Project Description CIS 4321 Spring 2020 Dr. Batarseh In this project, you experience the full cycle of the data mining process. Below, I explain the different stages of the project.Project Objectives At the conclusion of this project assignment, participants should be able to: · Write a project proposal · Identify a dataset to mine · Mine a dataset and write-up the insights gathered from the results Requirements For the final project in CIS4321 , you are going to mine a dataset and define a project scope, implementation and analysis. The dataset should be interesting, non-trivial and should have at least 6 attributes and on the order of 1000s (or more) instances. Some examples include data related to business, consumer behaviors, social-network information, etc. You could select a business problem that can be addressed through data mining. The following links are some sites to public datasets. · www.data.gov · www.kaggle.com/datasets · www.archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.html · www.aws.amazon.com/datasets · www.data.worldbank.org · www.pewinternet.org/datasets · www.labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong · www.sports-reference.com · www.wunderground.com/history · www.yelp.com/academic_dataset · www.developer.bestbuy.com/apis Project Proposal (Due April 20th) Formally write up your proposed project. Your write-up should address each below point individually, It should be single spaced, grammatically correct, and submitted to Blackboard by the deadline. Include in your project the following: 1. Project name (descriptive and concise). 2. Significance of the project 3. Dataset description a. Describe the contents of the dataset. b. Link to where it can be located c. Dataset format d. Provide a description of the attributes and target variable. 4. Implementation a. What type of pre-processing, EDA and modeling you anticipate using? 5. Results a. Why are the results useful? b. Who would be interested in the results? Dataset Mining Your project should deliver on the functionality described in your project proposal. As part of this, you will need to perform data preprocessing (as needed), exploratory analysis of the dataset (including visualizations), modeling and testing and evaluation. You should also consider feature selection to help improve the predictive power (accuracy) of you approach. Technical Report (Integrated in Jupyter Notebook). You need to write a technical report describing your approach and findings. Your report must be written in Jupyter Notebook and interleaved with your python code. The report should be organized, clear, concise and easy to understand and follow. Your notebook should have the following sections at a minimum (in the order given below): 1. Introduction: This section must briefly describe the dataset you used and the data mining task you implemented. Briefly describe your findings. 2. Data Analysis: This section must provide details about the dataset. You must include: a. Information about the dataset itself, e.g., ...

1. Project Description
CIS 4321 Spring 2020
Dr. Batarseh
In this project, you experience the full cycle of the data mining
process. Below, I explain the different stages of the
project.Project Objectives
At the conclusion of this project assignment, participants should
be able to:
· Write a project proposal
· Identify a dataset to mine
· Mine a dataset and write-up the insights gathered from the
results
Requirements
For the final project in CIS4321 , you are going to mine a
dataset and define a project scope, implementation and analysis.
The dataset should be interesting, non-trivial and should have at
least 6 attributes and on the order of 1000s (or more) instances.
Some examples include data related to business, consumer
behaviors, social-network information, etc. You could select a
business problem that can be addressed through data mining.
The following links are some sites to public datasets.
· www.data.gov
· www.kaggle.com/datasets
· www.archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.html
· www.aws.amazon.com/datasets
· www.data.worldbank.org
· www.pewinternet.org/datasets
· www.labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong
· www.sports-reference.com
· www.wunderground.com/history
· www.yelp.com/academic_dataset
· www.developer.bestbuy.com/apis
Project Proposal (Due April 20th)
Formally write up your proposed project. Your write-up should

