The Master of Data Science program at UBC works with an extensive network of partners including start-ups, government, higher education, IT, finance, etc.... These partners were key contributors to the the design of the program, and also continue to provide students with the opportunity to get real-world experience in a variety of different roles and industries through their eight-week capstone project.
Featured Capstone Projects
Biba Ventures - MDS Vancouver
Using Machine Learning to Predict Playground Usage
A team of UBC MDS Vancouver students worked with Biba, a smart playground company, to build several learning models in order to estimate the number of monthly sessions at particular playgrounds within a given month.
Statistics Canada - MDS Okanagan
In the past, Statistics Canada developed network accessibility measures based on the distance of driving and walking to compute proximity scores for various types of amenities. However, the importance of public transit as a primary mode of travel has not been included and accessibility measures based on time using transit have never been incorporated into proximity scores. This is why Statistics Canada enlisted the help of a team of students from UBC’s Master of Data Science Okanagan program to help develop a high-performing, efficient and scalable model for computing and visualizing public transit accessibility across Canadian metropolitan areas.
UBC Linguistics - MDS Computational Linguistics
As a result of a question posed by UBC Linguistics and French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies faculty, a group of UBC MDS Computational Linguistics students embarked on the first phase of a project that could improve graded readers for any language. The capstone project focused on A1, A2, and B level documents for the Spanish language, but it laid the foundation for the creation of a universal reader.
Vancouver
Canadian Campus Wellbeing Survey and UBC
Impact of COVID-19 on Student Mental Health: Lessons from the CCWS
Citysage by Reliance Foundry
LiDAR Object Detection and Classification for Cities
Corporate Finance Institute Education Inc.
Project #1: Recency, Frequency, and Monetary Value Analysis (RFM)
Project #2: Sales Forecasting
Defined Finance Ltd.
DeFi Dashboard: Follow and Forecast the Money
Glentel
Project #1: Practical People Analytics for Predicting Employee Performance
Goldspot Discoveries Corp.
Project #1 Detection and Mitigation of Data Drift and Model D
Hero Ventures
Seahorse Strategies: Data Analytics for Stock Market Trading
Olyns
Prune CNN Models to Help People Go Green
OraQ AI
NLP to Untangle the Complex Web of Dental Conditions
Population Health Surveillance and Epidemiology, Office of the Provincial Health Officer, Province of British Columbia
BC Chronic Disease Visualization and Trend Analysis with R Shiny
Riversol Skincare Solutions Inc.
Forecasting the Success of Online Lead Generation
Rocketbrew Inc.
Creating (figurative) ecommerce shopping aisles with ML
Sensing in Biomechanical Processes Lab (SimPL)
Towards a Simplified Method for Video Confirmation of Head Impact Events in Contact Sports
Sensorimotor Physiology Laboratory, School of Kinesiology, UBC
Decomposition of Muscle Activity for Sensorimotor Neuroscience
Sitewise Analytics
Determining Restaurant Sales Performance Drivers through Feature Selection
Suncor Energy Inc.
Modelling Heat Exchanger Units to Optimize Cleaning Schedules
Teejlab Inc. and UBC Sauder
An Analytical Framework for Quantifying API Risks
Trusting Pixels
Project #1: Image Comparison Analysis
Project #2: Photo Within Photo Detection
UBC Animal Welfare Program
Cow Bonds: Visualizing and Assessing Changes in the Social Networks of Dairy Cows
Vancouver Whitecaps
Project #1: Disruptive Defending – Using Optical Tracking and Event Data to Evaluate MLS Players’ Defensive Performance
Project #2: Passing Perfection – Using Optical Tracking and Event Data to Evaluate MLS Player's Passing Tendencies
Viewpoint AI
Decision Support: Choose your Best Career Path
Westland Insurance
Predicting Customer Retention
World Bank
How Quickly Can South Asia Transition to a Green Economy?
Okanagan
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Science and Technology Branch
Exploring Optimal Machine Learning Models for Predicting Crop Yield at Township Level
Hockey Canada
Growth and Retention Strategy – Data and Research Analysis
JustPractice Technologies Inc.
