Subject: Statistics and Data Science

[Project taken] A comparison of analytical methods for assessing the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem outputs.

Caroline Brophy (email | all projects)

ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student taking the online MSc in Statistics and Data Science or the MSc in Statistics and Sustainability. Biodiversity and ecosystem function studies investigate the relationship between species diversity and the outputs of an ecosystem. This project will compare two different analytical methods for analysing this relationship, one an ANOVA … Read more

[TAKEN]AI-Powered Credit Scoring for the Unbanked

Paula Roberts (email | all projects)

Develop an alternative credit scoring system that evaluates creditworthiness for individuals without traditional credit history using alternative data signals such as utility bill payment regularity, mobile phone top-up patterns, social network trust analysis.

Project Supervision

Paula Roberts (email | all projects)

I am happy to supervise projects in the following areas: Practical Applications of Management Science, Urban Privacy, Supply Chain Optimisation, Gendered Technology    

[No longer available for 2026/27] Investigating the Impact of Data Quality

Emma Howard (email | all projects)

**This project is for students in the Online Statistics & Data Science programme (M.Sc) only. No other student will be accepted for this project.*   Data quality is defined as ‘the capability of data to satisfy stated and implied needs when used under specific conditions’ (International Organisation for Standardisation). Data quality issues can include missing data, misspellings and typos, … Read more

TAKEN: Modelling Commuting Departure Times of the Irish Public Using Census Small Area Population Statistics (SAPS) Data

Arthur White (email | all projects)

*This project has been taken and is no longer available* This project will be supported by a colleague in the National Transport Authority (NTA) and is suitable for students in the Statistics and Sustainability, Statistics and Data Science, and Data Science MSc programmes. Contact me for further details. Following each census, the CSO releases small … Read more

TAKEN: Analysis of Emotional Responses Towards Evidence-Based Practices for People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Perspectives of Health and Education Professionals

Arthur White (email | all projects)

*Please note this project has been taken and is no longer available* This project will be in collaboration with Prof. Olive Healy in the School of Psychology and is suitable for students in the Statistics and Data Science, Statistics and Sustainability, and Data Science MSc programmes. The goal of this project is to examine how … Read more

Kernel density estimation and regression

Athanasios Georgiadis (email | all projects)

In this project we are exploring non-parametric methods for the estimation of probability density functions and for regression. The interested Student must be comfortable with Statistics and Mathematics. The Student must do a search about kernel density estimation and Nadaraya–Watson kernel regression. You may also have a look in Prof. Tsybakov’s book “Introduction to nonparametric … Read more

Estimating the number of species

Simon Wilson (email | all projects)

ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student on the M.Sc. in Statistics and Data Science. In this project, we’ll look at the various ways in which ecologists have attempted to answer the question ‘How many species are there?’. Some of these methods are statistical, and we’ll focus on those, but we’ll also take a look … Read more

Exploring survival analysis 1

Simon Wilson (email | all projects)

ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student taking the online MSc in Statistics and Data Science. Survival analysis refers to models and methods for survival data, that is, data on the failure of a system.  Usually this takes the form of times when failure occurs, with the failure referring to events like the system no … Read more