2. address each below point individually, It should be single
spaced, grammatically correct, and submitted to Blackboard by
the deadline. Include in your project the following:
1. Project name (descriptive and concise).
2. Significance of the project
3. Dataset description
a. Describe the contents of the dataset.
b. Link to where it can be located
c. Dataset format
d. Provide a description of the attributes and target variable.
4. Implementation
a. What type of pre-processing, EDA and modeling you
anticipate using?
5. Results
a. Why are the results useful?
b. Who would be interested in the results?
Dataset Mining
Your project should deliver on the functionality described in
your project proposal. As part of this, you will need to perform
data preprocessing (as needed), exploratory analysis of the
dataset (including visualizations), modeling and testing and
evaluation. You should also consider feature selection to help
improve the predictive power (accuracy) of you approach.
Technical Report (Integrated in Jupyter Notebook).
You need to write a technical report describing your approach
and findings. Your report must be written in Jupyter Notebook
and interleaved with your python code. The report should be
organized, clear, concise and easy to understand and follow.
Your notebook should have the following sections at a minimum
(in the order given below):
1. Introduction: This section must briefly describe the dataset
you used and the data mining task you implemented. Briefly
describe your findings.
2. Data Analysis: This section must provide details about the
dataset. You must include:
a. Information about the dataset itself, e.g., the attributes and

3. attribute types, the number of instances, and the attribute being
used as the label.
b. Relevant summary statistics about the dataset.
c. Data visualizations highlighting important/interesting aspects
of your dataset. Visualizations may include frequency
distributions, comparisons of attributes (scatterplot, multiple
frequency diagrams), box and whisker plots, etc. The goal is not
to include all possible diagrams, but instead to select and
highlight diagrams that provide insight about the dataset itself.
d. Note that this section must describe the above (in paragraph
form) and not just provide diagrams and statistics. Also, each
figure included must have a figure caption (Figure number and
textual description) that is referenced from the text (e.g.,
“Figure 2 shows a frequency diagram for ...”). You should
provide you source code using Jupyter Notebook and files.
3. Modeling Results: This section should describe the modeling
approach you developed and its performance. Explain what
techniques you used, briefly how you designed and implemented
model, how you tested the predictive ability, and how well it
performs.
4. Conclusion: Provide a conclusion of your project, including a
short summary of the dataset you used and any of its inherent
challenges, the modeling approach you developed and any ideas
you have on ways to improve its performance
Project Submission
Submit your project to blackboard by the due date, no late
submissions will be accepted.
You should submit a well-documented Jupyter Notebook and
dataset files. Submit both .ipynb and .pdf files, name your files
First_Lastname_FinalProject.ipynb.
Grading Guidelines
This assignment is worth 100 points + 10 points bonus. Your
assignment will be evaluated based on a successful compilation
and adherence to the program requirements. We will grade
according to the following criteria:

4. · 15 pts for project proposal
· 50 pts for implementation
· 25 pts for relevance/originality of project
· 25 pts for technical rigor and complexity
· 35 pts for technical reporting in a Jupyter Notebook
ENG102 English Composition II
Documented Literary Analysis
The purpose of a documented literary analysis essay is to
carefully examine
and sometimes evaluate a work of literature or an aspect of a
work of literature and
to use sources of outside literary criticism to help you make
your argument.
Examining the different elements of a piece of literature is a
process to help you
better appreciate and understand the work of literature as a
whole. For instance, an
analysis of a poem might deal with the different types of images
in a poem or with
the relationship between the form and content of the work.
Analyzing a short story
might include identifying a particular theme (like the difficulty
of making the

5. transition from adolescence to adulthood) and showing how the
writer suggests
that theme through the point of view from which the story is
told. You might also
explain how the main character’s attitude toward women is
revealed through his
dialogue and/or actions.
An essay in general has particular elements and a particular
form because it
serves a specific purpose. Keeping this in mind, consider what
an essay is and what
it does. An essay is a relatively short written composition that
articulates, supports,
and develops an idea or claim. It aims to explain something
complex. Explaining in
this case entails both analysis (breaking the complex "thing"
down into its
constituent parts and showing how they work together to form a
meaningful whole)
and argument (working to convince someone that the analysis is
valid). In an essay
about literature, the literary work is the complex thing that you
are helping a reader