Siemens Healthineers
Anomaly Detection in Biosensor Waveforms
Statistics Canada
Project #1: Assessing Google Trends Data
Project #2: Innovating with Web-Scraped Data to Inform Impact Canada’s Challenges
Project #3: Analysis of Rural Business Performance
Terra Sense Analytics Ltd.
Increase Performance of a Deep Learning Instance Segmentation Model Using Data Augmentation and Model Refinement
Computational Linguistics
BGC Engineering
Social Landslides: Improve NASA Global Landslide Catalog with Automated Social Media Mining
British Columbia Investment Management Corp. (BCI)
What Can SEC 10-K Textual Disclosures Tell Us About Climate Risk?
Corporate Finance Institute Education Inc.
Course Writing Style Analysis / Learner Feedback Analysis
CultureFoundry
Ojibwe Conjugator Python Rewrite
Heyday by Hootsuite
Is it “Yes” or “No”: Negation-Aware Named Entity Recognition in the E-commerce Domain
Katalon Inc.
Autonomous Software Testing Generation
SAP
ClearlyDefined: Intelligently Summarizing Software Licenses
Seasalt.ai
Project #1: Bridging the Chasm: from Voice Data to Voice Intelligence
Past Capstone Projects
aDolus - MDS Vancouver
2020: Unearthing Hidden Vulnerabilities in Mission Critical Software
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - MDS Okanagan
2020: Improving Cherry Grading
Analytika - MDS Vancouver
2021: Transforming Customer Experiences
2020: Project #1: Smart Agriculture
2020: Project #2: Wells Timelines
BC Centre on Substance Abuse - MDS Vancouver
2021: Using Data Science to Identify and Visualize Novel Compounds in Illicit Drug Checking Samples
BC Stats - MDS Vancouver
2021: Understanding Voting Method Choices in the 2020 BC General Elections
2020: Text Analytics: Quantifying the Responses to Open-Ended Survey Questions
2019: Quantifying the Responses to Open-Ended Survey Question
2018: Discovering Thematic Categories from Survey Comments
2017: Empowering Employee Engagement through AI - Government of BC
BCMEA - MDS Vancouver
2019: Improving Labour Forecasting to Promote the Competitiveness of BC Ports
Better Dwelling - MDS Computational Linguistics
2020: Does News Report Manipulate Financial Markets
BGC Engineering - MDS Vancouver
2020: Project #1: How high’s is the water mama?…Data Driven Flood Forecasting
2020: Project #2: Undisclosed Tailings Dams…Automated Tailings Dam Detection from Satellite Data
2019: Automated Landslide Detection and Delineation from LiDAR Images
2018: Anomaly Detection and Flood Forecasting using Real-time Hydrometric Data
British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) - MDS Vancouver
2021: What Can SEC 10-K Textual Disclosures Tell Us About a Firm’s Earnings Quality and Future Stock Returns?
