• At-Risk students prediction using machine learning 

      Ledain Gentillon, Reginald (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2019)
      This article intends to discover how machine learning can be used to predict at-risk students during the school year. Different algorithms were tested within a common framework to compare their accuracy and their ...
    • Authenticity Access and Temperature Monitoring of Students to the Public System of the Puerto Rico Department of Education 

      González Hernández, Javier (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2022)
      This project consists of creating a system to authenticate and monitor students' temperature at the entrance of a school. The system will have a student's ID barcode scanner, temperature measurement, hand washing, ...
    • Automated Data Acquisition using Microsoft Excel 

      Martínez González, Luis F. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2016)
      The process of Web Scraping allows the automated extraction of data from an entire website and turn it into a tabular dataset that can be used for reporting and analysis. There are numerous techniques and tools for web ...
    • Automated Services Order System 

      Díaz Carcache, Rafael E. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2013)
      It is very common to see that in many restaurants, whether they are economic or gourmet, the customer always has a problem when ordering or paying for his order. Some of the reasons for these situations can be caused ...
    • Banking Customer Data Analysis 

      Peralta Santiago, Anibal D. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2014)
      This paper focuses on making a Data Mining analysis on customer data from a bank. We try to apply different methodologies and prove some concepts using data. Some of the goals of this analysis is to produce results ...
    • Blockchain for Nuclear Facilities 

      Morales García, John E. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2018)
      Nuclear facilities are some of the most highly protected structures in the world. But rapid technological advances, terrorism and the cyberwarfare, has increased the threat of cybernetic attacks on nuclear facilities. ...
    • Breaking e-Discovery Barriers in Puerto Rico 

      Villanueva López, Marcos (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2017)
      Electronic discovery is the process of producing Electronically Stored Information (ESI) in the context of a legal process. ESI includes emails, files, social media, and website content among others. The different types ...
    • Business Intelligence Performance Optimization 

      Sierra, Ángel A. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2013)
      What happens when you are the Business Intelligence (BI) developer and you need to find a solution for an Analysis Service Job execution that takes more than 20 hours to process over 1.3 terra-bytes of data? This project ...
    • Capture the Flag (CTF): Website Tutorial to Boost Cybersecurity Training 

      Santiago Lozada, Reinaldo E. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2019)
      Cybersecurity is a new topic in many organizations, including educational organizations. This new field will have an increase, as new technologies emerged. For that reasons, in order to meet the cybersecurity personnel ...
    • Capture-The-Flag Framework and Virtual Environment for Cyber Security Education 

      Colón Pérez, Jadiel A. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2018)
      When studying cybersecurity or other computer-related technical careers, a problem among the students is the lack of hands-on experience. This can be solved by participating in internships, conferences, and ...
    • The change in airfare tickets based on the weekday and the continent 

      Santos Rodríguez, Gabriela (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2018)
      The purpose of this study is to help people understand the different theories that exist and to prove if any of the theories are actually effective when buying an airplane ticket. A research was conducted to have a ...
    • Computer Forensics Tutorial Disk File Systems (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS) 

      Rodríguez Justiniano, José M. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2011)
      Abstract - This tutorial is intended as in-class laboratory exercise for computer forensics classes at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. It’s specifically designed to provide basic understanding on the functionalities ...
    • Cracking the Monoalphabetic Substitution Cipher 

      Santana, Carlos (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2022)
      Cryptography is the cornerstone of secure communication. It is the study of techniques by which a message, the plaintext, is transformed into an obfuscated form, the ciphertext. One of the earliest ...
    • Crímenes del Nuevo Siglo: Crímenes Cibernéticos, Abuso Cibernético, Acecho Cibernético, Pornografía Infantil y otros 

      Ortiz López, Carlos R. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2014)
      La tecnología ha acaparado la vida del ser humano a pasos agigantados. Es un hecho que la informática, como parte de dicho surgimiento, también se ha vuelto parte de nosotros. Pero con tal crecimiento, también han ...
    • Customer Support Tool 

      Castillo Rivera, Francisco J (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2018)
      Small sales companies rely on their customers’ satisfaction after sale has been made. A big part of a customer satisfaction relies on the customer support given to them after the product has been sold. The problem with ...
    • Data Culture in Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) 

      González Berrios, Gerardo (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2022)
      Non-profit organizations contribute to societies and are the first in natural disaster relief efforts. These must keep a record of the data to establish a correct analysis and be able to prepare the required reports in the ...
    • Data mining techniques and machine learning model for Walmart weekly sales forecast 

      Santaella Colón, José Gil (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2019)
      The ability to forecast data accurately is extremely valuable in a vast array of domains such as health, sales, finance, weather or sports. Presented here is the study and implementation of data mining techniques and ...
    • Data Mining Techniques for the Integrated Postsecondary Data System 

      Jiménez Vargas, Wilfredo (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2018)
      The Process of generating the necessary information for the Integrated Postsecondary Data System can be tedious; a standard way to collect the information for the different departments is needed. To process it, we use ...
    • Desarrollo de la Política de Seguridad de la Información: Cabrera Auto 

      Sevilla Maldonado, Jennifer (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2016)
      Actualmente las empresas de venta y renta de autos enfrentan una serie de cambios que las obliga a generar nuevas estrategias para la protección de la información que custodian. El aumento en casos de fraudes bancarios ...
    • Design of a Framework for the Best Practices in Computer Forensics within the Cybersecurity Infrastructure in the Regulated Industry 

      Vázquez Ruiz, Eduardo (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2019)
      We cannot ignore the fact that hackers have been evolving and growing to the level that there are more hackers with the attraction to do evil than Ethical Hackers. Cyber-attacks are a growing threat for companies, and ...