Previous Projects

This course is taught at UBC under the title Quantitative Economic Modelling and Data Science. This course requires students to submit a final project in which they apply Python programming and data science tools to a topic of their own interest. We are immensely proud of the work that our previous students have produced for this class.

This page contains a selected sample of projects produced by our students, which we share with their permission.

This course is also taught at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Check out some of their students’ final projects.

2023

Section 1

• Investigating public health funding discrepancies between counties in Kenya

  • Jesse DeCosta

  • Duncan Harrop

• Examining the US/Canada oil price differential

  • Nolan Petroff

  • Shaan Hooey

• Part I: Betting on exchange rates
  Part II: Theory versus machine learning for exchange rate predictions

  • Annabella Stoll-Dansereau (Parts I & II)

  • Silas Kwok (Part II)

  • 1 Anonymous student (Part II)

• Driving Toward Efficiency: Trends in fuel consumption of Canadian vehicles

  • Alexander Proskiw

  • Kai Groden-Gilchrist

• Access to legal abortion in Mexico City, 2016 to 2018

  • Julia Martinez

• The TikTok effect on an artist’s streaming performance on Spotify

  • Isabella Lucas Bruxellas

  • Janvi Singh

  • Evagelos Ifantidis

  • Ameesh Perchani

Section 2

• Predicting rice crop yield in Vietnam
  PRESS RELEASE: EY 2023 Open Science Data Challenge winners help solve world hunger through AI models

  • Divyadarshan Punjabi

  • Nirvaan Rohira

  • Yasin Zahir

• Spillover effects of mass shootings

  • William Clinton Co

  • Diana Kaskeyeva

  • Janavi Nainani

  • Hanye Zong

• Is ESG dead? Investigating the link between ESG scores and the stock market

  • Dalton Du

  • Harvey Chan

• Predicting price ranges of AirBnB’s in NYC

  • Joyce Lu

  • 1 Anonymous student

2022

• An analysis of implicit carbon emission between provinces in China with Data Science application

  • Tracy Du

  • Elody Alcaraz

• NBA Games and LA Car Accidents: Do Sporting Events Lead to More Car Accidents? (Appendix: Data Cleaning)

  • Teenida Mea Srisan

• Road Surface Temperature Analysis: Influence of weather on road conditions for self driving cars

  • Martina Chiesa

  • Pascal Terpstra

• Personalization of the E-Learning Experience

  • Aziz Alkorey

• Predicting House Price in Melbourne City via Machine Learning Model

  • Chenyue Qian

• General Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Agents: A demonstration of the 1st welfare theorem

  • [Name redacted by request]

  • Paul Znidaric

• Correlation between players’ signing expenditure and the performance of the teams in the Spanish soccer league

  • Sebastian Luna

• Using Machine Learning to predict Market Falls with Newspaper Articles

  • Juan Manuel Ochoa Graciano

• Bank Account Fraud Analysis

  • Steven Mezei

  • Sameer Shankar

• Diffusion of political rhetoric: Radio coverage and deforestation rates in Bolsanaro’s Brazil (Appendix 1: Deforestation map, Appendix 2: Radio coverage map)

  • Nicholas Harterre

  • Valeria Zolla

2021

• Centrists Win: Evidence from US House Elections

  • Harry Izatt

• Factors affecting bike share in San Francisco

  • Napat Karnsakultorn

• Evolution of NBA Player Salary Determinants

  • Silas Lee-McNamee

• Visualization of Circum-Pacific Belt Earthquakes

  • Jessica Shi

2020

• Machine Learning Models for the Prediction of Obesity

  • Jallow Abdullah

• Effect of Temperature on COVID-19 Transmission

  • Kunal Aildasani

  • Jenil Doshi

• The Effect of Fatalities on the Popularity of Partido Demokratiko Pilipino

  • Matthew Araneta

• Gendered Language on University Subreddits

  • Amedeus A. Dsouza

• Classification Analysis of Suicide Rates

  • Anahita Einolghozati

• Predict Loan Funding with Loan Profile

  • Wesley Ferguson

• Predicting Sovereign Debt Crises

  • Raphaël Grach

• Gentrification and AirBnb in New York: Two sides of the same coin

  • Lubaina Jaffri

• Bitcoin Returns

  • Syad Khan

• COVID-19 and Resale Price of Luxury Masks

  • Saeed Khoury

• Do New U.S. Permanent Residents Push Up Local Housing Prices

  • Yucheng Liu

• Loving You is Complicated: Quantifying Musical Sentiment and Success through Data Science

  • Javier Cortes Orihuela

• Effect of Merge and Aquisition on Giant Tech Firms’ Stock Prices

  • Rodrigo Martinez Urrutia

• Effect of Long-Term Water Boil Advisories on Indigenous Nations

  • Noelle Wang

• Analysis on U.S.-China Trade War

  • Zihao Wang

2019

• US Courts and Judges

  • Ian Sapollnik

  • George Radner

• Google Trends to Predict Unemployment Rates

  • Tudor Schlanger

• How Well do FIFA Ratings Predict Match Results?

  • Shahzoor Safdar

• Firm Level Innovation and CEO Compensation

  • Robin Li

• Forecasting Inflation Using VAR: Traditional vs ML Approaches

  • Joseph Teh

• Machine Learning for Technical Analysis

  • Canberk Kandemir

• Predicting Financial Success from Reports and Data Breaches

  • Emmet Hall