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[[MMSS]] students have the option of participating in the police projects for their senior thesis as opposed to conducting an individual thesis project. Students in the police projects work in teams of two to three and take on a participating police department as a client for data analysis. Under the supervision of advisor Dr. Mark Iris, the police project “match[es] police agencies with high volumes of data in need of analysis with students having strong quantitative analytical skills who are in need of data for their senior year theses”, culminating in a presentation of those results in the spring <ref>[http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=3388&issue_id=62014], Police Chief Magazine Archives.</ref>. The following police departments are among those who have collaborated with MMSS students: Los Angeles, Long Beach, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Houston, and Chicago. | |||
==Usage== | ==Usage== | ||
This term is used by students, staff and faculty in the Mathematical Methods of the Social Sciences program in mainly informal contexts. It can be both written and spoken. | This term is used by students, staff and faculty in the Mathematical Methods of the Social Sciences program in mainly informal contexts. It can be both written and spoken. | ||
==Example Sentence== | ==Example Sentence== | ||
''I think I’m going to do the police project next year; I’ve always wanted to work in the law enforcement field.'' | |||
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Revision as of 12:19, 6 June 2015
Part of Speech
Noun
Pronunciation
[‘puh lees / ‘praw jekt]
Description
MMSS students have the option of participating in the police projects for their senior thesis as opposed to conducting an individual thesis project. Students in the police projects work in teams of two to three and take on a participating police department as a client for data analysis. Under the supervision of advisor Dr. Mark Iris, the police project “match[es] police agencies with high volumes of data in need of analysis with students having strong quantitative analytical skills who are in need of data for their senior year theses”, culminating in a presentation of those results in the spring [1]. The following police departments are among those who have collaborated with MMSS students: Los Angeles, Long Beach, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Houston, and Chicago.
Usage
This term is used by students, staff and faculty in the Mathematical Methods of the Social Sciences program in mainly informal contexts. It can be both written and spoken.
Example Sentence
I think I’m going to do the police project next year; I’ve always wanted to work in the law enforcement field.
