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Betting Just Got Easier: The Power Of Machine Learning And Making Predictions
Get PDFThere comes a time in your life when you have endeavored to place a wager, whether minuscule or astronomically immense the goal is to victoriously triumph. What if you knew the chances of you winning? In this project, I analyzed The Big Five European soccer leagues data where I predict the probability of what team will win using various machine learning techniques while answering questions to maximize the accuracy of my prediction. The project drives away from the rigorous concepts of numbers, with a visual representation of the analytics. This breaks away from the extensive data into a more conceptualized aspect of betting. Many Bettors bet based on favorites, is that a valid way to place a bet? The first phase of this project is creating a descriptive analysis for understanding the data, the second phase is diving into support vector machines, random forest, and Xgboost to organize data elements and standardize how the data elements relate to one another to answer questions pertaining to wager making. I will make use of PySpark to show distinction between supervised learning models. The complex components will follow a sequential design metric to understand correctly how to maximize your bet. The results will consist of a prototype web application with a descriptive analysis of my findings, this includes betting prediction on my data. Users will get a deep understanding on why the results presented as they did.Computer Scienc
Patient-Physician Communication: The Importance Of Effective Communication For Surgical Procedures
Get PDFA physician’s ability to effectively communicate information to their patient is critical for a successful patient-physician relationship. Patients who understand their physician are prone to acknowledge their health condition, understand their treatment plan, adjust their behavior, and follow recommendations. For the following research study, I reviewed current literature on how physicians communicate with young patients about surgical procedures. I recruited undergraduate students at Salem State University to participate in a brief anonymous survey about their experiences with open or laparoscopic appendectomies. Results yielded that 3 out of 30 participants had a laparoscopic appendectomy; 2 of those 3 participants reported having struggled with obtaining satisfactory information about the procedure.Healthcare Studie
"Global Migration and Refugees" Syllabus
No full textSyllabus for "Global Migration and Refugees," a Fall 2021 undergraduate Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) course taught by Vanessa Ruget (Politics, Policy, and International Relations) at Salem State University. The SSU course collaborated with a course taught at International Alatoo University in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. There were 16 students in the SSU course and around 25 students in the partner course. Digital tools used in collaborative work included Zoom and WhatsApp.Global migration is arguably the most pressing political issue of our time. This course explores the drivers, dimensions, and consequences of global mobility with a focus on current migrant and refugee crises. Why do people move across borders? Where are global migration flows occurring today and how is global climate change accelerating them? What is the difference between migrants and refugees? How is migration affecting politics in both sending and receiving countries? The course also discusses the political, ethical, and moral challenges of migration governance
An Institute-Based Approach to OER in Digital Caribbean Studies
Get PDFIn May 2019, more than forty educators, scholars, and librarians came together for a week-long workshop to collaboratively explore the potential—and the limitations—of digital pedagogies within Caribbean Studies. Hosted by the University of Florida (UF) and the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), “Migration, Mobility, Sustainability: Caribbean Studies & Digital Humanities” delved into digital projects amplifying community narratives across the Caribbean diaspora, low-barrier tools to enable student-instructor co-creation, and efforts to subvert colonialist legacies as we build and describe digital collections. This face-to-face experience offered a rich starting point for a two-year institute that fostered virtual dialogue, course development, and publication of a contextualized selection of open educational resources (OER). With a multi-institutional, international group of participants working across the Caribbean and the United States, institute leaders took a flexible approach to topical coverage, schedule, and anticipated outcomes that invited individual perspectives and experience to shape the conversation. This approach drove the capacious framing of OER, continued in this chapter, simply as content available freely online and useful to teachers and students. Rather than attempting to normalize vocabulary or prescriptively define what might “count” as an OER, the institute broadly encouraged knowledge-sharing around access to digital collections, technology, and models for leveraging both in the classroom. Presentations on courses and projects served as boundary objects, offering common ground where participants could explore potential next steps and opportunities for collaboration from multiple vantage points. This chapter focuses on the institute as a case study for OER development that centers relationship-building, lived experience, empathy, and flexibility as foundational principles, grounded in feminist approaches to digital pedagogy. Attention to social justice permeates this work, both in amplifying Caribbean voices across the diaspora and in leveraging approaches in the digital humanities (DH) that call on students to challenge reductive or colonialist perspectives. These values mirror those embodied by participants’ own research and teaching, and the following sections draw heavily on the publicly available reflections, syllabi, assignments, and other materials they contributed
"American Identities" Syllabus
No full textSyllabus for "American Identities," a Spring 2022 undergraduate Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) course taught by Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello (American Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies) at Salem State University. The SSU course collaborated with a course taught at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Thessaloniki, Greece.There were 30 students in the SSU course and 20 students in the partner course. Digital tools used in collaborative work included Google Suite.IDS 232: American IdentitiesThis course challenges ideas about and engages with debates over the meaning of “America” and “American” with a particular focus on how these terms have been shaped and limited by structural factors and tied to race, class, gender and ethnicity. Using an interdisciplinary perspective that integrates the humanities and social sciences students will explore how “American” cultural and national identities have developed over four centuries and consider the legacies of this history on “American” experiences today. Students will be introduced to the methods and materials of American Studies as they learn to interpret cultural products drawn from popular and fine arts, literature, music and film, historical, sociological, legal and geographic documents as well as other non-fiction texts.Three lecture hours per week. (DPDS and HP
Enhancing the Quality of Life for Those who Survive a Brain Injury
Get PDFThe project intends to build a program to ensure that patients with brain injuries receive high-quality rehabilitation services to minimize brain-related impairments and death. It also aims to mitigate the negative effects of brain damage by assisting patients in taking the required steps. To achieve this, the project will bring together brain injury survivors and healthcare professionals to come up with the most optimum measures for curbing brain injury disorders
Program for 2022 Spring
No full textProgram for the event. Contains the performance titles, the names and bios of choreographers, dancers, artistic directors, writers, and more.Music and Danc
Recreation During a Pandemic: The Impact of COVID 19 on Programming in Massachusetts
Get PDFThis project is a review of the impact of COVID 19 on recreation programs in Massachusetts from 2020 through November 2021. The pandemic and how we interact with people have changed the landscape of community gathering and the programs that cities and towns can provide. A review of city/town websites and a pool of telephone interviews helped describe that within communities across Massachusetts there have been changes to available programming. This is significant in both rural and urban environments. Results of this review show that there is some change in the types of programs available, use of staffing, and budget levels
Rainbow Adult Day Health Care Center of Lynn: Senior Support Group Program
No full textThe Rainbow Adult Day Health Care (ADHC) opened in May 2018 in Lynn, Massachusetts. The adult daycare program focuses on older adults. They offer the following services such as medical services, social work services, nutrition services, alternative therapies, exercise programs, transportation services, daily activities, and recreational therapy. The Senior Support Group Program is facilitated with video chat and in-person at ADHC. The project’s goals focus on reducing depressive symptoms, decreasing social isolation, and improving social skills such as communication with peers and collaboration. As a result, participants can learn how to engage with one another through technologies that allow them to interact with the ADHC staff and each other in resolving issues that they are faced with regarding living situations, language barriers, and being senior citizens
What Impact Does Effective Questioning Have On Student Engagement?
No full textTeachers often ask questions to spark discussion. Which kinds of questions can spark discussions with more participation and deeper engagement? This study examines video data of students' interactions in physics lab, focusing on moments where a teacher's question sparked discussion. Different kinds of questions may have led to differing levels of engagement.Chemistry and Physic