When I first learned about convolutional neural networks (also known as CNNs, or convnets), I was shown a picture much like the one below, which is from the AlexNet paper:
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Designing a Master of Data Science program: goals, design decisions, and lessons learned
by Mike Gelbart
Since launching the UBC MDS program in 2016, we’ve received a lot of questions on why we designed MDS the way we did. The post will address the following design decisions:
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Welcome to our 2018-19 cohort
by Milad Maymay
Last week we welcomed our third MDS Vancouver cohort. It only seems a short while ago when we launched the program with a cohort of “only” 22 students. Now we have 70 new students in the program with another 28 at our UBC Okanagan campus.
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Bringing data science to new industries
by Ted Haley
Before starting the Master of Data Science (MDS) program at UBC, I had been working as a civil engineer for a consulting firm in Vancouver. I soon realized that despite producing vast amounts of data, the civil engineering and construction industries have felt little influence from advancements in data science...
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Learning from real data
by Alexander Kleefeldt
For the past three months, I was on a team of UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) students working on our MDS capstone project. Our team developed a data science product to help the course creators on the Thinkific e-learning platform to improve their online courses. Unsurprisingly, working on the...
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