6. to better understand. The essay needs to show the reader a
particular way to
understand the work, to interpret or read it.
To achieve these ends, an essay must incorporate certain
elements: a clear thesis, a
coherent structure, and ample, appropriate evidence.
Choosing a Topic
You can write about one or a combination of the works that we
have read
throughout the course. If you are examining a short story/stories
in your essay, your
paper could be centered on one or a combination of the
following elements of
fiction:
ot)

7. If you are examining a poem/poems in your essay, your paper
could be centered on
one or a combination of the following elements of poetry:
(personification, simile, metaphor)
You could write about one story or poem. You could even write
about a couple of
works in a comparison or contrast type paper. For instance, you
could contrast two
characters from two different stories. You could write about
one element. You could
also “mix and match” the elements of fiction or poetry and
argue that the
writer/poet uses several of the elements to achieve a desired
effect in a particular
work.
Forming a Thesis
Think of framing up your thesis in a manner similar to this one:
In (title of work),
(author) uses (one aspect) to (define, strengthen, illustrate) the
(element/s of
work).
Example: In “Youth,” Conrad uses foreshadowing to strengthen
the plot.

8. Example: In “Because I could not stop for Death,” Dickinson
uses personification and
imagery to depict the speaker’s experience with death.
Establishing a Structure
The structure of the literary analysis essay will follow the usual
structure of an
essay: an introductory paragraph (with thesis), body paragraphs
(at least three),
and a concluding paragraph. Your body will be structured
around the element/s
being examined about the work.
Using Evidence to Support the Thesis
Evidence to support your thesis will come from two sources: the
work itself and
from published literary criticism of the work. You will
incorporate the evidence into
your essay either by directly quoting or paraphrasing the
material.
Additional Notes about the Essay
thereafter, use the

9. last name.
present tense, a
practice that can take some getting used to. The rationale is that
the action
within any literary work never stops; a text simply, always is.
Therefore, you
will write your literary analysis essay using primarily present
tense verbs.
However, if you include historical references, those references
will require
past tense verbs.
second person “you”
outside of the confines of quotation marks.
Format/Requirements of the Literary Analysis Essay
the works
cited page)
-
spaced text, one-

10. inch margins, appropriate student and class information at the
left
margin of the first page, and a running header on every page
Boutwell 3
Stephen Boutwell
Mrs.Watts
ENG102 English Composition II
03/15/2020
The Cask of Amontillado; Setting
The Cask of Amontillado was written in 1846 by American
author Edgar Allan Poe, which is often considered as one of the
best short stories of all time. It also follows the literary theories
of Poe in which he described short stories as the piece which
can be read in a one sitting and every sentence of short stories
contributes in the overall setting of the story and produce a
significant impact on the whole story which contains several
ironies, in case of ‘Cask of Amontillado’. In this story, each
word is contributing in defining the whole meaning of the theme
i.e. creepy and elegant fictitious story of revenge and at the
same time setting of the story emphasizes the horror and the
theme of gothic fiction by creating a gothic interior which gives

11. the feeling of being trapped and readers can feel the tension
during the whole story. In this essay, the setting of ‘Cask of
Amontillado’ is analyzed on the geographical and physical basis
and it represents how these settings influence the development
of the story.
The story is set in the underground catacomb that is present in
Italy and the story is in the carnival season. This setting
represents the contrast in confinement and freedom of the
characters during the whole story which forms the basis of the
gothic interior. While reading, readers feel that feeling of being
trapped in one second and next minute, the feeling of being
trapped prevails. The creation of the gothic interior represents
the emotional situation of the characters and the story and
makes readers attentive to what is happening in the story with
keen curiosity. The story slowly moves from the complete
freedom to the confinement with regular intervals which is
emphasized by the setting of the Cask. The whole setting is
damp and dark in which even the walls are damped and the area
is filled with litter which shows the mind of characters that how
Fortunato is planning a dirty game in his mind. There is mix of
casks of wine everywhere which further increase the gothic
interior of the setting. Flambeaux carried by man represents that
in the darkness, there is still hope of little light. The irony in
the story begins by showing the festive of carnival in the gothic
setting which is quite unlikely and ironic.
Italy as a country does not fit into the setting of the gothic
interior because of its social history but the first-ever famous
gothic story ‘The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story; by Horace
Walpole was based in Italy which formed this narrative as it
was a huge success. It could be the inspiration behind the
choice of Italy as a country in this story. So the selection of
Italy to show the contrast between confinement and freedom
was not completely accidental in nature. However, the choice of
the carnival season is not indirect because it shows the feeling
of liberalism and freedom incomplete sense, in which both the
families of Montresor and Fortunato have participated since the

