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MSc by Coursework and Research Report in the field of e-Science
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This Masters programme aims to train postgraduate students in computational, mathematical and statistical methods to solve data-driven problems. The programme will create opportunities for students in the Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, Electrical Engineering or related fields to gain an interdisciplinary perspective on the emerging fields of Data Science.
MA by Coursework and Research Report in the field of e-Science
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This Masters programme aims to train postgraduate students in the use of statistical methods to conduct data-driven research in the social sciences and humanities. The programme will create opportunities for students in the social sciences and humanities to develop an interdisciplinary perspective on the emerging fields of Data Science.
Latest Research
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Shutting it down: The Relationship between Regime Types and Internet Shutdowns during Elections
Researcher: Nerissa Muthayan, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Supervisor: Prof. Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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Credit Card Default Payment Prediction using Random Forest
Researcher: Thanganedzo Beverly Mashamba, University Venda
Supervisor: Dr W Chagwiza, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg -
Wind Speed Forecasting Using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Networks
Researcher: Sindisiwe Zulu, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Supervisor: Mr Rendani Mbuvha, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg -
A comparative study of Investor sentiment index and machine learning techniques in forecasting asset prices
Researcher: Sizo Mosibi, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Supervisor: Prof. Yudhvir Seetharam, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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Medicare fraud detection using extreme g radient boosted machines (XGBoost)
Researcher: Sheena Phillip, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Supervisor: Dr Wilbert Chagwiza, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg -
An Investigation into the Design of Bee-inspired Swarm Intelligence Ontology
Researcher: Mukhethwa Mulangaphuma, Sol Plaatje University
Supervisor: Dr Colin Chibaya, Sol Plaatje University
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Assessing Financing for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation for Developing Countries
Researcher: Puseletso Maile, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Supervisor: Prof. Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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Risk reduction in mining projects using Kriging and Gaussian Simulation
Researcher: Shalati Baloyi, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Supervisor: Prof. Glen Nwaila, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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Investigating explainablity methods in recurrent neural network architectures for financial time-series data
Researcher: Warren Freeborough, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Supervisors: Prof. Terence van Zyl, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg -
Population Density and National-Level Governance in Africa
Researcher: Pranish Desai, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Supervisor: Professor Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg -
Discrimination of Signal-Background Events with Supervised and Weakly Supervised Learning in the Search for New Bosons Decaying to Z + y Final State
Researcher: Nkateko Baloyi, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Supervisors: Prof. Bruce Mellado and Dr Xifeng Ruan, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg -
A Probabilistic Machine Learning Model Using Student Trajectory to Predict Academic Success
Researcher: Seipati Nyamane, Sol Plaatje University
Supervisors: Dr Ashwini Jadhav and Dr Ritesh Ajoodha, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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Event classification for gamma-hadron separation for H.E.S.S
Researcher: WandileLesejane, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Supervisor: Prof Nukri Komin, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg -
Automatic Karyotyping using Image Semantic Segmentation to Separate Overlapping Chromosomes
Researcher: Boineelo Sekori, Sol Plaatje University
Supervisors: Dr Albert Whata, Sol Plaatje University
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Effect of sampling on accuracy assessment in remote sensing
Researcher: Tshepiso Rangongo, University of Pretoria
Supervisors: Renate Thiede and Dr Inger Fabris-Rotelli, University of Pretoria