Midwest Big Data Summer School

This fourth edition of the summer school will be held from May 20-23, 2019 in Ames, Iowa. Like previous editions, the summer school consists of a series of tutorials on the beginning and intermediate Data Science topics. The majority of these tutorials include hands-on activities.

The summer school also features following invited speakers and more.

• Rajesh Parekh, Engineering Director, Google
• Julia Wolfe, Visual journalist, FiveThirtyEight
• Thomas Zimmermann, Senior Researcher, Microsoft research
• Srinivas Sridharan, Data Scientist, Corteva
• Adam Hecktman, Director of Technology & Civic Innovation Chicago, Microsoft

This year, the summer school includes six parallel tracks that dig deeper into:

•  Foundations of data science
•  Big Data applications
•  Data Science in Digital agriculture
•  Software Analytics
•  Data Science for Public Good
•  Past, Present, and Future of SAS

An overview of the program this year can be found here: http://mbds.cs.iastate.edu/2019/program.shtml.

Registration for the summer school is open, and the website is here: http://bit.ly/bigdata11333.