12. beginning of this story and the Montresor family catacomb
shows the symbol of confinement in the story. The horror and
irony of the story are further emphasized by the fact that it is
not only taking place in the damp and confined places but also
at the time of night which increases the mysterious character. It
also shows that the period in which the story was written was
contemporary to the story because of the details of the setting.
However, as the story proceeds, the journey of Montresor and
Fortunato shows how they are moving from large spaces to the
smaller ones. It represents their journey away from the freedom
as the fresh air around them starts to fade away when they are
moving into the smaller tunnels. It shows that they are leaving
freedom. In the end, finally, Fortunato is trapped in a place
without any freedom of his own. He is chained and trapped
inside the crypt that is hard of a man-size in which he does not
have any air and at the same time, does not have any way out to
regain his lost freedom. However, Montresor has all the
freedom in comparison to Fortunato who is trapped and they
both are in opposite conditions because Montresor is alive and
free. However, it is ironic that Montresor is alive and free but at
the same time, he is trapped in this story as he is still telling
about it. His mind cannot forget this story because he is still
inside that tunnel with Fortunato inside his head.
The setting of the story is described and specified in detail to
emphasize the deeper meaning. The Cask of Amontillado is the
perfect example of the short gothic story in which everything is
adding up to the meaning of the story as it is seen by the
selection of the country and the setting. The freedom in the
confinement is shown by the carnival setting and one or two
flame lights in the streets. It also represents the state of mind of
Montresor that how he is free but is trapped inside the whole
situation as the carnival setting is just the illusion of freedom in
the dark sinister setting of the area. The geographical and
physical setting in the story emphasized the themes of irony,
creepiness and the idea of revenge.

13. Work Cited
Poe, Edgar Allan. The cask of amontillado. Prabhat Prakashan,
1981.
Boutwell
1
Stephen Boutwell
Mrs.Watts
E
NG102
English
Composition
II
03/15
/2020
The Cask of Amontillado; Setting
The Cask of Amontillado was written in 1846 by American
author Edgar Allan Poe, which
is often considered as one of the best short stories of all time. It
also follows the literary theories
of Poe in which he described short stories as the piece which
can
be read in a one sitting and every
sentence of short stories contributes in the overall setting of the
story and produce a significant

14. impact on the whole story which contains several ironies, in
case of ‘Cask of Amontillado’. In this
story, each word is c
ontributing in defining the whole meaning of the theme i.e.
creepy and elegant
fictitious story of revenge and at the same time setting of the
story emphasizes the horror and the
theme of gothic fiction by creating a gothic interior which gives
the feeling
of being trapped and
readers can feel the tension during the whole story. In this
essay, the setting of ‘Cask of
Amontillado’ is analyzed on the geographical and physical basis
and it represents how these
settings influence the development of the story.
The story is set in the underground catacomb that is present in
Italy and the story is in the
carnival season. This setting represents the contrast in
confinement and freedom of the characters
during the whole story which forms the basis of the gothic inte
rior. While reading, readers feel that
feeling of being trapped in one second and next minute, the
feeling of being trapped prevails. The
Boutwell 1
Stephen Boutwell
Mrs.Watts
ENG102 English Composition II
03/15/2020
The Cask of Amontillado; Setting
The Cask of Amontillado was written in 1846 by American
author Edgar Allan Poe, which
is often considered as one of the best short stories of all time. It
also follows the literary theories

