Enabling Innovation with Data Science

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  • 07.06–05.07.2024

    Course date

  • 5 days

    Course duration

  • ETH Zurich

    Course location

  • English

    Course language
  • 17.05.2024

    Registration deadline

  • CHF 4000

    Course fee

Course description

This course focuses on achieving impact and innovation with data science. It features theoretical lectures on selected applications of data science, practical lectures on leveraging data science within a business context, and a selection of exemplary use cases from the private and public sector

Date and venue

Course date

07.06–05.07.2024, 5 days

Course location

Online

Fees

Course fee

CHF 4000
CHF 3600 for ETH Zurich alumnae and alumni
CHF 3600 for SDSC partners

Registration

Registration deadline

17.05.2024

Organiser

Course management

Dr Anna Fournier, Principal Data Scientist, SDSC – ETH Zurich

Lecturers:

  • Professor Olivier Verscheure, Executive Director, Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) - EPFL & ETH Zurich
  • Dr Dan Assouline, Sr Data Scientist, SDSC - EPFL
  • Dr Saurabh Bhargava, Principal Data Scientist, SDSC – ETH Zurich
  • Dr Roberto Castello, Principal Data Scientist, SDSC - EPFL
  • Lucas Chizzali, Sr Data Scientist, SDSC – ETH Zurich
  • Dr Anna Fournier, Principal Data Scientist, SDSC – ETH Zurich
  • Dr Matthias Galipaud, Sr Data Scientist, SDSC – ETH Zurich
  • Dr Olivier Kauffmann, Data Scientist, SDSC - EPFL
  • Clément Lefebvre, Sr Data Scientist, SDSC - EPFL
  • Thibaut Loiseau, Machine Learning Engineer, SDSC - EPFL
  • Dr Alessandro Nesti, Principal Data Scientist, SDSC - EPFL
  • Dr Silvia Quarteroni, Head of the Innovation Unit, SDSC - EPFL & ETH Zurich
  • Dr Valerio Rossetti, Principal Data Scientist, SDSC - EPFL
  • Christian Schneebeli, Sr Data Scientist, SDSC – ETH Zurich
  • Victor Van Wymeersch, Data Scientist, SDSC – ETH Zurich

Contact

Dr Anna Fournier
ETH Zurich

Wasserwerkstrasse 10/12
WWA E 13
8092 Zurich

Responsible body

Swiss Data Science Center – a joint venture of ETH Zürich and EPFL

Good to know

Target group

This course addresses experienced professionals up to executive levels. Participants should have prior experience working with data in an applied context (eg reporting/ visualization/ summary statistics). No programming skills nor technical knowledge on data science specifically are required.

Course language(s)

English

Additional information

Day 1 : Intro to data science and digital transformation

  • History, terminology, basic concepts, project management
  • Hands-on session with no-code platform (KNIME)

Day 2 : Fundamentals of machine learning

  • Supervised learning, with hands-on
  • Best practices for industrialisation of solutions and reusability of digital assets
  • Use cases

Day 3 : Fundamentals of machine learning

  • Unsupervised learning and time series, with hands-on
  • Fostering adoption: model explainability and AB testing
  • Canvassing exercise

Day 4 : Natural Language Processing and generative AI

  • Algorithms and applications, with hands-on
  • Prompt engineering workshop
  • Use cases

Day 5 AM: Computer Vision

  • Algorithms and applications, with hands-on
  • Use cases
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