The SOM illustrates how applied health science programs at the University of Waterloo correlates to industries defined by the Canadian Government Board of Labour. Data is based on University of Waterloo co-op data across 5 years.
To find the relation between programs and industries and help focus job development for programs to their related industries.
An better analysis is done by grouping the graphs based on the location of their cluster. For example, two graphs that have cluster in the top quadrant of the graph are grouped together. After grouping them based off quadrants, another SOM algorithm is conducted to increase the quality of prediction of the algorithm.
The lines represent the strength of the correlation between each industry and program. The correlations are based off proximity and overlapping of clusters.
Further analysis can be conducted by using K-means regression and K-nearest-neighbours to confirm correlation.
6216 Home Health Care Services
6232 Residential Developmental Handicap, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities
6213 Offices of Other Health Practitioners
5417 Scientific Research and Development Services
6221 General Medical and Surgical Hospitals
5419 Other Professional, Scientific and Technical Services
6222 Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals
6214 Out Patient Care Centres
6231 Nursing Care Facilities
6215 Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories
4461 Health and Personal Care Stores
3345 Navigational, Measuring, Medical and Control Instruments Manufacturing
6239 Other Residential Care Facilities
6223 Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals
6233 Community Care Facilities for the Elderly
6219 Other Ambulatory Health Care Services
6243 Vocational Rehabilitation Services
HLTHHC - Health Studies
KINHC - Kinesiology
RECHC - Recreation and Leisure
RECTHERHC - Recreation and Leisure -- Therapeutic Recreation option
RECSPBUSHC - Recreation and Leisure -- Recreation and Sport Business option
PUBHLTHHC - Public Health
HLTHPROMHC - Health Studies -- Health Promotion option
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Jaskaran Ghotra and Stephen Zhao