SOSC 2018 Second International PhD School Open Science Cloud

Session

Big Data and Machine Learning

18 Sept 2018, 09:00

Physics Building (Department of Physics and Geology)

7. Introduction to Big Data

Daniele Cesini (CNAF)

18/09/2018, 09:00

In this presentation we will introduce the concept and distinctive characteristics of Big Data. Examples taken from both scientific and commercial realms will be provided and will illustrate how BIgData analytics is a key enabler for social business, but also science can benefit from using the same techniques. A quick overview of BigData computing infrastructures, in particular their...

8. Introduction to Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Prof. Elisa Ricci (Università di Trento)

18/09/2018, 10:00

From self-driving cars to voice-activated intelligent assistants and robots reading and mimicking human emotions, machine learning and deep learning are not only revolutionizing several industry sectors but they are slowly and steadily becoming part of our daily lives. This talk will provide an overview of deep learning, namely of modern, multi-layered neural networks trained on big data. In...

9. Data Science: state of the art

Dr Valentin Kuznetsov (Cornell University (US))

18/09/2018, 11:30

The Data Science is an rapidly growing field of Information Technology. In this talk we'll cover its origin, the connection to other IT fields and cover details of Data Science fields from data acquisition, processing to building Machine Learning models. We'll cover the tools, technologies and techniques a Data Scientist use in their daily activities. We'll also discuss algorithms and...