From June 30th to July 6th 2018 the two in Germany based Big Data Competence Centers ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig and BBDC are organizing the fourth internationalsummer school on Big Data and Machine Learning in its summer school series (2016, 2017). The event aims at graduate students, Ph.D. students, researchers as well as well as practitioners starting or being active in the field of Big Data and Machine Learning. Within the program, we offer inspiring insights into the area by selected research keynotes from international experts combined with industrial talks. Prior to the summer school, there will be a "streamline" hackathon for hands-on development of an application for real-time analytics of streaming data. Furthermore, there will be plenty of opportunities to exchange ideas and to discuss the topics with other participants and speakers. The summer school also hosts several social activities such as a city walk and a dinner in a traditional restaurant.
Important Dates
Hackathon: June 30th- July 1st 2018
Summer School: July 2nd- July 6th 2018
Locations:
The big data Hackathon will be held at the University of Leipzig, ScaDS, Ritterstrasse 9-13, 2. floor 04109 Leipzig
and the Summer School will be held at the University of Leipzig, Hörsaalgebäude, Hörsaal 8, Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig
(Street map view to get to the locations of the event)
Check in to the Hackathon will take place Ritterstrasse 9-13, 2. floor 04109 Leipzig.
Check in to the Summer School will take place next to the Lecture Hall 8.
How to get to Leipzig and the Leipzig University (and ticket options for the public transport): Directions
Summer School 2018 FAQ
Topics and Program Highlights
The Hackathon will focus on the practical application of stream-based event processing. (more Information)
- Overview to building complex real-time data analytics pipelines based on open-source cluster-computing frameworks
- Implementation by using such frameworks
- challenge: pick one or more real-time data sources and build real-time analytics workflows or tools, which improve strategic planning or decision making. Source are either provided by the samples or can self chosen and optional historical data sources can be used.
A summer school jury will select the best hackathon results. The Institute for Applied Informatics at the University of Leipzig e.V. (InfaAI) endows a price of 500 Euro for the winning team.
The topics of the summer school include:
- Deep Learning
- Data Mining in Stream Data
- Machine Learning for the Sciences
- Declarative machine learning with Apache SystemML
- Confidentiality and Integrity of Cloud Databases
- Visual Analytics for Big Data
- -Cypher-based Graph Analytics on Spark
- Web-scale information extraction
- Big Data Integration
- Big Data and HPC
Program
Organizing Team
The summer school as well as the Hackathon are organized by the two competence centers for big data research in Germany, ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig and BBDC, in cooperation with the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) e.V. at the Leipzig University.
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Impressions
Further events at the time
- Klassik airleben 2018 (29.06.2018 - 30.06.2018) Classical open air music in one of Leipzig's beautiful public parks
- Hörspielsommer 2018 (06.07.2018 - 15.07.2018) audiobook open air summer also in another of leipzig's beautiful parks
- Leipziger Weinfest 2018 (27.06.2018 - 01.07.2018) Leipzig's wine festival
- Motets performed by the St. Thomas Boys Choir (Fridays at 6:00pm and Saturdays at 3:00pm) Music in Words - Words in Music