Available Master's Thesis Topics¶
Open topics for a master's thesis supervised by Alex Jung, Associate Professor for Machine Learning at Aalto University.
To discuss a topic or propose your own, get in touch — see the contact links in the thesis guide.
Political data science¶
Political Influence on Childcare Provision in Rural Austria¶
Difficulty: Intermediate · Data source: data.gv.at
Analyse whether and how local political leadership correlates with the availability of publicly funded childcare in rural Austrian municipalities, using open government data. Methods: data aggregation, correlation and regression analysis, before/after-election comparisons, and optionally causal inference. Tools: Python, pandas, geopandas. Suits students interested in political data science and regional development with a solid Python and statistics background.