SAS Canada – Development of the online analytics simulation game, Cortex

The intern will assist with the development of the online analytics simulation game, Cortex. The first objective is to add a new scenario to the game. In partnership with SAS associates and HEC Montreal’s students and teachers, a new scenario will be incorporated into Cortex. The two analytics trending areas of climate change and sports analytics are of interest for both the developer team and the future intern. The process would follow a classic end-to-end data-project structure, from understanding the data to cleaning it, plugging it into the game, and then proceeding with robustness tests. The intern will be responsible for translating the new scenario of the game and corresponding datasets into the platform. He will also produce teaching materials used for games both in the academic and commercial classrooms. The second objective of the internship is a cloud migration strategy. Part of this project is meant to initiate the cloning of the Cortex platform to the Cloud using Azure technologies and Open-Source resources. The intern will work with the co-founders of Cortex at the ERPSim lab from HEC Montréal to assist with the migration.

Faculty Supervisor:

Tiffany Bayley

Student:

Partner:

SAS Institute (Canada) Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program: