Research & Collaboration
Through interdisciplinary research and collaborations across disciplines, and also with industry and government, Data Science Nexus will not only educate our future generation, but will also advance disciplines through new knowledge and discovery.
Programs
Nexus aims to provide new data science programs at the undergraduate and graduate level along with opportunities for experiential learning. Nexus will also offer advanced training of post-doctoral fellows and visiting scientists to enrich the learning environment for all.
Partnerships
We live in a digital world where vast amounts of data are being generated and collected at an unprecedented pace in all fields and sectors. Data science helps in extracting insightful information from these data to enable evidence based decisions in daily decision making, long term planning, or scientific discovery.
Featured Events
2020/2021 Nexus Online Data Enlightening Series, (NODES) Seminar Series
News
UM Phd student Anifat Olawoyin is at the forefront of big data Arctic research
Anifat Olawoyin NOVEMBER 2, 2020 — When Anifat Olawoyin was invited to help create the first centralized database for the Canadian Arctic, the Nigerian-born UM PhD student immediately agreed and imagined an empty cold-white horizon and polar bears. “Do I get to go up North?” was her first question, she says. Olawoyin was chosen to participate...
Arctic Research Foundation partners with UM and RRC to revolutionize public access to big Arctic data
A new partnership between the University of Manitoba (UM), Red River College (RRC), and the Arctic Research Foundation (ARF) is setting out to unlock the big data secrets previously hidden in Canada’s Arctic. Ralph Dueck and Reynard Dela Torre from RRC’s applied computer education department and Carson Leung in computer science in the UM Faculty...
CANSSI Prairies – the University of Manitoba and the Canadian Statistical Sciences institute announce a new collaboration
The University of Manitoba Faculty of Science and the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) have agreed to collaborate to promote statistical sciences research and training, both in Canada and internationally; to establish a Regional Centre for the Prairie Region: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, NWT and Nunavut (“CANSSI Prairies”). CANSSI Prairies; will support data-intensive research, provide opportunities for...