Academic interest: This summer school complements the background of students from a variety of disciplines with the theoretical and practical fundamentals of those modern techniques employed in the analysis and modelling of large data sets.

Scientific interest: Any scientist, regardless of her field (whether engineering, life sciences, economics, etc.) is confronted with the problem of extracting conclusions from experimental data. The summer school supplies experimentalists with the sufficient resources to be able to select the appropriate analysis technique and to apply it to their specific problem.

Professional interest: The application of modern data analysis is widespread in the industry it is practically needed in nearly all disciplines. There are plenty job offers in the field: a Glassdoor.com search as of March 2017 retrieves around 9,000 offers for “data science” and around 14,000 offers for ‘data mining’, all within the USA only.

The goal of this summer school is to complement the technical background of attendees in the field of data analysis and modelling. The courses are open to any student or professional wanting to enrich her knowledge of a topic that is more and more involved in nearly all productive areas (Computer Science, Engineering, Pharmacy, Medicine, Economics, Statistics, etc.).

A second objective is to get the student acquainted with a set of computational tools for applying the learned techniques. This may involve tackling practical problems from the student’s own work environment, i.e., working with a student’s own data set.

Note that the summer school is on advanced techniques and the courses will provide insight into modern techniques that, nearly by definition, are not mathematically trivial. Although emphasis is placed on their use and not on the underlying mathematics, attendees should not be afraid or surprised of seeing some mathematics. Teachers will make the course content accessible to students from all backgrounds. To make course attendance easier, the student is supposed to be familiar with certain concepts that are described as “prerequisites” and she is encouraged to read the “before attending documents” in order to benefit from the course as much as possible.