So What is This About?

The richness and importance of the information conveyed by data has led to a rapid increase in the influence of data on individuals and society. Data of various kinds, such as the enormous data collections on the Internet, has become omnipresent in virtually all aspects of our society. Digital data has become the key to innovations in both social and scientific domains ranging from energy, economy, health and climate to bioinformatics and web science.

About Programme

Fundamental and practical issues of the analysis of data will be addressed, including e.g. security of data and software, visualization of information, decision making from data, and high performance computing algorithms. Data Science and Technology is meant for students who want to develop and use software that give meaning to data in order to support experts from various application domains (such as economy, medicine and marketing) to better understand the information that they possess by means of data science techniques.