By Kurt Stockinger (ZHAW)
As part of “Zürich meets San Francisco – A Festival Of Two Cities”, the ZHAW Datalab co-organized the event Data Science and Beyond: Technical, Economic and Societal Challenges, which took place at the campus of San José State University (SJSU) – in the heart of Silicon Valley. One interesting fact about SJSU is that it has the highest number of graduates among all US universities that get jobs either at Apple or Cisco.
The aim of the PhD Network in Data Science is to offer students with a master degree (including degrees from an university of applied sciences) the opportunity to obtain a PhD in cooperation between a university of applied sciences and a university.
The PhD Network in Data Science is supported by Swissuniversities. It is a cooperation between three departments of ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences (School of Management and Law, Life Science and Facility Management, School of Engineering), three departments of the University of Zurich (Faculty of Science, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences), the Faculty of Science at the University of Neuchatel and the Department of Innovative Technologies at SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland.
PhD students work in applied research projects at the university of applied sciences and are supervised jointly by a supervisor at the university and a co-supervisor at the university of applied sciences. They are enrolled in the regular PhD programs of the partner universities and have to go through the standard admission procedure. After successful completion they receive the doctorate of the respective partner university (UZH or UNIBE). The PhD Network is also open to students with a master’s degree from a university of applied sciences. They, however, have to go through convergence programs (specific to the respective faculty) for admission to the partner universities.
You can find more information on our new website!
Reviewed by Thoralf Mildenberger (ZHAW)
In the last few years, statistical hypothesis testing – with the p-value still being THE standard for reporting results in many fields of science – has increasingly been criticized. Many researchers have even called for abandoning the “NHST” (Null Hypothesis Significance Testing) approach all together. I think this is going too far as many problems are due to misapplication of the techniques and – perhaps even more importantly – misinterpretation of the results. There is also no consensus on how to replace hypothesis testing with a better methodology – some of the more moderate critics suggest using confidence intervals, but while these are often more informative they are essentially equivalent to hypothesis tests and share some of the problems. This makes it all the more important to highlight difficulties in the correct application and interpretation of statistical methodology. Continue reading
By Kurt Stockinger (ZHAW)
The final results of an interdisciplinary study funded by „TA Swiss“ on „Quantified Self“ with participation of the Datalab have been published. The study was performed by three ZHAW departments (School of Health Professions, School of Management and Law, School of Engineering) in cooperation with the Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment, Berlin. The focus of the Datalab was on legal and Big Data aspects of quantified self.
The results are available in various forms:
Enjoy reading and maybe you get encouraged to “quantify yourself” a bit better 😉
By Dirk Wilhelm (ZHAW)
Reposted from https://blog.zhaw.ch/industrie4null/2018/01/10/phd-network-in-data-science/
Studierende können nun an der ZHAW in Kooperation mit der Universität Zürich oder der Universität Neuenburg im Bereich Data Science doktorieren. Continue reading
2nd European COST Conference on Mathematics for Industry in Switzerland
September 7, 2017
Zurich University of Applied Sciences,
Technikumstr. 71, 8400 Winterthur
By Jörg Osterrieder (ZHAW)
Below please find a short recap and an outlook for our next conference on September 6, 2018.
The aim of this conference was to bring together European academics, young researchers, students and industrial practitioners to discuss the application of Artificial Intelligence to various practical fields. In a broader context, we wanted to promote «Mathematics for Industry» in Switzerland, as part of the European COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action “Mathematics for Industry”, where members of ZHAW are in the management committee for Switzerland. Continue reading
By Matthias Templ (ZHAW), Thoralf Mildenberger (ZHAW)
By way of example, functionality of Reduce() is shown in in https://blog.zhaw.ch/datascience/r-reduce-applys-lesser-known-brother/ . It’s great to learn about how to use this function on interesting problems. If you are ready (equals if you read the first blog post on Reduce), we want to push you further on writing efficient code. Continue reading
By Thoralf Mildenberger (ZHAW)
Everybody who knows a bit about R knows that in general loops are said to be evil and should be avoided, both for efficiency reasons and code readability, although one could argue about both.
The usual advice is to use vector operations and apply() and its relatives. sapply(), vapply() and lapply() work by applying a function on each element of a vector or list and return a vector, matrix, array or list of the results. apply() applies a function on one of the dimensions of a matrix or array and returns a vector, matrix or array. These are very useful, but they only work if the function to be applied to the data can be applied to each element independently of each other.
There are cases, however, where we would still use a for loop because the result of applying our operation to an element of the list depends on the results for the previous elements. The R base package provides a function Reduce(), which can come in handy here. Of course it is inspired by functional programming, and actually does something similar to the Reduce step in MapReduce, although it is not inteded for big data applications. Since it seems to be little known even to long-time R users, we will look at a few examples in this post. Continue reading
by Thilo Stadelmann (ZHAW)
In 2014, ZHAW Datalab started the SDS conference series. It was the year with only one Swiss data scientist identifiable on LinkedIn (at Postfinance…). The year where we talked about “Big Data”, and not “Digitization”. The year where we were unsure if such a thing as a Swiss data science community would exist, and if it actually would come to such an event.
SDS grew from a local workshop to a conference with over 200 participants and international experts as keynote speakers in 2016. This was the year where finally a Swiss-wide network of strong partners form academia and industry emerged to push innovation in data-driven value creation: the Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services (www.data-service-alliance.ch). We as datalabbers have been instrumental in founding this alliance, and then found it to be the perfect partner to take this event to the next level of professionalism.
By Lukas Tuggener (ZHAW)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ltuggener/
Reposted from https://medium.com/@ltuggener/who-is-scared-of-the-big-bad-robot-dc203e2cd7c4
There currently is much talk about the recent developments of AI and how it is going to affect the way we live our lives. While fears of super intelligent robots, which want to end all human live on earth, are mostly held by laymen. There are other concerns, however, which are also very common amongst insiders of the field. Most AI experts agree that the short to midterm impact of AI developments will mostly revolve around automating complex tasks, rather than “artificially intelligent beings”. The well-known AI researcher Andrew Ng put it this way: Continue reading
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