TITLE:    BIG DATA ANALYTICS
SPEAKER:  Alex Arenas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

WHEN:     30/4/2013, 15:00
WHERE:    Facultat de Física UB, Aula A25M (Aulari Facultat)

ABSTRACT: With the advent of the supercomputational era, new challenges
emerge concerning the handling and interpretation of huge datasets. In this
introductory course, we will review the main techniques to confront such
problems and we will provide the main sources of information to start the
work of a data scientists. The course will be structured in five parts,
corresponding to the main issues in the process of data analysis.

1. Introduction to Big Data: What is? How to deal with?
2. Data reduction techniques: Extracting the essence
3. Data exploration: Statistics and clustering
4. Data exploitation: From data to models
5. Visualization techniques

Schedule: April 30. May 2, 3, 7, 9
From 15:00 to 18:00

Interested in attending: send an email to conrad (arrova) ffn.ub.es