15. of Poe in which he described short stories as the piece which
can be read in a one sitting and every
sentence of short stories contributes in the overall setting of the
story and produce a significant
impact on the whole story which contains several ironies, in
case of ‘Cask of Amontillado’. In this
story, each word is contributing in defining the whole meaning
of the theme i.e. creepy and elegant
fictitious story of revenge and at the same time setting of the
story emphasizes the horror and the
theme of gothic fiction by creating a gothic interior which gives
the feeling of being trapped and
readers can feel the tension during the whole story. In this
essay, the setting of ‘Cask of
Amontillado’ is analyzed on the geographical and physical basis
and it represents how these
settings influence the development of the story.
The story is set in the underground catacomb that is present in
Italy and the story is in the
carnival season. This setting represents the contrast in
confinement and freedom of the characters
during the whole story which forms the basis of the gothic
interior. While reading, readers feel that
feeling of being trapped in one second and next minute, the
feeling of being trapped prevails. The
Walker 1
John Walker
Mrs. Sharon Watts
ENG102 English Composition II

16. 2 May 2018
The Conflict of Marriage
In marriage, everything is not always as happy as it sometimes
seems. In Kate Chopin’s
“The Story of an Hour,” Mrs. Louise Mallard is in conflict after
the reported death of her
husband. She is not satisfied with the relationship she has with
him in which he, as her husband
in the 1800s, is able to exercise his complete will over hers.
Thus, Mrs. Mallard experiences a
conflict within herself over her unusual reaction to the death of
her loved one. Mrs. Mallard, who
has a weak heart, experiences a range of emotions caused by
events that only fate could have
caused to happen as they do. Mrs. Mallard is a character who is
in conflict with her husband and
society, herself, and fate throughout the events of the story.
First, Mrs. Mallard is struggling in her relationship with her
husband, Brently Mallard,
because of society’s view of roles in a marriage. Chopin writes
of Mrs. Mallard’s feelings for her
husband, “And yet she had loved him--sometimes. Often she
had not” (296). Mrs. Mallard is in

17. conflict with Mr. Mallard because of the way the society of the
time period allows the husband to
exercise dominance over the wife in the guise of love. Berkove
states, “It is obvious that there is
quite a discrepancy between the way Louise and Brently
Mallard feel about each other, but all
the mystery of the difference is on Louise's side. Whatever her
original reason had been for
marrying Brently, it is clear now that feeling the way she does
about him she would be better off
not being married” (154). Chopin further reveals Mrs. Mallard’s
thoughts about life without her
husband when the author writes, “There would be powerful will
bending hers in that blind
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persistence with which men and women believe they have a
right to impose a private will upon a
fellow creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the
act seem no less a crime as she
looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination” (296).
Louise no longer wishes to have a

18. relationship with and is downtrodden by the thought of a future
life with Brently.
Furthermore, Mrs. Mallard is in conflict with herself over her
reaction to her husband’s
death. Chopin describes Louise Mallard as not being like a
normal woman who receives the
news of her husband’s tragic, unexpected death. The author
writes, “She did not hear the story
as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability
to accept its significance. She
wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment in her sister’s
arms” (Chopin 296). Papke states,
“Her response is atypical, however, and that is the subject of the
story: what Louise thinks and
feels as she finds herself thrust into solitude and self-
contemplation for the first time” (Koloski
133). Mrs. Mallard continues not to process the death of her
husband with the normal
response. When she is in her room alone and the new feeling
approaches her, she longs to be
able to suppress the unusual response. Berkove argues, “Louise
also recognizes self-assertion "as
the strongest impulse of her being. This is a peculiar value for a
married person and is indeed

