Last year I had the pleasure of taking part (in a very small way!) in the Big Dive EU, an intensive 5 week training program based in Turin, Italy aimed at boosting a new generation of data scientists and visualisation developers.
After a successful first edition, TOP-IX, together with Axant, ISI Foundation and Todo have announced there will be a second edition of this event and I’m more than happy to share details and help spread the word:
The demand for data scientists is growing exponentially and we are just at the beginning of an exciting Big Data era in the IT world. This is your chance to boost your data science skills diving into the BIG DATA universe. Big Dive EU is like a street-fighting gym where high value datasets are the raw material in the hands of a bunch of ambitious smart geeks tutored and mentored by experts in three key areas: Development, Visualization and Data Science.
Here is an outline of the disciplines that are being covered:
DEVELOPMENT
- Web application with Python
- API and Data fetching
- Data Storage (Relational/ key-value databases)
- Hadoop and MapReduce
- Performance Optimization and Profiling
VISUALIZATION
- Brief history of data visualization
- Showcase of relevant data visualization projects
- The manifesto of data visualization
- Visual paradigms for dataviz
- Step by step creation of the first dataviz project through creative coding
DATA SCIENCE
- Network science: represent and analyze network data
- Statistics
- Machine learning
- Natural language processing and semantics
The second edition will start on June 3rd, 2013 and run through to July 5th with full-time lessons Monday through to Friday of each week. There are only 20 places available for this fantastic training opportunity. Applications close on 19th May so act quickly. Pricing information can be found here but for more details in general visit the website at www.bigdive.eu, email the organisers at info.bigdive@top-ix.org or check out the twitter feed @bigdive_eu.