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... [Read More]

Visualizing massive open online courses

by Matthew Emery

After eight months of coursework, the UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) program concludes with a 2-month Capstone project. We partnered with Ido Roll from UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) to analyze data from UBC’s massive open online courses (MOOCs). UBC offers dozens of MOOCs to thousands... [Read More]

Statistics-ML dictionary

by Mike Gelbart

One of the most rewarding aspects of working on the UBC Master of Data Science program has been the close collaboration between my home department, computer science, and the statistics department here at UBC. The collaboration has also come with a challenge, though: the two communities often use different words... [Read More]