Overview
Announcing the 2021 MIT 808 - Big Data Science Capstone Exhibition. We thank
all of the students, who pushed themselves even during the pandemic. Their
outputs speak for themselves. We thank the project partners who also went above
and beyond in this quest of a better understanding of how we can leverage Data
Science across different departments, schools and faculties inside the
University. We thank them for their invaluable guidance in providing guidance
to the students with their projects.
We also thank all faculty who teach and mentor different courses in the MIT
program as the MIT808 course puts together the knowledge and skills learnt in
the full degree.
MIT808: Data Science Capstone Exhibition 2021
In this module, students will carry out a Data Science Capstone project that
brings together the theoretical modules students would have done in the first
year of your MIT C Big Data Science program.
Exhibition
MIT808: Data Science Capstone Exhibition 2021 is a virtual exhibition of
the MIT808 class which is part of the Masters in IT (MIT) Big Data Science
program at the University of Pretoria.
You can view the projects by heading to the Projects tab.
The partners for 2021
COVID19ZA Mobility
- Prof Elaine Nsoesie (Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Public
Health)
- Dr Bolelang Sibolla (Senior Researcher, Spatial Information Systems, Next
Generation Enterprises and Institutions, CSIR)
COVID19ZA Social Media
- Herkulaas MvE Combrink (Interim Director, University of the Free State
Digital Futures, Initiative & PhD Student, Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Pretoria)
Faculty of Law
- Prof. Christof Heyns (Professor of law at the Institute for International and
Comparative Law in Africa, University of Pretoria) Note: Prof Heyns sadly
passed away on 28 March 2021 (Official Announcement)
- Prof Gustav Muller (Associate Professor in the Department of Private Law,
University of Pretoria)
FABI
- Dr Ilaria Germishuizen (Research Group Leader, Institute for Commercial
Forestry Research, University of KwaZulu-Natal)
- Prof Bernard Slippers (Director: FABI, University of Pretoria)
- Prof Brett Hurley (Professor, FABI, Department of Zoology and Entomology,
FABI, University of Pretoria)
- Dr Quentin Santana (Postdoctoral Fellow, FABI, Department of Biochemistry,
Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria)
- Arné Schreuder (Client Engagement Lead, Advance.io.)
York Chair in Multidisciplinary Wood Engineering
- Dr Schalk Venter (Graduate School of Technology Management, Department of
Engineering and Technology Management, University of Pretoria)
Exhibition website: https://up-mitc-ds.github.io/808exhibition2021/
Course Coordinators
Dr. Vukosi Marivate and Abiodun Modupe
