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Data analysis on Mitacs Globalink 2015 projects: Part 2 – Word Cloud

Introduction

Mitacs Globalink Research Internships is a project from Mitacs which allows undergraduate students from Brazil, France, China, India, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Turkey or Vietnam to perform a 3 months internship in some university lab research in Canada.

This series of post is a personal attempt to perform some basic data analysis over projects information, such as projects title and description. Check Part 1 to see my saga on collecting the data.

Motivation

First question I wanted to answer was: “What are most of the projects about?”. I decided that generating an word cloud over the projects title would be an easy and quick way to get an overview on the keywords and topics used to describe the projects.

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Data analysis on Mitacs Globalink 2015 projects: Part 1 – The Data

Introduction

Mitacs Globalink Research Internships is a project from Mitacs which allows undergraduate students from Brazil, France, China, India, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Turkey or Vietnam to perform a 3 months internship in some university lab research in Canada.

I am interested in taking part of the program, and one of the application process steps is to choose between 3 and 7 projects from their 1.782 projects list (as I write this article). Using their website, you can filter those projects by university, province, language and by keywords.

Motivation

I started performing queries with keywords such as “web” and other areas I am familiar with, but soon I realized that there were many other cool projects I could also apply to, so I ended up manually looking into all 1.700+ projects title and writing in a text file the ones I should spend more time reading the prerequisites and description.

Globalink projects list

Mitacs Globalink 2015 projects list.

When I was done, I got really curious about the data. “Which province is offering more projects?”, “What is the average amount of projects being offered per professor?“, “What would a word cloud with projects titles look like?

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