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Capstone Projects

Forecasting and Visualizing Form Data at Acme, Inc.

Program: Data Science Master's
Host Company: Acme, Inc.
Location: Marshfield, Wisconsin (onsite)
Student: Kristopher Kaanta

Acme is a company offering its customers various products and services. Acme leverages a coupon program allowing customers who have made purchases to complete and submit a form to receive a partial in-store credit of purchases made. Submitted forms are received and processed by Acme every day. The project investigated the application of data forecasting and data visualization techniques on time-series data. The objectives related to this project included exploratory analysis, a working form submission forecasting model, and a visualization of their scanning process.