Data Analytics Capstone - Projects for the Winter Semester (2024)

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Mohawk College
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Afraz Syed (PhD)
Professor, Business Analytics and Data Management
(1)
4
Timeline
  • January 10, 2024
    Experience start
  • January 26, 2024
    Data Understanding/Data Preparation
  • January 29, 2024
    Modeling
  • February 12, 2024
    Project Scope Meeting
  • April 4, 2024
    Final Report
  • April 5, 2024
    Experience end
Experience
6/7 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any company type
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Information technology Databases Data visualization Data analysis Data modelling
Skills
business analytics business consulting data analytics storytelling and data visualization data analysis
Learner goals and capabilities

Is your organization short on manpower for a given data analysis project? Are you a firm that is looking to explore the value of data analytics? Students in the Mohawk College analytics program are trained in data extraction and transformation as well as data preparation, data modeling and reporting on pre-existing data gathered by the organization. These students will work with your organization to analyze data sets and provide any recommendations they may have as a result of the analysis.

Learners

Learners
Certificate
Any level
45 learners
Project
42 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Individual projects
Expected outcomes and deliverables

The final project deliverable will include:

  1. A 10 to 20-page report outlining the work they performed, any analysis they conducted including visualizations and any recommendations they may have as a result of analysis.
  2. A 20-minute presentation of the project and results to the industry partner and classmates.
Project timeline
  • January 10, 2024
    Experience start
  • January 26, 2024
    Data Understanding/Data Preparation
  • January 29, 2024
    Modeling
  • February 12, 2024
    Project Scope Meeting
  • April 4, 2024
    Final Report
  • April 5, 2024
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

Beginning in January, students in groups of 1-4 will spend 42+ hours spread over 12 weeks assisting your company by providing analytical research and recommendations tailored to one of your company’s data opportunities or challenges.


Students may work with the company in one of three ways:

  1. Assist organizations in data gathering research and/or prepare data for future use by the organization. Students can help design and model databases to gather and store data for future analysis.
  2. Assist organizations in preparing existing data for analysis. Students may perform data quality checks, data cleaning, and data transformation exercises on existing data to ready data for analysis by the organization.
  3. Assist organizations in data analysis. Using organizational data, students may conduct data analysis and design data analytics reports to be delivered to the firm.

Project examples include but are not limited to:

  • Analysis of customer segmentation relative to different products and services, to enhance marketing campaigns and refocus your products/services.
  • Investigate predictive models to understand trends in sales, attrition rates, and profits that impact your business.
  • Propose new ways to visualize data through tables and plots that can provide new insights for managers.


Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Be available for a quick phone call with the instructor to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course.

Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address students' questions.