Msc: Internship Data Analytics - Finding the external factors, influencing service costs of printers

Are you a WO data science student who is looking for an internship assignment? Are you ready to commit your data analytical skills to improve our business insights? We are looking for you!

Your assignment

Canon Production Printing (CPP) develops and produces a variety of commercial size printers for the business-to-business market. Our inkjet printers are designed for high-volume printing through a combination of high speed and low operational costs, while retaining high quality and flexibility.

Once the printers are at customers, our service organization ensures customers can benefit optimally by making sure the printer runs smoothly. The service efforts and related costs vary widely between customers. We want to better understand what factors influence the service costs at individual customers and how this translates to the entire population.

The goal of this project is to develop data analytical tools to identify influencing factors in a data set with many parameters. The factors should be explainable to the business, and part of the assignment is presentation and visualization of the results in such a way that they can be used for business decisions.

The character of this assignment is explorative. Can you come up with the best approach, enabling us to apply your work to future analyses?

Challenges for you are:

• Get to know the data set and organize it to enable fast and reproducible data analysis
• Use advanced data analytical techniques to find the factors influencing service costs, such as the age of the printer, seasonality and part quality, and transform this into a tool that can be used by our domain experts for future analyses
• Visualize your results in a clear way
• Deal with large amounts of data. Our printers log a lot of detailed information. It is up to you to aggregate or filter at the right level, based on discussion with domain experts
• Explain both the behavior of individual printers and the behavior of the entire population

Your profile

• You are currently studying Data Science, Data Analytics or Business Analytics and you are looking for your MSc internship or graduation assignment at a big international company
• You have a critical attitude and you are curious to understand your own observations
• You have at least basic Python and SQL knowledge
• As of September 1st 2026 you are available for 5 to 8 months for a minimum of 4 days per week

What’s in it for you?

• A challenging assignment with skilled coaching
• Internship/Graduation compensation up to €500 per month
• Travel cost compensation if you don’t have an OV-weekcard
• The possibility to network with professionals inside and outside your field of expertise, thanks to the diversity of disciplines you will work with