Big Data and Analytics Summer School 2016 run by the Institute for Analytics and Data Science

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Date: 5 – 16 September 2016
Time: 9am to 5pm
Venue: University of Essex

The IADS summer school is for graduates, postgraduates, researchers and professionals in the emerging fields of big data, data science and analytics who would like to find out more or be updated on the current trends and developments in this exciting and fast-developing field.

Hear about a wide range of data topics including:

Clustering and classification with applications in R with Berthold Lausen
Introduction to meta-analysis with Elena Kulinskaya
Building agent based models for theory and empirical research with Abhijit Sengupta
Machine learning with Mahout with Richard Skeggs
Big data and finance with Neil Kellard

Whether you are interested in the curation and management of big data, advanced techniques and methods including artificial intelligence and statistical methods, or applications of big data in fields ranging from business and finance to bioinformatics, you will find a set of relevant courses for you.

Book to attend the summer school