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=GSM 6272 DATA SCIENCE=

This is the final projects wiki for Willamette University's Atkinson Graduate School of Management's Data Science course.

**Project Description:**
The course has undergone an evolution; in the early classes student teams would base their projects on their collective work experience, identifying, and executing a business intelligence project that relies on the data science techniques discussed in class. Later, Salem Health, the local hospital, became the course's client. In both phases the key tasks were:


 * Identify a business problem or a series of interesting questions that deal with either classification, prediction or clustering;
 * Identify sources of data that could potentially be useful in addressing your questions;
 * Pre-process – clean, validate, visualize your data;
 * Develop your model considering alternative techniques, selecting the most appropriate one in the process;
 * Interpret your results, and write a final report on this wiki including an executive summary of your findings. This will be due during the last week, and
 * Prepare a 10-15 minute presentation for the last class meeting detailing your project, how it evolved, and what you learned.