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Description:: The 2005 NHL Lockout instituted a hard salary cap, which is the most limiting salary cap of the major US sports leagues. The NHL as a result doesn’t have the luxury of overpaying or dumping a contract as other professional sports leagues have, which places a huge constraint and emphasis...
Keyword:: hockey, NHL, sports analytics, national hockey league, and player performance
Subject:: Data Science
Creator:: Sean Prentis, Greg Ackerman, and Quinn MacLean
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/13/2020
Date Modified:: 06/13/2020
Date Created:: 2020-06-07
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Description:: Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes (technically 11,842 > 10 acres)! This bold proclamation can be seen everywhere from license plates to tourism pamphlets; it reveals how much water matters to the state on not only a commercial level, but as the very identity of the community. At the...
Keyword:: st. paul, water, property, price, lakefront, linear regression, minneapolis, python, twin cities, quality, hedonic pricing method, and minnesota
Subject:: Data Science
Creator:: David Charles Sedgwick
Owner:: Chris Diaz
Date Uploaded:: 11/26/2019
Date Modified:: 12/17/2019
Date Created:: 2019
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Description:: With a glut of competing priorities, the financial industry faces major challenges in extracting timely, relevant, and specifically-focused information from text. Without clear-cut business cases, making the investment in text analysis methods does not justify the return on investment. Furthermore, the business landscape continues to become increasingly complex, and at...
Keyword:: knowledge graphs, LDA, ontologies, topic modeling, text analytics, and machine learning
Subject:: Data Science
Creator:: Troy Danka
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 11/21/2019
Date Modified:: 12/17/2019
Date Created:: 2019
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Description:: Using transcripts from Kansas State University Libraries’ (KSUL) virtual reference services (VRS), an experimental design was created to investigate the value and impact of different natural language processing techniques in the context of creating predictive models. Models were created to use only the first few word tokens supplied by VRS...
Keyword:: academic libraries, virtual reference, predictive modelling, and natural language processing
Subject:: Data Science
Creator:: Jeremy Walker
Owner:: Jeremy Walker
Date Uploaded:: 06/23/2019
Date Modified:: 12/17/2019
Date Created:: 2019
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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