Elizabeth Hau

Public speaking can be challenging and nerve-wracking, but having good speaking skills for giving presentations and disseminating ideas is both essential and practical. People often unknowingly use filler words such as “umm”, “uhh”, or “like” while giving presentations, and it would be good to make them more aware of how often they use these words.

This is a program that would analyze a given speech and count the number of filler words used, provided the filler words the program should… Show more

Public speaking can be challenging and nerve-wracking, but having good speaking skills for giving presentations and disseminating ideas is both essential and practical. People often unknowingly use filler words such as “umm”, “uhh”, or “like” while giving presentations, and it would be good to make them more aware of how often they use these words.

This is a program that would analyze a given speech and count the number of filler words used, provided the filler words the program should look for in the speech. The goal of this project is to build a tool that could provide feedback to people as they try to improve their public speaking skills. Show less

Worked on a modified version of a SemEval 2016 challenge (Task 4-C) of classifying tweets such that given a tweet about a public figure, we can classify its sentiment on a 3-point polarity scale. We achieved an accuracy of 48.3% given a baseline of 45.8%

Created a web application to help current Wellesley students and alumnae connect with each other across departments.

Technologies used: PHP, MySQL

Built a program to automate the Housing department’s process of sorting 2000 students into their residence halls for the following academic year.

Prior to this project, the process of sorting over 2000 Wellesley College students into their residence halls for the upcoming year was an entirely manual process that would take over 3 months from collecting student preferences, ranking them, sorting by hand, and then sending out result.

With our tool, students submit a Google form… Show more

Built a program to automate the Housing department’s process of sorting 2000 students into their residence halls for the following academic year.

Prior to this project, the process of sorting over 2000 Wellesley College students into their residence halls for the upcoming year was an entirely manual process that would take over 3 months from collecting student preferences, ranking them, sorting by hand, and then sending out result.

With our tool, students submit a Google form, staff in the housing department would download the form results in a csv file and feed it into our program and voilà! the sorting results will be available in less than 1 second. Show less

Co-Presenter, "The Wellesley College Housing Lottery: Version 2.0"
Revamping the housing lottery seemed a perfect fit with our newly acquired programming and data manipulation skills. Previously, Wellesley has used minimal technology in the process of sorting students into their residence halls for the following year. We found that many elements could be automated. This inspired us write a computer program to maximize the efficiency of all
parties involved.
Our program provides one… Show more

Co-Presenter, "The Wellesley College Housing Lottery: Version 2.0"
Revamping the housing lottery seemed a perfect fit with our newly acquired programming and data manipulation skills. Previously, Wellesley has used minimal technology in the process of sorting students into their residence halls for the following year. We found that many elements could be automated. This inspired us write a computer program to maximize the efficiency of all
parties involved.
Our program provides one solution to the existing system. Our proposed solution mostly impacts the administrative side by removing the need to manually sort roughly 2,300 pieces of paper, one for each student on campus. We also hope to make it more convenient for students to complete and submit their housing preferences online, instead of printing and delivering forms. This project has enabled us to experience working on a large scale project, communicating with a “client,” and applying the tools we have learned in the classroom thus far. Show less