University of Wisconsin Extended Campus is now Wisconsin Online Collaboratives! This name reflects the partnerships of the 13 universities within the Universities of Wisconsin–our state's premier system of public higher education. Through these partnerships we will continue to support online degrees, certificates and courses–along with support services to you.

Capstone Projects

Data Simplification Recommendation of Data Collected by the Wisconsin Department of Instruction

Program: Data Science Master's
Location: Wisconsin (onsite)
Student: Alex Schenck

The project pulls all data posted publicly by the Wisconsin DPI related to student demographics and achievement as well as school district profiles. The main assessment is a dimensionality reduction in order to advise the DPI on what data collection points relate to student outcomes (as measured by ACT scores) and what data points are not necessary for predicting achievement.