19. incompatible with marriage, where an emphasis upon shared
goals and mutual commitment is
the opposite of self-assertion” (153). When she goes to her
room alone and is trying to fight back
the feeling coming to her, she is conflicted because she knows
the joy of her newfound freedom
is not what she should be experiencing.
Probably the most forceful conflict present in the story is Mrs.
Mallard’s conflict with
fate. To begin, it is certainly fate that causes the family friend,
Richards, to be present in the
telegram office to receive the news of the husband’s death “with
Brently Mallard’s name leading
the list of killed” (Chopin 296) and to be ready to deliver that
news to Mrs. Mallard in her
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weakened state. Moreover, it is fate that allows Mrs. Mallard,
with her weak heart, to become so
joyful about life that she goes down the stairs feeling like a
goddess who can never die. It is fate
again that allows Brently Mallard to come through the door
alive. Cunningham writes:

20. Chopin pays a great deal of attention to two areas of Louise's
experience: the
strain placed upon her physical system by the various shocks--
the surprise of her
husband's death, the grief that this news brings, the realization
that her life is now
utterly changed, and the understanding that this change is quite
possibly for the
better--that sweep over her, and the strain upon her spiritual
outlook as she
struggles to understand the apparent freedom opened to her.
(50)
All of the conflict present in Chopin’s short story seems to be
resolved, as it is so often in
literature, with the protagonist’s death. The irony that Mrs.
Mallard dies surprising death at the
end. Mrs. Mallard, of course, is no longer in conflict with her
husband and society, herself, or
fate. In fact, it is fate who has been merciful and makes Mrs.
Mallard ultimately “Free! Body
and soul free!” (Chopin 296) through her death.

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Works Cited
Berkove, Lawrence I. "Fatal Self-Assertion in Kate Chopin's
'The Story of an Hour'." Twentieth-
Century Literary Criticism, edited by Janet Witalec, vol. 127,
Gale, 2002. Literature
Resource Center,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1420056308/GLS?u=avlr&
sid=GLS&xid=fee3dd8f
. Accessed 15 Apr. 2018. Originally published in American
Literary Realism, vol. 32, no.
2, Winter 2000, pp. 152-158.
Chopin, Kate. "The Story of an Hour." The World's Best Short
Stories: Anthology & Criticism,
vol. 3: Famous Stories, Roth Publishing, 1990, p. 296. The
World's Best Series.
LitFinder,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/LTF0000119071WK/GLS?u
=avlr&sid=GLS&xid=a1
94aafa. Accessed 15 Apr. 2018.
Cunningham, Mark. "The Autonomous Female Self and the

22. Death of Louise Mallard in Kate
Chopin's 'Story of an Hour.'." Short Story Criticism, edited by
Jelena Krstovic, vol. 110,
Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1420082721/GLS?u=avlr&
sid=GLS&xid=2a55c9e
8. Accessed 15 Apr. 2018. Originally published in English
Language Notes, vol. 42, no.
1, Sept. 2004, pp. 48-55.
Koloski, Bernard. "Mary E. Papke on “the Story of an Hour”."
Kate Chopin: A Study of the Short
Fiction, Twayne Publishers, 1996, pp. 132-134. Twayne's
Studies in Short Fiction 65.
Twayne's Authors Series,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX1706800036/GLS?u=avlr
&sid=GLS&xid=9b754e
5d. Accessed 15 Apr. 2018.
Identifying Sources of Literary Criticism
rary at www.avl.lib.al.us

23. the search box
and then click the hourglass to perform the search
list of results. Look on the right hand
side of the screen
and find the options under “Content Types.”
actual work at
the “Primary Sources & Literary Works” link.
content types links at which you will find the
two sources of
literary criticism you will need for your papers:
o “Topic & Work Overviews” – Begin your search here.
o “Literary Criticism” – Move to this link if you do not find
your two

24. sources at the “Topic & Work Overviews” link.
o You will move through the list of search results at these two
links,
skimming each search result to see if the particular article is
one that
you can use in your essay. In your search, you are looking to
find
articles that match the argument from the thesis of your essay.
For
example, if you are writing about the setting of a work, you will
search for articles that address the setting of the story.
o Once you find an article you want to use, you can print the
article,
email a link to the article to yourself, or save the article on a
flash
drive.
http://www.avl.lib.al.us/