2024 Data Analysis Projects (Varies Per School and Professor) for the Mobile Food Industry

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Food Trucks Association of Canada
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Jana Ray
COO | Executive Director | VP Strategy
(21)
4
Project
Academic experience
100 hours per learner
Learner
Anywhere
Intermediate level

Project scope

Categories
Data visualization Data analysis Data modelling Market research Data science
Skills
menu costing craft service consumer behaviour data analysis purchasing non-disclosure agreement (intellectual property law)
Details

We’d like students to help analyze a number of openly available datasets to draw helpful insights for various business operators from the mobile food industry. This will have impact for:


  • Food Trucks
  • Food Carts and Stands
  • Caterers and Craft Service Providers
  • Canteens
  • Seasonal operators like concessions
  • Some small independent cafes and restaurants


From the analyses provided by the students, we hope to gain insights that will enhance our strategy to support the industry, and to also provide meaningful tools and data that can be directly used by individual businesses.


These insights will be directly related to business outcomes and to solve real world challenges.

Deliverables

Analyzed datasets with recommendations from this analysis in the form of a report. Should help with areas like:


  • Reducing costs and/or Improving cost menu pricing and risk selection
  • Looking at different aspects of the business operation and the related datasets to Identify trends and potential predictive mitigation strategies
  • Draw insights regarding consumer behaviour and purchasing power


NOTE:


Datasets are sourced from generally open sources. Private or personal data is not used NDAs are not generally required for these projects. We will identify in advance if a project requires and NDA due the data being used.

Mentorship

Students will work with an assigned project contact who is available for any clarification on questions, as well as occasional project progress meetings

Supported causes
Industry, innovation and infrastructure

About the company

Company
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
2 - 10 employees
Food & beverage, Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society

The Food Trucks Association of Canada (FTAC) is a national, nonprofit organization which was first registered in Canada in the late summer of 2020, in the earlier period of onset of the pandemic.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/45-28-0001/2021001/article/00010-eng.htm

An agile approach has been taken and we are now looking to redefine how we can best start and grow to support the industry. It is critically important to us to provide real and lasting value to our members.

Projects that are taken on by students and courses in the Riipen platform will be instrumental in our ability to build capacity to deliver that value.
To date, the work of the Food Trucks Association of Canada has been led by a volunteer Executive Director who is a passionate advocate in this space, and has leveraged a 75% student body of employees made available through various employment subsidies. It is a key part of our mandate to support student learning.

The NAICS code for the Food Trucks is 7223 and other code subsets.