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Help Me Find a CS Capstone Project Idea

by joeclef on 4/15/15, 5:08 PM with 9 comments

I'm a CS student looking for ideas for my required capstone project. Any interesting problem you would like to see solved? I'm willing to work on any interesting problems/ideas. I will give you proper credits. Thanks for your help. EDIT: I'm mostly interested in Databases and Machine Learning.

EDIT 2: The project life span should be two semesters of 14 weeks each.

  • by trcollinson on 4/15/15, 8:34 PM

    I really don't know how much this will help you. Really, building an entire project, especially one which spans 28 weeks, is a huge under taking and takes a lot of determination and effort, which generally comes from passion for the project. So, getting ideas from others and working on them might not actually help you much in the long run, unless you also have a deep passion for the idea.

    What would be better is to think about what you are passionate about. Maybe you are having a bit of "Developers block" right now and aren't sure how to get from "I need an idea to work on" to "Wow I can't stop working on this because I am so excited about it." Maybe we can help with that.

    So you are interested in Databases and Machine Learning, why is that? What do you like about them?

    Do you have a favorite market or hobby you are interested in? Finance, medicine/healthcare, sports, astronomy, chemistry, politics, etc etc etc.

    Do you have something that really frustrates you? Or maybe which frustrates a group of people you are associated with?

    On that note, do you have any groups you associate with regularly? Teams, religious or community organizations, mentorship groups?

    Answering these might help to tease out more information which might lead to a brilliant project! Good Luck!

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  • by p_ronto on 4/15/15, 11:42 PM

    Nothing comes to mind but perhaps you could find inspiration from the competition section of kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/competitions). At the moment there are 170 including completed ones.

  • by jtfairbank on 4/16/15, 12:20 AM

    Talk to a professor- they always have something interesting they'd like to do. A good way to do something bigger is by taking their existing PhD research and actually making it into a real tool or demo product.

  • by detaro on 4/15/15, 6:16 PM

    What kind of scope does the project have? (How long, how many hours per week, ...)

  • by sjg007 on 4/15/15, 10:12 PM

    Implement a machine learning algorithm for a database.

  • by knowbody on 4/15/15, 5:38 PM

    what field of CS interests you?