Below is a random assortment of project ideas. If any of them speak to you, please let me know so we can chat about them. Sometimes these are coming from people in the community (non-profits) or researchers in other fields, and we can discuss the context to make the project even better.
Super tentative— the American Antiquarian society is in Worcester.
Do they have open datasets?
There is a good line of work in visualization geared towards the humanities, e.g. https://nightingaledvs.com/paperbase-a-window-into-photographic-paper-history/?utm_source=DVS+members&utm_campaign=47dff16964-Mailchimp_This-Week-in-Dataviz-april-7-2025&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_22843b2bbe-47dff16964-44758133&mc_cid=47dff16964&mc_eid=699c5ce46e
Use the OpenTLDR framework to build an interface that incorporates LLM summarization + recommendation + knowledge graphs.
Python skills required + desire to build front-end multi view visualizations.
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/data-we-collect/nsduh-national-survey-drug-use-and-health/datafiles
recommended my umass med person