On April 6, 2019, EasyMarkit hosted their first Hackathon in Vancouver where teams were asked to offer an AI solution to improve patient communication. My team (Bailey Lei, Alex Pak, Betty Zhou) was awarded first place based on the accuracy of our model in predicting communication response from patients.
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Teaching Convolutional Neural Networks
by Mike Gelbart
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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