BigDataFinance training event: Data Science in Finance

Date: 22-26 August, 2016
Location: Tampere University of Technology
Room: TB109 (Tietotalo building)
www.tut.fi
ECTS: 4

Agenda

Monday 22.8.

9:00-12:00
*Kick-Off (only for BigDataFinance network members)
Project Manager Maria Salomaa, Professor Juho Kanniainen

Lunch Break

13:00-16:00
Complementary skills:
Ethics (Prof. Hannu Kärkkäinen) [slides]
Scientific Writing (group working)

16:00-17:00
Training with Bloomberg (Pat Moore, Bloomberg; Marko Grobelnik, JSI)

 

Tuesday 23.8.

9:00-10:00
Training with Bloomberg (Pat Moore, Bloomberg; Marko Grobelnik, JSI)

10:00 -12:00
Machine Learning in Finance (Dr Drona Kandhai, Dr Sumit Sourabh, Ioannis Anagnostou, ING) [slides]

Lunch Break

13:00-15:00
Data Science: Holistic Approach (Matti Vakkuri, Tieto)

15:00-16:00
Intrinsic Finance (Anton Golub, Olsen) [slides]

16:00-17:00
Introduction to Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Dr. Alexandros Iosifidis, TUT) [slides]

17:30 –>
Dinner & Sauna + swimming at Höytämö lake, bring your own towel and swimsuit!

 

Wednesday 24.8.

Data Management (Dr. Timo Aaltonen, TUT) [all Timo’s slides]
9:00 -12:00 Lessons
– Big data
– Apache Hadoop
– HDFS
– MapReduce
– Apache Flume

Lunch Break

13:00-16:00 Hands-on training (Dr Aaltonen cont.)
– The course project is implementing a clickstream analysis with Hadoop
– The work is carried out with students’ own laptops

16:00-17:00
Training with Bloomberg (Pat Moore, Bloomberg; Marko Grobelnik, JSI)

 

Thursday 25.8.

8:00-9:00
Training with Bloomberg (Pat Moore, Bloomberg; Marko Grobelnik, JSI) [slides]

Data Management (Dr. Timo Aaltonen, TUT) [all Timo’s slides]
9:00-13:00 Lessons on Sqoop, Pig, Hive
10:00-12:00 Hands-on training
12:00-13:00 Discussion

Lunch Break

14:00-16:00
Evolutionary Learning (Prof. Serkan Kiranyaz/Ms Jenni Raitoharju, TUT) [slides]

16:00-17:00
Scientific Writing (Part II)

 

Friday 26.8.

9:00-12:00
Probabilistic and Statistical Learning (Dr. Alexandros Iosifidis, TUT) [slides]

Lunch Break

13:00-16:00
Neural Networks (Prof. Anastasios Tefas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) [slides]

 

For more information, please contact: juho.kanniainen(at)tut.fi

*Kick-off session is for BigDataFinance participants only. The other sessions are open also for external participants.