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Capstone Projects

Predicting Length of Stay for Cats in Shelter

Program: Data Science Master's
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota (remote)
Student: Scott Chase

Feline Rescue is a cat shelter and foster coordinator based in St. Paul, MN.  The project applied predictive modeling techniques to quantify the characteristics, health aspects, and social media marketing frequency of cats that were influential in reducing length of stay.  The results of the predictive model were incorporated into an interactive data visualization software, allowing for interpretation of the results, and identifying actions that might be taken to reduce a cat’s length of stay.