Fall Workshop Series: CQADS

October 2016 | Carleton University

The Centre for Quantitative Analysis and Decision Support (CQADS), located at Carleton University, is oering an inaugural series of workshops this Summer Data Science and Analytics, and their applications for decision making in the real world. This 3-day series of workshops will run on campus, and is open to interested parties in the public and private sectors. The workshop series will be run by the CQADS Managing Consultant, Dr. Patrick Boily.

• When: October 2016 (exact dates TBD)
  Time: All day
• Cost: $1800 + HST
• Intended Audience: Anyone
• Email contact: cqads@carleton.ca
• More information available here

Workshops

• Introduction to Analytics: Preparing and Visualizing Data
  An introduction to the notions that must be mastered prior to, and after, embarking on data analysis, along with a discussion of common challenges and pitfalls.
• Mining for Information Gold: Data Science Concepts and Techniques
  An introduction to the fundamental data science concepts involved in data mining, with a detailed discussion of three common analytical concepts: classication, clustering, and association rules.
• Simple Data Discovery: Exploring Data with R
  The goal of this workshop is to give participants some introductory experience extracting patterns and knowledge from real datasets using R, in order to increase their understanding of how data science can provide insight into problems.
• Getting Technical: More Data Science Methods
  A continuation of the introduction of data science concepts started in workshop #2, with a detailed discussion of seven specic methods/concepts which are commonly used by data scientists: support vector machines, articial neural networks, logistic regression, naive Bayes classiers, random forests, hierarchical clustering, and density clustering.

For more details, please see our Workshop Descriptions.

Cost

$1800 + HST per person.
Includes coffee/snacks, lunch each day, as well as a welcome reception and dinner on June 22nd

Registration

Registration deadline is September 20, 2016.
Space is limited to 30 participants, so be sure to register early at: http://cqads.carleton.ca/workshops