[SIMPDA2015] BLACK FRIDAY: Early Registration extended until 28/11/2015

With the increasing automation of business processes, growing amounts of process data become available. This opens new research opportunities for business process data analysis, mining and modeling. The aim of the IFIP 2.6 International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis is to offer a forum where researchers from different communities and the industry can

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Machine Learning basics for a newbie

Introduction There has been a renewed interest in machine learning in last few years. This revival seems to be driven by strong fundamentals – loads of data being emitted by sensors across the globe, with cheap storage and lowest ever computational costs! However, not every one around understands what machine learning is. Here are a

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Top-5 trends in Big Data Analysis

In the near future, the following major trends are expected in Big Data analysis: Big Data technology will be based on a mixture of cloud and on-premises computing. Many corporations start migrating from in-house database infrastructures to cloud-based data warehouses. Distributed frameworks for data analytics like MapReduce are turning into distributed managers of resources and

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What is wrong with Big Data?

Big data is now a buzzword. Many developers work hard to improve the processing of large amounts of data and many data scientists work on data analysis problems. Nevertheless not all is well in this field. Big data cause big problems: Insufficient data integration. Data are stored in large warehouses and different groups of specialists

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IQLA-GIAT Summer School in Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data

Presentation The quantitative analysis of textual data is an object of research in many sectors of linguistics, computer sciences, mathematics and statistics and it is used as a research tool within a number of disciplines such as psychology, sociology, sociolinguistics, education, history, political studies, communication and media studies. The recent evolution of information technologies (IT)

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For Big-Data Scientists, ‘Janitor Work’ Is Key Hurdle to Insights

Technology revolutions come in measured, sometimes foot-dragging steps. The lab science and marketing enthusiasm tend to underestimate the bottlenecks to progress that must be overcome with hard work and practical engineering. The field known as “big data” offers a contemporary case study. The catchphrase stands for the modern abundance of digital data from many sources

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MSc Cognitive Systems, University of Potsdam

The University of Potsdam is offering an MSc in Cognitive Systems: Language, Learning, and Reasoning http://www.cogsys.uni-potsdam.de The MSc Cognitive Systems is a two-year Master’s program that covers computational linguistics, machine learning, and knowledge representation and reasoning. The focus of this MSc is on developing intelligent computer systems, and in cognitive modeling. This brings several fields

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PhD Summer Course in Translation Process Research 2015

The Center for Research and Innovation in Translation and Translation Technology (CRITT) offers this year its 5th PhD summer course in Translation Process Research (TPR) from August 17 to 21: https://sites.google.com/site/centretranslationinnovation/tpr2015 The course focuses on theoretical aspects of translation process research, on experimental research design and methodology, on data visualization and human translation modelling, and

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