Data Science Seminars and Challenge - WMM9AM60

Goal(s)

A series of 6 or 7 seminars given by active researchers in the field of data processing methods and analysis.

These seminars are intended to give students some insights on modern problems and solutions developed in a data science framework, with applications in a variety of fields.

Responsible(s)

Sana LOUHICHI

Content(s)

This course contains two parts.

Part I concerns Data challenge.

This part consists in a real problem that is given to the students for which data are readily available. The goal is to have teams of five to six students compete in solving (at least partially) the problem.

The work is spread over the Autumn semester and consists of: building a prediction model or a methodology to solve the problem based on a set of training data, blind evaluation of the model or methodology on a test bench (unseen data, withheld from the students), using an appropriate performance measure.

At the end, the teams will present their solution path in a formal presentation and a short report.

Part II concerns Data Science seminars.

This is a cycle of seminars or presentations with a common factor that is the project of the data challenge. A first seminar will settle the context and the problem for that year’s data challenge.

The other seminars will propose different industrial or academic approaches and problems that are (loosely) related to the objective of the data challenge. Presentations have a time slot of one hour and students will have to read up front some ressources to orient their questions about the subject after the seminar.

basic concepts on applied mathematics, probability, statistics

Test

Evaluation : Projet (évaluation en continu et sur le rendu) + soutenance

At the end of the seminar series, some oral exam is organized. One of the topic presented during the seminars is randomly assigned to each student a few days in advance. The oral exam consists in a 25 min summarized presentation of the scientific issues that were addressed, and a 15 min session of discussion and questions. A second different topic is chosen by the student, and he.she must write a report on that topic, based on the seminar and associated articles.

The exam is given in english only

Calendar

The course exists in the following branches:

• Curriculum - Master in Applied Mathematics - Semester 9 (this course is given in english only)

Additional Information

Course ID : WMM9AM60
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