iSchool Capstone

2018

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Smart Hire: Hiring The Right People Made Easier!

Amazon's Strategic Recruitment Team (SRT) handles their Executive level hiring for Machine learning (ML) experts. The current challenge with their hiring procedure is that it needs a lot of manual effort to browse through Google Scholar/other academic websites to know about a ML expert’s research. We proposed an academic perspective solution which provides Amazon’s SRT with a portal displaying their well sought ML expert's collaboration network, conference research trends and his affiliations. Our solution makes it easier for recruiters to initiate networking with ML experts at Top conferences as it provides vital information about the candidate.
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STAGE: Simple Technology Assisting Genuine Expression

STAGE is the modern solution to an age-old practice in the arts - producing a show. UW’s Department of Dance currently employs an entirely paper-based system to manage their productions, resulting in unnecessary miscommunications and information redundancy. Our application solves these problems by allowing users to easily manage critical aspects of a production. Every dancer creates a profile, every choreographer can easily select their cast, and directors get a comprehensive look at every show. Our goal is to reduce the stress of scheduling and communication, and let artists focus on what really matters - getting their work on STAGE.
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Tunite

Problem: 1% of musicians dominate 77% fo the market, this implies that independent musicians and those who just entered the industry do not have the resources and exposure they need to compete with the 1%. Result: We built a collaboration platform where musicians share and evolve their music. We allow user to discover and be inspired by other musicians and create meaningful connections. With Tunite, we provide up and coming artists an opportunity to break into the music industry.
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Voicelator

Inconveniences in watching videos in foreign language is currently addressed by visual services such as transcripts and subtitles. But these services take your attention away from the video and isn’t helpful to those who are visually impaired. Voicelator is a Chrome extension that utilizes existing Microsoft and Google translation technologies to enhance your foreign video watching experience. Voicelator translates your YouTube videos from one language to another in real time, outputting an audible translation over the original video--allowing you to be fully immersed in the video without visual distractions.
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Voyager 2 - Jupyter Extension

JupyterLab is one of the most popular tools for coding and sharing Data Science work. However, as with any coding-based tool, creating and exploring data visualizations within a Jupyter Notebook is tedious and inefficient. Our extension integrates Voyager 2 with JupyterLab to help data scientists seamlessly iterate between modeling and visualization within one of the most popular Data Science computing environments today. Most importantly, it will let people focus on exploration over specification, which ultimately leads to better analysis and decision making.
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Waldo - A smart way to find smart people

Machine Learning and AI are increasingly powering the products in the world. With a small talent pool scattered around the country, how can companies find leaders to help build the next big thing? In partnership with Amazon’s Strategic Recruiting Team, the project provides a revolutionary tool to enable recruiters find the right talent in niche areas of applied sciences. The tool gathers information about prospective candidates, explores their social connections and understands the spread of talent communities in the United States. The insights help recruiters engage with the right candidates and match them to the right roles within the organization.

2017

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Argos

We set out to address the problem of forgetfulness the stress that comes with it. We built a hub that connects with smart home devices. It learns from your interactions and notifies you with actionable reminders. If you leave a light on and we predict that it should we off, we will send you a notification and let your turn the light off from your phone. Our project makes a difference because it allows people to go about their lives without the constant worry that they forgot to do something.
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Build-A-Resume

In today’s competitive job market, your resume can’t just be good, it has to be exceptional. Build-A-Resume creates custom resumes catered to your dream job to provide the ultimate competitive edge. Build your profile, provide us your desired job posting, and let us do the rest! Within seconds your fully catered and customized resume will be ready for recruiters to approve for an interview. Let us ease your job search stress by giving you a resume that best showcases your value and gets you noticed by all recruiters in a blink of an eye.
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Captikl

The issue of knowledge transfer is unique, especially when the context is cultural and the target demographic is young. Our project seeks to preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Striving to bring traditional means of information transmittal into the modern era, our project will capture the attention of a younger audience by building an easy-to-use mobile app that teaches users while they play. By digitizing the Colville Tribes’ cultural heritage, our project hopes to solve the information problem regarding the decline of oral transmittal of culture and language.
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Cicero

Busy students and professionals spend too much time rereading material to study or learn. While notes help with studying faster — few people have the time to write notes for everything. This results in inefficient review of materials, the loss of precious time, and losing crucial information by skimming content. Enter Cicero, a cutting edge web service that leverages advanced technologies to auto-generate notes for individuals with heavy readings. With Cicero, users will be able to save time by generating customizable summarized notes of study material they have already read before.