PATC: Big Data Analytics

Date: 06/Feb/2018 Time: 09:30 - 09/Feb/2018 Time: 18:00

Place:

The course will take place in
Barcelona Supercomputing Centre,
within the UPC Campus Nord premises.

Vertex Building VS208

Target group: for trainees with some theoretical and practical knowledge;

Cost: There is no registration fee. The attendees would need to cover the expenses for travel, accommodation and meals.

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Day 1 06/02: 
 

 9:30 – 13:00 Introduction (Vassil Alexandrov)

  • Data Science current trends session will focus on results of the latest key studies both in Europe and the USA in the area of Data Science and will outline the major trends, findings and recommendations.

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

  • Data Science definitions and mathematical foundations introduction.

While tackling Big Data problems in many cases elementary or standard statistical approaches fail. New research methods are required to be developed to tackle such problems. Therefore this session will focus key research methods and approaches for Data Science, ranging from theory creating and theory testing approaches to conceptual-analytical approaches and experimental ones, that are able to lead to discovering global properties on data. These will be mainly deterministic and hybrid (stochastic/deterministic) methods and algorithms.


13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

 

14:00 – 16:00 (Vassil Alexandrov)

  • This session will focus on several key methods and algorithms (both serial and parallel) that enable to discover global properties on data while dealing with Big Data:
    • Network Science
    • Multi Constrained and Multi-Objective Optimization
    • Examples of using the above approaches
  • Examples using the above approaches and some hands-on exercise

16:00 – 16:30  Coffee break

16:30 – 18:00  (Josep Casanovas)

  • Social Simulation Applications 

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Day 2 07/02:

 9:30 – 13:00 (Josep Lluis Berral)

  • Data Analytics with Apache Spark.

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

Apache Spark has become a consolidated technology for large-scale processing in a fast and general way, with “programmer-friendly” interfaces and official bindings for many of the most used languages (Java, Scala, Python and R), extensive documentation and development tools. This course introduces Apache Spark, as well as some of its core libraries for data manipulation, machine learning, data streams and graph analytics.

 

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

 

14:00 – 16:00 (Josep Lluis Berral)

  • Data Analytics with Apache Spark. Part 2

 

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

 

16:30 – 18:00  (Dr. Ernest Teniente)

  • Big IoT Project
     

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Day 3 8/02:

9:30 – 13:00 (Albert Abelló and Petar Jovanovic)
  • Big Data Management: Big Data has many definitions and facets, we'll pay attention to the problems we have to face to store it and how we can process it. More specifically, we'll focus on the Apache Hadoop ecosystem and its two basic components, namely HBase and MapReduce engine.


11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

  • Hands-on exercise

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 16:00 (Rizkallah Touma)

  • NoSQL databases: The relational model has dominated data storage systems since the mid 1970s. However, the changing storage needs over the past decade have given rise to new models for storing data, collectively known as NoSQL. In this presentation, we will focus on two of the most common types of NoSQL databases: document-oriented databases and graph databases and explain the use cases suitable for each of them.

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

 16:30 - 18:00 (Dr. Maria Cristina Marinescu)

  • Multidisciplinary research and data analytics: Smart Cities

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Day 4 09/02:

 9:30 – 11:30 (Dr. Darío García)

  • Introduction to Deep Learning: This hands-on session will focus on deep learning applications, providing an introduction to one of the most popular libraries (TensorFlow). Examples on how large amounts of data are processed will be given. Its necessary to have TF installed in your computer.
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break
 

12:00 – 13.00 (Dr. Javier Espinosa)

  • Data visualizations are everywhere and are more important than ever. From creating a visual representation of data points as part of an executive presentation, to showcasing progress, or visualizing concepts for customer segments, data visualizations are a critical and valuable tool in many different situations. When it comes to big data, weak tools with basic features do not cut it so specific techniques should be applied. This course will address different techniques for visualizing big data collections including a vision of the visualization process as a complex and greedy task and then as out of the box solution that can help to analyze and interpret big data collection.

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

 14:00– 18:00 (Dr. Javier Espinosa)

  • Hands-on Exercise

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

  • Hands-on Exercise

END of COURSE