A group of UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) Computational Linguistics students (Su Yuan, Lusha Wang, and Lisa Zhang) were inspired by Simon Fraser University’s Gender Gap Tracker and decided for their Advanced Corpus Linguistics course project that they wanted to analyze a large news corpus to uncover the gender... [Read More]

Bird-aircraft strikes pose a significant safety hazard to aircraft, pilots and passengers. In the 2020 alone, the projected cost of wildlife strikes, such as birds, totaled $124 million USD. [Read More]

For Faber Connect, a Vancouver-based organization that helps connect construction companies to construction workers for short or long-term work, a significant operational challenge is the unpredictability of worker attendance and worker quality. [Read More]

Ocarina Studios is currently developing an adventure game as a tool for education. Ocarina’s Dream Database is a product that conceptually provides an infinite number of QA pairs from various topics to users, for both entertainment and educational purposes. [Read More]

The BC Data Catalogue contains over 3,000 government datasets with lots of useful information, available for anyone to use. Despite its wealth of information, users often faced difficulties in locating the datasets they needed, resulting in lower engagement with the platform. Recognizing this challenge, BC Data Service identified two key... [Read More]