Capstone Project Proposals open in late summer/early fall each year, see the timeline for this year’s submission deadlines.
Partners may choose to submit a capstone project(s) to the MDS Vancouver program (general data science) and/or the MDS Computational Linguistics program (language-related data science). If you’re unsure about which program to submit your project to, read more below.
Proposal forms can be found here:
Should I submit my proposal to MDS Vancouver or MDS Computational Linguistics?
The MDS Vancouver (MDS-V) program covers all aspects of data science, including topics of data wrangling, visualisation, dashboards, statistics and machine learning, amongst others. You can read more about the program here and can see the capstone page on this website to learn more about the type of projects MDS-V addresses in capstone.
The MDS Computational Linguistics (MDS-CL) program covers similar topics to MDS Vancouver but with a focus on analyzing language/text-related data and building models that can extract insights from this data. Particular areas of expertise include deep learning, sentiment analysis, and multi-lingual methods such as machine translation. You can read more about the program here and can see the MDS-CL capstone page to learn more about the type of projects MDS-CL addresses in capstone.
Instructions for filling out the capstone proposal form
The proposal form will ask you to fill out general information about your organization and information specific to the project your are proposing. We are specifically interesting in understanding the problem/question that students will be working on, details about what the data for the project looks like, and what data product the students are expected to deliver at the end of the project.
You can find more details about the required information in this year’s proposal form, linked above. If the proposal form is not open yet, you can view this PDF with the questions that were asked in a previous year.
NOTE If your project requires confidentiality and IP assignment, please read our legal page on how we handle these before submitting your capstone proposal. For non-UBC Capstone partners whose projects require confidentiality and IP assignment, we strongly recommend that partners show the UBC template documents to their legal counsel and get their agreement to use these documents before submitting the capstone proposal. We cannot sign alternate agreements, nor amend our agreements in any way.