Save your date! Barcelona Data Science Meeting

Join Barcelona GSE for the first edition of the Barcelona Data Science Meeting, taking placeMarch 21-22, 2016 at UPF’s Ciutadella Campus.

Organized by the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics with participation of the Ramón Areces Foundation, this two-day meeting will bring together international Data Science experts from academia and industry:

DAY 1: RESEARCH IN DATA SCIENCE
Alberto Cavallo (MIT)
“The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Data for Inflation Measurement and Research”
Costantinos Daskalakis (MIT)
“Testing and Learning Distributions in Sublinear Time”
Andrew Gelman (Columbia University)
“Little Data: How Traditional Statistical Ideas Remain Relevant in a Big-Data World; or, The Statistical Crisis in Science; or, Open Problems in Bayesian Data Analysis”
Alexandros Karatzoglou (Telefonica)
“Deep Learning”
Modesto Orozco (IRB)
“Flops and Bytes in Biology”

DAY 2: DATA SCIENCE APPLICATIONS FOR BUSINESS AND INSTITUTIONS
Speakers from companies will be announced shortly.
The conference aims to create an open environment for debate and exchange of knowledge, ideas, and views among researchers, professional experts, and students. We hope you will join us for the inaugural edition!

REGISTRATION AND MEETING DETAILS
Registration deadline: March 14, 2016

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