Will Rodman: Project Portfolio

Table of Contents

Introduction
Projects
Honors Thesis
University Research
Contact Information

Introduction

I graduated from Tulane University with a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science and a minor in Economics. My career interests include technology and integration strategy consulting.

Projects

Predicting Bond Amounts in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court

Project tests the use of machine learning to predict initial bail amounts and uncover demographic influences on these predictions, using data from the Orleans Parish District Criminal Court. We have compiled a dataset of over 800,000 court records, focusing specifically on 9,800 cases from 2020 to 2022.

Analyzing OPEC Member Crude Oil Production Quotas

Project analyzes OPEC crude oil production quotas and OECD countries crude oil production from 1960 to 2022.

Modeling Coffee Reviews with Ordinary Least Squares

Project studies data from coffeereview.com, which was obtained through web scraping and published on kaggle.com. Result was a linear regression model that predicts individual ratings for coffee beans.

Mobile Ad Hoc Network Simulation

Application simulates a Mobile Ad Hoc Network of non-stationary clients linked through wireless connections.

Honors Thesis

This thesis developes an efficient method for measuring distances between graphs. Such methods are vital for structuring complex networks like digital road maps. Specifically, the project assesses the effectiveness of the traversal distance algorithm in machine learning classification. The aim was to enhance the precision of the k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) model for classifying geometric graphs that are represented as English letters. Previous studies have utilized various algorithms for similar purposes; however, this thesis hypothesizes that the traversal distance can offer significant computational efficiency.

Oral Defence Presentation

Thesis Paper

Supporting Programs

University Research

This research is funded by a National Science Foundation dedicated towards A Unified Framework for Geometric and Topological Signature-Based Shape Comparison. Awarded to Dr. Carola Wenk at Tulane University, alongside researchers at Michigan State University.

Frechet Distance Python Library

Library that visualizes and computes free space between two curves using the Frechet distance.

Traversal Distance Visualizer

Command line program that visualizes and computes free space between one curve and one geometric graph using the Traversal distance.

Contact Information