Sarita Cini

Ingredient volume conversions and lack of ingredient naming conventions are some other design challenges.

Proposal: Mobile App/Website that adds recipe ingredients to shopping list and adds purchases to your pantry. Tracks inventory level and expiration date of pantry items, as well as buying patterns to make shopping list and menu suggestions.

Project Name: PantryForecast
Team: Sarita Cini
Problem: As Americans’ taste in food broadens, the difficulty of matching favorite recipes to the home’s unmanageable list of pantry items has led to ingredients expiring before they get used. Food waste is a growing problem as home cooks buy bulk groceries without the ability to plan how these ing…[Read more]

1. Where should a hospital devote resources to prevent Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs)? The data I would collect are patient ID, diagnosis, procedure, equipment used, HAI acquired (Y/N), Type of HAI, if acquired.
2. I would advise to think first of the most direct variables related to the business problem at hand. If HAI’s are your business…[Read more]

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/hotelscom-uplifts-big-data-to-get-closer-to-customers-464688

Hotels.com is using R in conjunction with other analytics packages to personalize consumer marketing and make navigation through the site faster and easier. In particular, Hotels.com is using machine-learning to recognize and remove duplicate photos of…[Read more]

As part of a Quality Assurance team for a major bank I was tasked with finding the root cause of incorrect loan bookings across the entire footprint. The data I had at my disposal included a large trial balance listing all of the fixed details about a loan- such as the customer name, the lender who closed the loan, the bank region in which it was…[Read more]