Lviv Data Science Summer School is an educational initiative from the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the Ukrainian Catholic University. The Summer School participants – undergraduates, PhD students, young professionals – studied state-of-the-art methods and tools of data science.
The school was held during July 12-25, 2017. There were 55 participants from 8 countries. The academic program was conducted in English. The participants of the Summer School gained 4 ECTS credits.
Study program
The goal of the Summer School was to give the practice-oriented knowledge in the field of Data Science. The school’s program incorporated three following stages. During the first stage participants attended introductory courses that made them familiar with the main theme of the school. During the second stage the students were involved in several elective practice-oriented courses.
The third stage was dedicated to working on the projects. The project topics were provided by the school’s lecturers. During several days of the project work students implemented and approbated the previously obtained knowledge and skills. The project teams presented their results publicly at the end of the school.
Course list
- General courses
- Applied courses
- Deep Learning for Computer Vision
- Deep Learning for Computer Vision 2. Go deeper
- Machine Learning in Healthcare
- Framework for Problem Solving in Natural Language Processing
- Sentiment analysis. End to end approach
- Social Network Analysis
- Introduction to Urban Data Science
- Mining Georeferenced Data
- Optimizing Internet with Data Science
- Advanced analytics meets customers. Practical examples from Telco, Banking, Retail
- Recommender Systems
Lecturers
The scientists from well-known universities and the leading specialists of the Ukrainian and world’s companies taught at the summer school.
Partners
Lviv Data Science Summer School is supported by the partner companies. We are very grateful to these companies for their contribution.
Ring Labs is an R&D center in Kiev, working with software development in machine learning, computer vision, intellectual data analysis and other artificial intelligence fields. R&D center in Kiev is always welcoming talented developers. Let’s do great things together!
Ciklum is a global software engineering and technology partner. They deliver software engineering excellence to Fortune 500 and fast-growing organizations alike around the world. Since 2002, over 2,500 developers located in the delivery centers across the globe provide their clients with a range of services including extended software development teams, Quality Assurance, R&D, IoT, Big Data, product development and engineering consulting.
ELEKS is a global company that provides full-cycle software engineering services, from ideation to finished products. It was founded in 1991 in Lviv. Today ELEKS has 1000+ professionals and 7 offices in 4 countries. Since 2014, it is among the top 100 best outsourcing companies in the world. Also, starting from 2014 ELEKS is a co-organizer of one of the biggest IT events of Ukraine – IT Arena.
The DAAD is the world’s largest funding organisation for the international exchange of students and researchers. Since it was founded in 1925, around two million scholars in Germany and abroad have received DAAD funding. It is a registered association and its members are German institutions of higher education and student bodies. Its activities go far beyond simply awarding grants and scholarships. The DAAD supports the internationalisation of German universities, promotes German studies and the German language abroad, assists developing countries in establishing effective universities and advises decision makers on matters of cultural, education and development policy.
Technical partner
FlyElephant is a platform for data scientists, engineers and researchers that accelerates their work and makes doing business easier with automated Data Science and Engineering Simulation.
Our customers can quickly access different Clouds and HPC clusters from a single place; with just one click, get infrastructure with the software and the computing resources that they need; create projects, invite colleagues to join them and share the results within the projects; and deploy computing tasks as APIs without engineers or DevOps.
FlyElephant is not just a software platform, it is also an expert community. Our partner companies and individual experts can help you solve any of your issues in Data Science and Engineering Simulation array.
Participants’ projects
- Optimizing ambulance service with AI instruments
- Predicting the e-commerce churn
- Transfer Learning – from English to German, from Russian to Ukrainian
- ODS Slack exploration
- Public transport geodata analysis
- Geotag Coverage & Mutual Attention
- Analyzing Ukrainian Parliament Network
- Audiences analysis of political public pages in Facebook
- Alzheimer’s disease prediction. Team 1
- Alzheimer’s disease prediction. Team 2
- Video Activity Recognition