Cenovus - MDS Vancouver
2021: Using Time Series Temperature Data to Determine Well Productivity
City of Kelowna - MDS Okanagan
2019: Preparing for the Next Chapter of Culture in Kelowna
Coast Mountain Bus Company - MDS Vancouver
2017: Bringing clarity to transit congestion
CRIM - MDS Computational Linguistics
2020: Discovering Words by Their Neighbours: a Dissimilarity-Based Concordance
Destination British Columbia - MDS Vancouver
2018: Predicting Conversion Rates for Tourism Advertisements on Facebook and Instagram
Dialpad - MDS Computational Linguistics
Dialpad - MDS Vancouver
Project #1: Detecting Emerging Topics, Trends and Anomalies from Call Center Transcripts
Project #2: Understanding & Predicting Customer Satisfaction Using Vocal Features
E-Comm 9-1-1 - MDS Vancouver
2020: SOP Consolidation to Save Lives and Property
2019: Saving Lives and Protecting Property with a Predictive Staffing Model
Finn AI - MDS Vancouver
2018: Helping AI Recognize Intent
Fleetmetrica Inc. - MDS Okanagan
2021: Developing a Fleet Risk Model Using a Machine Learning Approach
Fresh Prep - MDS Vancouver
2019: Predicting Customer Order Probabilities
Gerontology and Diabetes Research Laboratory (GDRL) - MDS Vancouver
2021: Project #1: Machine Learning Approaches to Diagnosing Lipohypertrophy at the Bedside
2021: Project #2: Machine Learning Approaches to Falls Prediction in Long Term Care
GetintheLoop - MDS Okanagan
2019: Customer Engagement Factors for Online Marketing
Glentel - MDS Computational Linguistics
2021: Voice of Employee and Customer
Glentel - MDS Vancouver
2021: People Analytics
2020: Making sense of people data
Goldspot Discoveries - MDS Vancouver
2021: Automated Drill Core Logging Through the Lens of Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Government of Canada Web Analytics Team - MDS Computational Linguistics
2021: Capturing What Users go to Canada.ca to Do
Government of Canada Web Analytics Team - MDS Vancouver
2021: Determining the Use Cases Across Data Science Sub-Fields for the Government of Canada's Web Analytics Operations
Hero Ventures - MDS Vancouver
2020: Seahorse Strategies: Seahorse Momentum Indicator (SMI)
2019: Seahorse Strategies: Predicting the Stock Market
Hootsuite - MDS Vancouver
2021: Customer Segmentation Using Hootsuite Product Usage Data
Indeed - MDS Computational Linguistics
2021: Automatic Inference of Reader Attributed from Blog Content
Informed Opinions - MDS Computational Linguistics
2020: NLP for Social Change – The Gender Gap Tracker
Interior Health - MDS Okanagan
2020: Patterns of drug checking service use and results associated with a music festival in BC’s Interior region
2018: Determinations of Populations affected by Fatal and Non-fatal Overdoses
JustPractice Technologies Inc. - MDS Okanagan
2021: Identifying Patient Care Gaps Through the Analysis of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Data
Kelly Klee Insurance - MDS Okanagan
2020: Predictability of Kelly Klee Customers
MDA - MDS Vancouver
2020: Image Captioning of Overhead Earth Observation Imagery
Merchant Growth - MDS Vancouver
2020: Merchant Score: Intelligent Credit Decisioning for Risk Management
Microsoft - MDS Vancouver
2018: Web traffic Prediction for msn.com
Minerva Intelligence - MDS Computational Linguistics
2020: Mineral Occurrence Text Extractor
MNP Technology Solutions - MDS Okanagan
2021: E-commerce and it's Challenges
Newsly Technologies Inc. - MDS Vancouver
2021: Audio Listening Preferences
Okanagan Planning and Institutional Research - MDS Okanagan
2019: Using Machine Learning for Sentiment Analysis in Survey Text Responses
Orbis Investments - MDS Vancouver
2021: Earning Calls Deception Analysis
Pay by Phone - MDS Vancouver
2020: Crowdsourced parking locations
PaybyPhone - MDS Vancouver
Projectlink - MDS Okanagan
Properly Inc. - MDS Vancouver
2021: Image Processing: Quantifying the Home Condition from Property Images
Providence Health Care Providence Health Care - MDS Vancouver
2019: Forecasting of Staffing Needs
QxMD - MDS Vancouver
2019: Project #1: Generate cross-product recommendations
2019: Project #2: Delivering Better Care Through Education
2018: Building a Recommendation System for Medical Research Papers
Realtor.com - MDS Vancouver
2021: Project #1: Identifying Real Estate Investment Opportunities Using Machine Learning
