The University of Malta is once again organizing the Data Science Summer School, which will be held from 17 to 28 July 2023 at the Msida campus. The school is targeted at undergrad and postgrad students as well as past graduates, practitioners, and professionals in STEM related areas and other domains who are interested in learning more about this exciting new field and possibly utilizing data science techniques in their work.
Sessions will take place in the afternoons from 13:00 to 17:30 and consist of a two-hour lecture will be followed by a two-hour practical tutorial. There will be a 30-minute refreshment & networking break in between.
Upon successful completion of the school attendees should be able to:
- Outline the challenge of working with big data using statistical methods
- Integrate the insights from data analytics into knowledge generation and decision-making
- Analyse how to acquire data, both structured and unstructured, process it, store it, and convert it into a format suitable for analysis
- Apply the basics of statistical inference including probability and probability distributions
- Explain classification methods and related methods for assessing model fit and cross-validating predictive models
- Identify, and illustrate, the main concepts of machine learning algorithms and their application
- Outline the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning approaches
- Summarize the quantitative methods of text analysis, including mining social media and other online resources
- Compare, and contrast, the various data interpretation and visualization tools
- Use Python as the main programming language to perform data science, and
- Summarize the various privacy and ethics issues in Data Science.
More information about the event is available online.
