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

Predicting Customer Order Probabilities

Students of UBC’s Master of Data Science program in Vancouver worked with Fresh Prep to design a dashboard tool that not only helped the meal kit delivery company predict its future orders but also provided the insights needed to help Fresh Prep better serve its existing customers and improve their order rate.

Delivering Better Care Through Education

In partnership with QxMD—a Vancouver-based digital learning technology company—students from UBC’s Master of Data Science program created a tool to identify trending health topics within news articles and match these with relevant medical journal articles. Thus helping medical professionals better serve patients with questions related to specific news articles they’ve read.

Preparing for the Next Chapter of Culture in Kelowna

In partnership with the City of Kelowna, students of UBC’s Master of Data Science Okanagan program trained machines to uncover trends and insights into the community’s cultural needs. The knowledge gained not only helped inform the City’s Cultural Plan, it helped the local government connect in a real way with its citizens.

Vancouver

Quantifying the Responses to Open-Ended Survey Questions

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

Integrated Transportation Department – Bikeshare Data Analysis

Past Capstone Projects

	2018: Helping AI Recognize Intent
	2017: Bringing clarity to transit congestion
	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
	2017: Visualizing massive open online courses