2021: Project #2: Will They, or Won't They? Return User Prediction
2020: Photo-realistic Neighborhood Image SynthesisRelated Article
2019: Estimate the Value of Key Local attributes used in buying decisions
Rio Tinto - MDS Vancouver
2017: Tools for Analyzing Mining Drill Data
Riversol - MDS Vancouver
2020: E-Commerce Domination in Highly Competitive Markets Driven by Data Science
SAP and Teejlab - MDS Vancouver
2019: Enhancing the Teejlab Analyzer for Data Service Agreements
Scotiabank - MDS Okanagan
2019: Sampling Methodology for Time-Dependent Data
Seasalt.ai - MDS Computational Linguistics
2021: Happiness in One Model: Cross-Lingual NER for Low-Resource Languages
Seekers Media - MDS Okanagan
2019: Marketing Campaign Visualization and Audience Impact
Semios - MDS Vancouver
2018: Binary Classification of Leaf Wetness Using Sensor Data
Sensing in Biomechanical Processes Lab (SimPL) - MDS Vancouver
2021: Extracting and Visualizing the Human Brain State Using EEG Data
Siemens Healthineers - MDS Okanagan
2021: Image Classification of Biosensor Prints
Statistics Canada - MDS Okanagan
2021: Project #1: COVID-19 - Canadian Employment Wage Subsidy: An Analysis
2021: Project #2: Incorporating Public Transit into Measures of Accessibility
2021: Project #3: The Effects of Proximity to Services on Canadians’ Housing Conditions
2020: Bringing Understanding to the COVID-19 Outbreak in Ontario
Statistics Canada - MDS Okanagan
In partnership with Statistics Canada, students of UBC’s Master of Data Science Okanagan program used clustering methods, principal component analysis and principal component regression to provide greater insight into the spread of COVID-19 among of long-term care homes. The project showcased how leveraging various open data sources can produce comprehensive and meaningful results.
TeejLab - MDS Vancouver
2018: Automated Legal Risk Assessment on Web Service License Changes
Tetrad - MDS Vancouver
2019: Forecasting Restaurant Sales with Mobile Device Location Data
The Deetken Group - MDS Vancouver
2020: Evolving Vancouver: Forecasting the Evolution of Vancouver's Business Landscape
The Sea Around Us - MDS Computational Linguistics
2021: Estimation of Worldwide MPAS Protection through a Novel Questionnaire
Thomson Reuters - MDS Computational Linguistics
2021: Improving Search with Deep Learning for a Marketing Leading Accounting Research Platform
Translink - MDS Vancouver
2020: Project #1: Vision over Transit Incidents & Claims
2020: Project #2: “Why is my bus late?” Understanding Bus Delay in Metro Vancouver
2020: Project #3: Optimizing Transit Stops
TRIUMF - MDS Vancouver
2019: NA62 Particle Classification
Two Hat Security Research - MDS Okanagan
2020: Identification of Patterns and Metrics to Distinguish Toxic and Non-Toxic Reddit Communities
UBC (Urban Data Lab) - MDS Okanagan
2021: UBC Sustainability Performance Dashboard
UBC (Urban Data Lab) - MDS Okanagan
2020: Building Energy Use Profile Visualizations
UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology - MDS Vancouver
2017: Visualizing massive open online courses
UBC Sauder School of Business - MDS Vancouver
2019: Extracting a Corporate Social Network from SEC Filings
2018: Extracting Features from Financial Documents for Predicting Firm Performance
UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law - MDS Computational Linguistics
2020: Analysis of BC Negligence Decisions over 20 years
Unbounce - MDS Computational Linguistics
2020: Closing the Feedback Loop: Identifying Customer Pain Points through NLP
Unbounce - MDS Vancouver
2018: Using Survival Analysis to Finding Leading Indicators of Customer Churn
University of British Columbia - MDS Vancouver
Urban Logiq - MDS Vancouver
2020: Project #1: Analysis of Connected Vehicle Driving Behaviour as a Predictor of Accidents
Related Article
2019: Indicators of Crash Severity
Vancouver Whitecaps - MDS Vancouver
2021: Project #1: Football Fortune Telling: Predicting MLS Performance
2021: Project #2: Match Fit - Using Optical Tracking Data to Evaluate MLS Players’ Power, Fitness & Fatigue
2020: Project #1: Modelling the Physical Performance of the Vancouver Whitecaps
Related Article
2020: Project #2: Winning the Goal Differential Race
Visier - MDS Vancouver
2018: Automated Human Resources Insight Discovery
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