Data Science Training

Day 2 of EXCELL consortium meeting, Thursday 11th of May 2017, will be dedicated to Data Science Training with lectures and practical works.

The course will develop as follows:

Introduction to Data Science

  1. Importance, applications & usage in Business
    1. Finance & banking, Social sciences & healthcare, Sales & Marketing
      1. Explanation of use cases and real world examples
  2. Strategy & Business Intelligence
  3. Data Science vs. Data Mining vs. Machine learning
    1. Overview of Data Mining & Machine Learning
    2. Data Science & Business Strategy
    3. Evolving industry needs
  4. Data Science vs Artificial Intelligence
    1. Logical Explanation
    2. Peculiarities of human behaviour
      1. Different Decision Making process depending on level of knowledge
      2. Unexpected behaviours & unexplained knowledge
      3. Data informativeness dynamism
    3. A cognitive approach to data Science
  5. Overview of Data Science software skills & platform

During the course the following topics will be discussed:

Material

Method

Getting to know each other and understanding students’ familiarity with Data Science

Chat

What is data & how and where data can be used to help

Groupwork, discussion, little task

Data Science – what is it? – short history

Lecture

Importance & application in Business and Industry

Lecture

Strategy & Business Intelligence

Lecture

Thinking of new applications of Data Science within your area of interest & Expertise based on the information provided

Group exercise

Break

 

Data Science Vs. Data Mining Vs. Machine Learning

 

Lecture

Small Exercise on how business strategy changes data mining and & machine learning techniques

Group Exercise

Short recap on what has been learnt

Lecture

Short break

 

Artificial Intelligence & Data Science

Lecture

Case studies of Data Science within Artificial Intelligence.

Group exercise

Short break

 

Overview of Data Science programming/software skills & Platforms

Lecture

Wrap up & Direction for further studies final questions

Lecture/Interaction

Training leader: Dr Ali Rezaei Yazdi

Dr Ali Rezaei Yazdi - EXCELL Data Science Training

Ali obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD from Aston University. He is a member of the Aston Lab for Intelligent Collectives Engineering (ALICE). Ali's research is on extracting cognitive knowledge from data and producing decision making and classification models, and more broadly in the area of Data Science and its utilisation in Artificial Intelligence.

Date(s): 
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Event tags: 
data science
training