Student Projects

This page highlights the innovative work of our talented students from the Data Science Certificate program or the Masters in Data Science and Analytics. Projects span a diverse range from academic research, community collaborations, and real-world applications, demonstrating the impact and creativity of our upcoming data professionals. Each project is linked directly to a Github repository with more details about the project, including if the project has good next steps that can be built on by another person.

MSDSA Project Descriptions (2025 Cohort)

Masters project ideas for the 2025 cohort of Masters in Data Science and Analytics students.

Jesus Daniel Martinez and Robin Donatello

Portfolio Lab

Portfolio Lab is a portfolio optimization assistant app. Using mean-variance optimization the app constructs optimized portfolios according to user specifications.

CSU Education Opportunity Program: Student Success and Enrollment

My capstone project examines long term enrollment and student success patterns in the California State University Educational Opportunity Program(EOP). It is a support…

The CFO Office Sign-in Dashboard App

This project is a web application developed using Shiny, an R package for building interactive web applications, enabling dynamic data presentation and user interaction.

Road Network Processing & Analysis

Introduction: This project is a deep-dive into the methods of working with OSM data, converting to various network formats, efficient memory usage in python, network…

MSDSA Projects (2024 Cohort)

Masters project abstracts and final defense presentations for the 2024 cohort of Masters in Data Science and Analytics students.

Nate Dailey and Robin Donatello

Building an R package

Predicting Activity Priorities with Machine Learning

My capstone project focused on using machine learning to predict activity priorities for Chico State’s Center for Healthy Communities (CHC) based on text descriptions. The…