This post aims to share some of our learnings from our MDS Capstone project in 2021. If you’re a new student or a current student reading this after completing your block 6 coursework, congratulations! We wish you the very best in your capstone journey and hope that some of the...
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Generating Photo-Realistic Neighbourhoods using Artificial Intelligence
by Andres Pitta
Before starting, I wanted to give a brief introduction to the project, as well as give a special thanks to the team I worked with. This project was done for realtor.com as a UBC MDS capstone project. The team – Braden Tam, Florence Wang, Hanying Zhang and me – was...
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NLP in the Real World: A Reflection on a Two-Month Capstone
by Serena Huang
Recently, my team and I wrapped up our two-month long capstone project with Unbounce. The completion of the capstone marks the end of my Master of Data Science — Computational Linguistics program (MDS-CL) at the University of British Columbia, as well as the transition from being a student, the encapsulation...
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MDS 2019/2020 Capstone Seminar Series
by Tomas Beuzen
During the last two months of the UBC Master of Data Science program (typically May & June each year) we have Capstone projects, in which our students work in teams of ~4 students with an external capstone partner and a UBC mentor to address a question facing the capstone partner’s...
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Integrating R & Python into a Data Science program
by Tiffany Timbers
R and Python are the two leading languages used in industry and academia for data analysis. Thus, to best prepare students in the University of British Columbia’s course-based, professional Master of Data Science (MDS) program to be competitive and perform on the job market, we have made an explicit decision...
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