One-week workshop on Practical Applications of Data Mining, IBM-Bluemix, and IBM-Watson 33 SAINT MARY'S (December 5-9, 2016) UNIVERSITY S< ‘One University. One World. Yours. National Institute of Technology Goa Byer coat Dr. Pawan Lingras Mr. Stephen Greene ee eee ere ec TCP UT Meer at Cee een ROLCLY Prada eee ke rst) eRe) Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Overview: Education, research, and practice of Computing Science (CS) and Information Technology (IT) has taken an added dimension with a significant accumulation of data leading to a data explosion. Corporations have coined the term Big Data to distinguish the current state of data accumulation from the previous data processing cfforts. While managing the big data is a challenge, it is mostly viewed as an opportunity to improve business and industry practices. ‘This course is divided into two parallel streams: data mining and development of analytics applications. Data mining stream focuses on the use of data analytics across many aspects of business and industry. We will begin with a deep yet accessible understanding of the mathematics behind the data mining techniques. The mathematical understanding of the data mining techniques enables practitioners to conform these techniques to their analytical needs. ‘We will earn how to apply these techniques to real-world problems. Analytical application development stream guides students through two of the cutting edge IBM technologies: Bluemix and Watson. With developer-centric compute models, instant access to over 150 services — including ones that facilitate modern architecture and delivery practices around mobile, microservices, DevOps and continuous delivery — Bluemix makes it easier to ship powerful, high-quality software every day. IBM Watson is a technology platform that uses natural language processing and machine learning to reveal insights from large amounts of unstructured data. Students will develop web, mobile, and cloud technologies to develop apps using Bluemix. The apps will be farther enhanced with advanced data analytics using IBM Watson based on relationships between multiple datasets. Objectives: 1, Learn the mathematics behind the data mining techniques with the help of tracing the algorithms through numeric calculations. Learn the essentials of R programming language. Learn how to model real-world objects using available data. Apply data mining techniques to discover meaningful knowledge. Use TBM-Bluemix to develop web, mobile, and cloud apps Use IBM-Watson along with Bluemix to develop data analytics applications Combining knowledge from multiple datascts to enhance analytics NOB aeD Hands-on learning: ‘The instructors are practitioners of active learning methodology. In the data mining stream, every lecture will include hands on learning including, working through numerical examples to understand the algorithms. Students will use of a real-world retail datasets and MySQL to learn data cleaning, processing and modeling. The processed datasets and the language R will be used for unsupervised profiling of customers and products, supervised classification of customer purchasing power based on the products bought, use of prediction techniques for inventory management, and finally market basket analysis for creating recommender systems. ‘The instructor has experience with retail datasets from a national supermarket chain, a smaller specialty store chain, and a large wholesaler. Students will use one of these datasets, MySQL, and R to learn real world data mining skills to gain practical experience as well as an understanding of design of research experiments. The analytical application development stream will begin with developing simple applications and deploying them for multiple web and mobile platforms. The students will learn the use of cloud foundry for application development. These simple applications will then be extended with analytics on large datasets using two of IBM’s cutting edge technologies: Bluemix and Watson. The course will end with an exciting mini-hackathon, where the students will pitch an idea, rapidly prototype an app and present it to the judges.Who can attend + Exceutives, engineers and researchers from information technology, service, engineering and government organizations including R&D laboratories. + Seudene students at all levels (BTech/MSe/M'Tech/PhD) or Faculty from reputed academic institutions and technical institutions, About the teaching faculty Pawan Lingras is a Professor of Mathematics and Computing Science and Director of M.Se.in Computing and Data Analytics at Saint Mary's University, Halifax. He has authored more than 200 research papers in various international journals and conferences. He has also co-authored three textbooks, co-edited two books, and nine volumes of research papers. He has been Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grant recipient for 25 years, as well as other commercialization fanding programs including NSERC Engage, NRC/IRAP, Nova Scotia Productivity and Innovation fund, and Mitacs. His research and commercialization projects include data mining, big data, retail mining, wearable technology, Internet of Things, sensor data analysis, Web usage mining, image processing, engineering process mining, clustering - pattern profiling, prediction, automated classification, association mining and optimization using evolutionary algorithms. He is an active organizer and reviewer for a number of international conferences and journals. Pawan is a recipient of Father William A. Stewart, SJ., Medal for Excellence in Teaching by the alumni association and Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence award by the student association both at Saint Mary's University. He was the coach of Saint Mary's CS Huskies programming team from 1999-2010, during which the team won eight Atlantic Canadian Championships, fous runner-up finishes, and one trip to the World Finals (Hawaii, 2002). He continues to mentor students in a variety of app development competitions. Pawan is a graduate of IIT Bombay with graduate studies from University of Regina. His co-authors include professionals from Canada, India, China, Tunisia, USA, UK, Germany, Norway, and Chile. He was the Director of a Business Administration and Computing program in the ‘The Gambia, West Africa. He recently served as a University Grant Council (UGC) fanded ‘Scholar-in-Residence at SRTM University, Nanded, and as a visiting professor at IIT Gandhinagar, both in India. During these ‘wo visits in 2011-12, he extensively traveled through India giving more than 40 invited talks. He has also previously served as a Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Scholar. Hee has also participated in Science tour of Germany and most recently served as 2 visiting faculty at Munich University of Applied Sciences. Stephen Greene is a Development Practice Leader in IBM’s Global Delivery Center in Halifax, Canada. He is responsible for oversceing software development and support services for a number of leading businesses. Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Greene was a Software Architect, first at Metals Economics Group and later at Mariner Tanovations. Stephen has extensive software development experience both as programmer and senior software development project manager in a number of companies including Xela Human Resource Solutions and Metals Economics Group. His areas of expertise include Software development, Agile methodologies, Requirements Analysis, Business Analysis, Data Architecture, Integration Architecture, Design patterns, and Web services. His technical portfolio includes, Java, C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, XML, C++, SQL, and a number of other related technologies. Registration Fee: Rs, 6000: For faculty members, Industry persons, Rs. 5000: For research scholars, Rs, 4000: For PG/UG students. Det Introduction to data mining: + Clustering + Classification + Association “Evaluation metrics for + Clustering + Classification + Association Pe ES een eas tad + Tntoduction to TBM Bluemix and cloud foundary + Development and deployment of a simple application for different web| and mobile platforms ‘Development and deployment of a data driven application using Bluemix Modeling, implementing, and analyzing unsupervised clustering of customers ~ Tntzoduction to IBM Watson + Exploring Watson's analytical capabilities using a number of datasets ‘Modeling, implementing, and analyzing supervised classification of customers based on their purchasing patterns + Adding Watson Analytics to the Bluemix app developed earlier “+ Adding another related dataset to the Bluemix app Implementing association mining Launch of the mini-hackathon ‘Mini hackathon + Students will form teams to create an interesting extension of the app| that was developed eazlier + Teams pitching their ideas and receiving feedback from the faculty «+ Rapid prototyping of the app Conveners: Dr. Damodar Reddy Falla Ansistane Profesor & Head, Computer Science and Engineering National Instat of Technology Gon Cot 91-9765127165, Ema: dezeddy@nitgoaacin SAINT MARY'S UNtveRstry ‘One University. One Wer. Yours. Venue: National Institute of Technology Goa