iSchool Capstone

2020

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Think Beyond: Reusable Packaging for a Sustainable Future

This project is rethinking the approach for e-commerce packaging. With the growing market of e-commerce, there is a dire need to generate a sustainable approach. By utilizing Amazon’s delivery process and packaging as a use case, our team proposes a new way to help decrease the number package needed to be produced while reducing the number of incorrect recycled materials being sent to the recycling center. Through the surveys, interviews, and research, our team has redesigned the current Amazon mailers for reuse to fit the new business process geared towards sustainability.
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Venture Funding and Patent Portfolio

With the rise in Venture Capital investments, it is necessary to provide investors with additional information apart from traditional data sources. A good investment indicator is the patent data of a company. Patents allow investors to know the technical capability and intellectual property of a company. This enables much more sound investments. However, a major drawback is the unavailability of a consolidated data source providing all the information. The project aims to resolve this by developing a novel algorithm for fast fuzzy matching of two companies between Pitchbook funding data and United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) data.
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Web Development of True Brands: Salsify Integration, Performance Assessment and Sub-brand Website Design

Our project focuses on providing web development solution to True Brand. True Brands is the leading designer and supplier of beverage lifestyle accessories worldwide, a perfect medium sized for-profit enterprise with startup mentality. Our solution focuses on web development. This web development project includes three aspects, data integration from NetSuite to Salsify, developing sub-brand website frontend framework using the page layout builder, and assess the performance of the current website using PageSpeed Insights and Chrome Devtools. This web development project aims to optimize the performance of True Brand website and drive more profit by focusing on long-term digital success.
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Which is the Safest Car for You? Deriving Safety Score from Real World Collision Data

Which car model is the safest while facing a car collision? The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has a popular car safety rating system based on crash tests in controlled environments, but how about a safety rating based on real world accident data? Provided with extensive vehicle collision records across the US, by VinAudit, we built a regression model to evaluate the vehicle safety for each vehicle make/model/year, and created a web application that allows people to look up and browse safety scores. We provide a brand new perspective for consumers who care car safety.