collaborative Projects


Explore hands-on, student-led data science projects at UC Merced’s Data Science Society.

Our projects give members the chance to work with real-world data, build practical skills, collaborate with peers, and create resume-ready work in a fun and supportive environment.

Featured Projects

Intro to Regression Project - House Price Prediction
Intro to Regression Project - House Price Prediction (Beginner)

Predict the sales price for each house based on certain factors like location, size, number of rooms, and overall condition.

DSS Website
DSS Website (Beginner)

Build and design the official DSS UCM website, including pages for About Us, Projects, Workshops, and external resources.

Document Summarization with LLMs
Document Summarization with LLMs (Beginner)

Use large language models to automatically generate abstracts for research papers from SocArXiv.

Computer Vision Project - Spot it Game
Computer Vision Project - Spot it! Game (Intermediate)

Use Roboflow and YOLO models to train a custom dataset that allows a computer to recognize and play the Spot It! game.

Image Classification Project - Conser-vision
Image Classification Project - Conser-vision (Advanced)

Create and train a custom model to identify species in camera trap images collected by research partners.