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

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.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - MDS Okanagan

Improving Cherry Grading

Agri-Food Canada enlisted the help of a team of students from the University of British Columbia’s Master of Data Science Okanagan program to help AAFC improve the overall efficiency of the tree fruit breeding process by providing unbiased and precise data on sweet cherry traits in an expedited fashion, while avoiding cost arising from unproductive procedures and human errors.

UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law - MDS Computational Linguistics

Analysis of BC Negligence Decisions over 20 years

In partnership with UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law, a group of UBC MDS Computational Linguistics students examined all negligence cases in BC between 2000 and 2020 in order to determine how damages and contributary negligence have been changing over time.

Vancouver

aDolus

Software File Clustering (What is this file?)

Analytika

Transforming Customer Experiences

BC Centre on Substance Abuse

Using Data Science to Identify and Visualize Novel Compounds in Illicit Drug Checking Samples

BC Stats

Understanding Voting Method Choices in the 2020 BC General Elections

British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI)

What Can SEC 10-K Textual Disclosures Tell Us About a Firm’s Earnings Quality and Future Stock Returns?

Cenovus

Using Time Series Temperature Data to Determine Well Productivity

Dialpad

Project #1: Detecting Emerging Topics, Trends and Anomalies from Call Center Transcripts

Project #2: Understanding & Predicting Customer Satisfaction Using Vocal Features

Gerontology and Diabetes Research Laboratory (GDRL)

Project #1: Machine Learning Approaches to Diagnosing Lipohypertrophy at the Bedside

Project #2: Machine Learning Approaches to Falls Prediction in Long Term Care

Glentel

People Analytics

Goldspot Discoveries Corp.

Automated Drill Core Logging Through the Lens of Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Government of Canada Web Analytics Team

Determining the Use Cases Across Data Science Sub-Fields for the Government of Canada's Web Analytics Operations

Hootsuite

Customer Segmentation Using Hootsuite Product Usage Data

Newsly Technologies Inc.

Audio Listening Preferences

Orbis Investments

Earning Calls Deception Analysis

PaybyPhone

Anomaly Detection

Properly Inc.

Image Processing: Quantifying the Home Condition from Property Images

Realtor.com

Project #1: Identifying Real Estate Investment Opportunities Using Machine Learning

Project #2: Will They, or Won't They? Return User Prediction

Sensing in Biomechanical Processes Lab (SimPL)

Extracting and Visualizing the Human Brain State Using EEG Data

University of British Columbia

Defend UBC

Vancouver Whitecaps

Project #1: Football Fortune Telling: Predicting MLS Performance

Project #2: Match Fit - Using Optical Tracking Data to Evaluate MLS Players’ Power, Fitness & Fatigue

Okanagan

Fleetmetrica

Developing a Fleet Risk Model Using a Machine Learning Approach

JustPractice

Identifying Patient Care Gaps Through the Analysis of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Data

MNP Digital

E-commerce & it's Challenges

Projectlink

Market Analytics

Siemens Healthineers

Image Classification of Biosensor Prints

Statistics Canada

Project #1: COVID-19 - Canadian Employment Wage Subsidy: An Analysis

Project #2: Incorporating Public Transit into Measures of Accessibility

Project #3: The Effects of Proximity to Services on Canadians’ Housing Conditions

UBC (Urban Data Lab)

UBC Sustainability Performance Dashboard

Computational Linguistics

Dialpad

ASR Data Inspector

Glentel

Voice of the Customer

Government of Canada Web Analytics Team

Capturing What Users Go to Canada.ca to Do

Indeed

Automatic Inference of Reader Attributed from Blog Content

Seasalt.ai

Happiness in One Model: Cross-Lingual NER for Low-Resource Languages

The Sea Around Us

Estimation of Worldwide MPAS Protection through a Novel Questionnaire

Thomson Reuters

Improving Search with Deep Learning for a Marketing Leading Accounting Research Platform

UBC Linguistics

Phase One of a Universal Graded Reader

Past Capstone Projects

aDolus - MDS Vancouver

2020: Unearthing Hidden Vulnerabilities in Mission Critical Software

Analytika - MDS Vancouver

2020: Project #1: Smart Agriculture

2020: Project #2: Wells Timelines

BC Cancer - Kelowna - MDS Okanagan

2020: Project #1: Improving access: a predictive modeling tool for physician resource planning

2020: Project #2: Understanding cancer demographics for cancer patients from Interior of B.C.

BC Stats - MDS Vancouver

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

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

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

2020: Driver Risk Assessment Model Using Telematics Data

Fresh Prep - MDS Vancouver

2019: Predicting Customer Order Probabilities

GetintheLoop - MDS Okanagan

2019: Customer Engagement Factors for Online Marketing

Glentel - MDS Vancouver

2020: Making sense of people data

Goldspot Discoveries - MDS Vancouver

2020: Core Photo Analysis

Hero Ventures - MDS Vancouver

2020: Seahorse Strategies: Seahorse Momentum Indicator (SMI)

2019: Seahorse Strategies: Predicting the Stock Market

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

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

Okanagan Planning and Institutional Research - MDS Okanagan

2019: Using Machine Learning for Sentiment Analysis in Survey Text Responses

Pay by Phone - MDS Vancouver

2020: Crowdsourced parking locations

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

2020: Photo-realistic Neighborhood Image Synthesis

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

Seekers Media - MDS Okanagan

2019: Marketing Campaign Visualization and Audience Impact

Semios - MDS Vancouver

2018: Binary Classification of Leaf Wetness Using Sensor Data

Statistics Canada - MDS Okanagan

2020: Bringing Understanding to the COVID-19 Outbreak in Ontario

2019: Project #1: Developing open data statistics with the Open Database of Buildings

2019: Project #2: Data Visualization Project on a Food/Nutrition Data Model

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

Thomson Reuters - MDS Computational Linguistics

2020: Next Generation Conceptual Tagging

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

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

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

Urban Logiq - MDS Vancouver

2020: Project #1: Contextual analysis of amenity and service gaps through the evaluation of transportation accessibility in at-risk communities

2020: Project #2: Analysis of Connected Vehicle Driving Behaviour as a Predictor of Accidents

2019: Indicators of Crash Severity

Vancouver Whitecaps - MDS Vancouver

2020: Project #1: Modeling the Physical Performances of the Vancouver Whitecaps

2020: Project #2: Understanding Players' Offensive and Defensive Performance in Major League Soccer

Visier - MDS Vancouver

2018: Automated Human Resources Insight Discovery

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