Data Science

From the President & CEO: Cybera community update and look ahead

With so much going on within Cybera and our wider community, I wanted to pause to review what weโ€™ve accomplished in the latter quarter of 2023, and what we have planned for the year ahead. This past fall saw many big wins for Cybera and our community: the announcement that the Australian National Research and […]

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Cyberaโ€™s Applied Data Science program wraps up a busy 2023 with the launch of its third cohort

Cyberaโ€™s Applied Data Science Lab team has had a very busy 2023, helping support 10 different organizations with their early adoption of data science and machine learning practices. This is the most companies our data science team has supported in a single year, and is on top of over a dozen workshops and public information

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Data science interns take a โ€œtripโ€ to Vertical City

With exaggerated hand gestures, data science intern Aldebaran Saldaรฑa comedically ushers me in and out of a life-size โ€œelevator simulatorโ€ โ€” a small, curtained-off rectangle with a monitor mounted in the top right corner. “I feel like a border security officer,โ€ he says. โ€œPassports, please!” Rishabh Shukla, another intern, shares the systemโ€™s findings from behind

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Applied Data Science Lab launches summer cohortย 

Cyberaโ€™s Applied Data Science Lab for Economic Development has commenced its 2023 summer internship program. The group of 16 budding data scientists and four Alberta-based organizations, labeled the โ€œNeutronโ€ cohort, will spend the next four months working on an internal data-related project. Operating in teams of four, the interns will develop a proof-of-concept tool that

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First cohort of the Applied Data Science Lab gets underway

Cybera has launched its first cohort of the Applied Data Science Lab, which gives Alberta companies and budding data scientists the chance to trial a real-world data exploration project. This work integrated learning program has paired eight emerging data scientists with two Alberta based businesses to carry out a six-month data science / machine learning

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Alberta Innovates grant kickstarts the Applied Data Science Lab

Alberta Innovates announced today a new series of funding for projects that will support economic growth and innovation in the provinceโ€™s tech sector. Cybera is pleased to be one of the recipients of the funding for its newly established Applied Data Science Lab for Economic Development. The Data Science Lab will build off the success of Cyberaโ€™s Data Science

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Industry Hackathon helps solve โ€œdigital divideโ€ while supporting professional development

On June 4, 2021, participants from across Alberta presented unique solutions and tactics to the issue of rural internet access gaps following the month-long Bridging the Connectivity Challenge Hackathon. This event, which was spearheaded by Cybera and ISAIC, brought together more than 100 registrants to address the following objectives: Use available data to assess the

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Twitter Slackbot: Combining the potential of Twitter and Slack

The article below describes the work of Team DataMasters during a recent month-long Professional Development competition at Cybera.  With the COVID-19 situation rapidly evolving, itโ€™s important to adhere to the public health guidelines and stay up-to-date with the latest information from the government and public health officers. At times, it can be overwhelming to keep

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Registration for the upcoming rural connectivity hackathon is now open!

Cybera, in partnership with ISAIC, is hosting a hackathon with the goal of discovering how rural connectivity impacts the quality of life, economic diversification, and education for rural and remote communities in Alberta. Through this four-week online sprint, participants will be able to work in groups, or individually, to solve a real world data challenge.

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Cybera data science consultation opens up opportunities for carbon capture and storage

Earlier this year, Cyberaโ€™s data science team ran a month-long partnership with carbon, capture, storage and utilization company, CMC Research Institutes. Our objective was to help investigate their carbon injection data, which they had been collecting for about a year. The overall goal was to improve the efficiency of their facility, and mitigate any well

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โ€œRage Against the Machine [Learning]โ€ Hockey vs. Data Science

A strong understanding of math is one skill commonly needed to be a successful data scientist. Some of the most successful data scientists have a vast array of mathematical skills they can use โ€” along with programming expertise โ€” to run a data science project.  Often when Cyberans discuss machine learning and data science with

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Data science industry fellowship helps Albertans gain real-world experience

Cybera, in partnership with Alberta Innovates, has resumed its Data Science Industry Fellowships that was successfully piloted in 2019. The program, which commenced today, helps emerging data scientists (fellows) gain employment opportunities by providing them with real-world data science experience. In parallel, the fellowships support Alberta-based organizations in adopting data science projects that will help

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Alberta Innovates and Cybera team up to offer a Data Science Fellowship program

This summer, Alberta Innovates and Cybera will be offering a Data Science Fellowshipย program to interested Albertans. This is an opportunity for budding data scientists to gain real-world experience with local companies. The program will run in stages throughout 2020, with the first intake group starting in August 2020. How will it work? A team of

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Improving access to clean water around the world through machine learning

In 2018, Cyberaโ€™s Data Science for Albertans team partnered with local startup Synauta on a two-week pilot. At the time, founder Dr. Mike Dixon shared an office space with Cybera, and we learned about his new company over conversations in the shared kitchen. We jointly realized there was an opportunity to trial the use of

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Cybera and Alberta Innovates team up on COVID-19 hackathon

COVID-19 is a global pandemic, and โ€œflattening the curveโ€ is a critical approach for slowing the spread of the disease. Alberta Innovates, together with Cybera, are holding a virtual open data science hackathon from April 10 to May 8. The goal is to: Build data driven insights into “flattening the curve” of COVID-19 infections Map

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