Real-World Data Science Projects

Our Impact

Big Data and Real-World Solutions


At the D2K Lab, students put their computational and data engineering skills into real-world applications using cutting-edge data science tools and research. Each project is customized with our industry partners and community organizations, and designed to tackle data challenges spanning major aspects of the society, industries and community.

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Big Data
Real
World
Solutions

The Rice D2K Lab is a dynamic hub for innovative, interdisciplinary data science education. Through courses, co-curricular programs, sponsored projects and events, we offer hands-on experiential learning opportunities where students engage with complex real-world data, transforming it into actionable knowledge through machine learning, AI and computation.

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Capstone Projects Chart

Capstone Projects by Sponsor and Academic Year

1900+

Students and alumni participants in Datathon

150+

Students participate in annual capstone projects

  • Collaborate with companies, community organizations, and researchers to solve real-world data challenges.
  • Engage in problem solving and open inquiry, solving complex data science problems.
  • Focus on organizational impact.
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Data Science for Health

Data Science for Health

Data science provides excellent tools for health professionals to gain valuable knowledge from patient information and dataset. At the D2K Lab, students have the opportunity to work on projects sponsored by medical centers, researchers and health solution companies to tackle various topics of the industry, such as ECGs, preventive modeling, imaging analytics, and diagnostic accuracy, etc.

Data Science for Health Projects

Community Impact

Community and Social

Students apply data science knowledge to help community organizations, non-profits and government agencies solve real-world challenges.

Community and Social Projects

Energy and Safety

Energy and Safety

From anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, to emerging topics in environmental science, D2K students work with major energy companies to translate their business needs to data science problems and seek data-driven solutions.

Energy and Safety Projects

Finance and Technology

Finance and Technology

As data analytics and data security have become essential in all businesses, D2K students have worked with many finance and tech companies to transform massive amounts of data sets into valuable business insights.

Finance and Technology Projects