{"id":13595,"date":"2023-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/?p=13595"},"modified":"2023-05-15T09:29:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T16:29:24","slug":"identifying-economic-insights-in-fedexs-shipping-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2023\/identifying-economic-insights-in-fedexs-shipping-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifying Economic Insights in FedEx\u2019s Shipping Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"project-sponsor-dept-year\"><span class=\"project-sponsor\">FedEx<\/span> <span class=\"project-dept-year\">Computer Science, 2022\u201323<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"project-team\">\n<p><strong>Liaison(s):<\/strong> Sam Shojaei, Bryan Bunker, Clayton Clouse<br \/>\n<strong>Advisor(s):<\/strong> Zachary Dodds<br \/>\n<strong>Students(s):<\/strong> Justin Jiang (PM), Hannah Kyme, Henry Pick, Jessica Chavez, Nick Grisanti<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"project-abstract\">\n<p>Because of its broad reach with businesses and individuals, FedEx has long been considered a leading economic indicator. Our team has developed a correlation-based predictive model using FedEx\u2019s logistics data. We first identified a set of signals that hold predictive power with respect to economic target variables. We then combined those features into a single \u201cFedEx Index,\u201d akin to the Dow Jones and S&#038;P 500 indices, providing insight about the state and trends of the overall economy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FedEx Computer Science, 2022\u201323 Liaison(s): Sam Shojaei, Bryan Bunker, Clayton Clouse Advisor(s): Zachary Dodds Students(s): Justin Jiang (PM), Hannah Kyme, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[693],"class_list":["post-13595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","tag-fedex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13659,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595\/revisions\/13659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}