The first Midwest Big Data Summer School for Early Career Researchers will be held from June 20-24, 2016 in Ames, Iowa. Spearheaded, by ISU Computer Science faculty, Dr. Hridesh Rajan, Pavankumar Aduri, and Adisak Sukul, this summer school is designed as a one week, intensive curriculum aimed at early career researchers to get them started in data-driven research. The school will include full day lectures on topics ranging from: data acquisition, data preprocessing, exploratory data analysis, descriptive data analysis, data analysis tools and techniques, visualization and communication, ethical issues in data science, reproducibility and repeatability, and understanding of domain/context.
For more information please visit: https://tads.research.iastate.edu/midwest-big-data-summer-school, or contact Dr. Hridesh Rajan, at hridesh@iastate.edu