Exam Timetable + Exam Number for Winter Exams

Your exam numbers and timetables will be distributed to you next week.
I will be in touch next Monday to let you know mechanism, times and locations.
If anyone can't make it in to receive their number and timetable - these
will be posted out to them

CLASS CANCELLED: Probability & Statistical Inference November 30th

Due to the extreme weather there will be no class for Probability & Statistical Inference this evening Tuesday Nov 30th.

Research Methods Class Tuesday 30th Nov 2010

Due to the extreme weather and the material due to be covered
tonight there will be no class for research methods this evening
Tuesday Nov 30th

Lab Opening Saturdays

Access will be provided to the computer labs from
Saturday December 4th.

Sabremetrics: Analytics in Sports

Seeing as we were talking about predicting player ratings in stats class on Tuesday night here is an interesting article about using analytics in sports.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/8098829/Liverpool-owners-looking-to-use-baseball-principles-such-as-Moneyball-and-Sabermetrics.html

Free Accenture Analytics Event

Accenture in conjunction with The Irish Times are holding a business breakfast briefing focusing on “Using Analytics To Create Your Own Upturn” from 8am - 10am on 30th November 2010 in their offices in 1 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2 (right next to the Grand Canal Theatre). Details are available here:

http://www.analyticsinstitute.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=185&Itemid=189

This could be really interesting for folks to attend.

Provisional Semester 1 Exam Dates

For your information, at the moment the two exams for DT286 are scheduled as follows:

Module: Data Mining

Date: Monday, 10th January

Time: 13:00 - 15:00

Module: Probability & Statistical Inference

Date: Wednesday, 12th January

Time: 13:00 - 15:00

These are provisional dates and are subject to change. Following the DIT academic calendar (http://www.dit.ie/services/academic/calendar/) exams will all take place between the 10th and 21st of January.

Interesting application of analytics

Lingle – the result of a joint translational research project between members of the DIT Applied Intelligence Research Centre, the DIT School of Art, Design and Printing and the National Digital Research Centre (www.ndrc.ie) – launched in private beta this week at www.lingleonline.com.

Lingle is an online tool to facilitate English-as-a-second-language (ESL) teaching and learning. It saves users time and effort in sourcing and preparing real-world, relevant, appropriate and current course material based on authentic texts (e.g. newspaper articles or blog posts) and helps them exploit these texts for learning and teaching.

Lingle is an interesting use of analytics in that prediction models, built from a large collection of levelled documents, are used to assess the difficulty level of a document for a student.

Visit www.lingleonline.com now to request an invitation to join the beta.

SAS Server

It appears that the SAS server is now running correctly.

Brendan

Case Studies Session on BI

The MSc case studies session this Saturday (6th November) will be given by SAP on organisational BI. this is very relevant to all data analytics students and might be worth attending.

Details are available at: http://ditmsckm.blogspot.com/2010/11/case-studies-presentation-6-november.html