Day 5 – Foundations of Data Science I (PM)

14.00-17.00 Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC)

Sessions will consists of a mix of talks and hands-on sessions on the practical implementation of basic Deep Learning workflows and analyses. Topics to be covered will include the frameworks, tools and resources that are commonly available (e.g. Keras, Tensorflow), data preparation, model training/testing and inference. The sessions will also highlight common pitfalls (e.g. overfitting) and their implications in training Deep Learning models.Participants will require laptops for both the course material and hands-on exercises, which will be distributed as Jupyter Notebooks. Hence participants should install on their laptop Python 3 along with the following packages: TensorFlow 2 plus recent releases of numpy, matplotlib, jupyter, ipykernel and scikit-learn. Participants could also install the latest Anaconda environment with all the default packages (https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual) to meet the requirements above.

Speaker biography: Dr. Adam Ralph is a computational/data scientist at the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), the national centre for High-Performance Computing (HPC) in Ireland. His background is in mathematics and he’s part of the data science group at ICHEC, where he has been responsible for much of ICHEC’s teaching activities on various subjects, from scientific programming, data analysis tools such as R and machine/deep learning techniques.

Participants are welcome to join in person (S206 Schumann Building, University of Limerick) or remotely. A Zoom link will circulate to remote participants on Wednesday 24th of August.

There is a 0.5 deduction from the training unit allocation per Enterprise Alliance member joining this session.