Data Science in Action

True North Sports and Entertainment worked with a group of UBC Master of Data Science Okanagan students to create a ticket pricing model from scratch using Jets ticket sales data from the past decade.

BC Stats collaborated with a team of UBC Master of Data Science – Computational Linguistics students to enhance user experience and adoption of BC Data Catalogue by implementing advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. The primary focus was to help users find the datasets they needed and understand what datasets were available.

The University of Toronto’s Future of Law Lab worked with two groups of Master of Data Science Computational Linguistics students to help answer the following question: Why do judges allow or deny eviction orders in Ontario's Residential Tenancy Board?

To reduce the amount of manual review, ICBC tasked a group of UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) Vancouver students to develop a pipeline capable of accurately reading odometers from dashboard photographs to assist with its low-kilometre discount program.

The Neotoma Paleoecology Database is a National Science Foundation funded, open source, community-led database that contains records of over 10 million ice age fossils. However, data entry of new records is a time-consuming process, and is often a barrier for researchers submitting their data. Neotoma worked with a group of UBC Master of Data Science Vancouver students to develop a full-text journal search using NLP tools to both identify articles of interest to Neotoma’s team of data stewards, and to extract relevant data from the journal articles to reduce the barrier for data upload.

With the rise of ChatGPT, for their Advanced Corpus Linguistics course, a group of MDS Computational Linguistics students wanted to develop a model that can distinguish between human text and A.I. generated text.

For their Advanced Corpus Linguistics project, a group of MDS Computational Linguistics students wanted to apply the Bechdel Test to the works of Jane Austen.

To help improve the identification of sensor failures within its epoc© Blood Analysis System, Siemens Healthineers, a leading medical technology company operating in over 70 countries with over 120 years of experience, and solutions that influence three-quarters of clinical decisions globally, enlisted the help of students from the UBC’s Master of Data Science Okanagan program to analyze biosensor timeseries waveform data.

Looking for a way to improve the conjugation tool for nouns and verbs within various Indigenous languages, such as Ojibwe, CultureFoundry turned to a group of UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) Computational Linguistics students, who created an Ojibwe conjugator and API (Application Programming Interface) to tackle this task. This tool will allow language learners to smoothly and efficiently navigate the many possible forms each word can take, giving them greater authority and confidence in building their language skills.

The Canadian Campus of Wellbeing Survey (CCWS) wanted to explore the effects of the pandemic on Canadian post-secondary students, in particular on vulnerable learning groups (e.g., learners with disabilities, and racialized learners). The CCWS teamed up with a group of UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) Vancouver students to explore the impact of the pandemic on students’ mental well-being.