Carleton’s Areas of Excellence in Data Sciences including Big Data, Data Analytics, and Social Sentiment Analytics
Among the best comprehensive universities in Canada, Carleton University is actively involved in data sciences, with over 170 researchers from five faculties and 26 university departments, schools and institutes (including cross-appointments) actively engaged in immensely varied research, with applications as far-ranging as criminal profiling, seismic modelling, statistical analysis, business intelligence, and linguistic studies.
Examples of current research include:
- Business analytics in marketing, finance, human resources, and operations
- Sensor data analytics
- Patient monitoring
- DNA and molecular modeling data
- Data from the Confederation Bridge
- Cloud computing
- Information retrieval and web information access
- Natural language processing
- Artificial intelligence
- Database and information integration
Research Groups
Among all the many projects and research interests at Carleton University, there are several emerging areas of concentration in data science. The eight main areas of particular interest to Carleton researchers are:
- Health and Biomedical Informatics
- Social Science and Digital Humanities
- Geomatics, Climate Monitoring and Remote Sensing
- Computer Science and Parallel Computing
- Medical Physics and Particle Physics
- Engineering, Modelling and Simulation
- Real-Time and Distributed Systems RADS
- Marketing and IT for Business