staff need to succeed in their work? Over several months, I sought an answer to this question, interviewing librarians and administering surveys to library staff. In the end, I came up with a written report that elucidated the information needs of the library’s employees. As a result, North Central Regional Library will be able to design better training programs in the future.