Introduction to Data Science and AI (course during afternoons)

The course consists of two half-day workshops together with online lectures and exercises between the workshops. Additionally, you will be asked some questions to think about before the first workshop to maximize the benefit of the course. The workshops will mix initial lectures and group exercises to discuss how these technologies can be used to solve business problems. The total workload is approximately 20 hours.

The lectures and exercises will together convey knowledge in the following areas:

History and development of AI

Modelling and data science

Algorithms, optimization and classical rule-based AI

Machine-learning based AI

How to use data science and AI in different applications and settings

Societal and ethical questions and other consideration

The course will be delivered in the afternoons of 7 and 14 January, 2022