Partners

One of the strengths of the Master of Data Science at UBC is its extensive network of industry partners. These partners were key contributors to the the design of the program, and also 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

Helping AI Recognize Intent

Students from UBC’s Master of Data Science program worked with banking software company, Finn Ai, to pinpoint areas for improvement in the way their conversational assistants understand and respond to customer needs.

Bringing clarity to transit congestion

In Vancouver, one of North America’s most traffic-congested cities, TransLink’s largest operator, Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC), enlisted the help of data scientists to improve the reliability of its service, today and into the future. Working with students from the UBC Master of Data Science program, CMBC tested a forecasting model that maps congestion hotspots and records any trends between scheduled run times and actual run times.

Visualizing massive open online courses

UBC offers massive online courses to thousands of students. The challenge for instructors of such courses is that they cannot observe student engagement directly. Students from the UBC Master of Data Science program partnered with Ido Roll from UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology to give instructors tools to better understand their students and how they are engaging with the course material

Vancouver

Quantifying the Responses to Open-Ended Survey Questions

Project #1: Match real-time news stories with medical literature

Project #2: Generate cross-product recommendations

Automated Landslide Detection and Delineation from LiDAR Images

Extracting a Corporate Social Network from SEC Filings

Enhancing the Teejlab Analyzer for Data Service Agreements

Improving Labour Forecasting to Promote the Competitiveness of BC Ports

Forecasting of Staffing Needs

Project #1: Predict Rock Type with High Accuracy before Blasting

Project #2: Implementing a CNN to Segment Rock Types

NA62 Particle Classification

Estimate the Value of Key Local attributes used in buying decisions

What the Git is going on here? Github Analysis

Indicators of Crash Severity

Forecasting Restaurant Sales with Mobile Device Location Data

Seahorse Strategies: Predicting the Stock Market

Okanagan


Project #1: Developing open data statistics with the Open Database of Buildings Project #2: Data Visualization Project on a Food/Nutrition Data Model	Determinations of Populations affected by Fatal and Non-fatal Overdoses

Sampling Methodology for Time-Dependent Data	Using Machine Learning for Sentiment Analysis in Survey Text Responses

Customer Engagement Factors for Online Marketing	Marketing Campaign Visualization and Audience Impact

Project #1: Cultural Services Branch – Analysis and Visualization of Cultural Sector Data for City of Kelowna Project #2: Integrated Transportation Department – Bikeshare Data Analysis

Past Capstone Projects

	2017: Tools for Analyzing Mining Drill Data
	2018: Binary Classification of Leaf Wetness Using Sensor Data
	2018: Automated Human Resources Insight Discovery
	2018: Web traffic Prediction for msn.com
	2018: Predicting Conversion Rates for Tourism Advertisements on Facebook and Instagram
	2018: Using Survival Analysis to Finding Leading Indicators of Customer Churn 2017: Unbounce Community Forum Analysis
	2018: Building a Recommendation System for Medical Research Papers
	2018: Discovering Thematic Categories from Survey Comments 2017: Empowering Employee Engagement through AI - Government of BC
	2018: Anomaly Detection and Flood Forecasting using Real-time Hydrometric Data
	2018: Extracting Features from Financial Documents for Predicting Firm Performance
	2018: Automated Legal Risk Assessment on Web Service License Changes