Statistics Class Back to Kevin St.

The Probability & Statistical Inference class on Tuesday 18th October will be back in room G028 in Kevin St. From now we will use both the labs in Aungier St and the lecture room in Kevin St depending on what content is being covered. Notice will be given on this blog and via email as early as possible.

New Data Mining Class

Due to the large number of MSc students who are taking the Data Mining class on a Monday evening, a additional class has been scheduled.

All full-time students must attend the new time slot. Any part-time students who can attend during the day should do so too.

The additional class will be on Thursday 10:00-13:00 in room KA-1-017 (computer lab on first floor of the annex building)

This new arrangement will commence week of 17th Oct.

Brendan

Judges Bans Bayes

An interesting story from the Guardian about the use of statistical evidence in court cases:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/oct/02/formula-justice-bayes-theorem-miscarriage

Lack of understanding seems to be the key issue.

Like Bon Jovi

Analytics practitioners are like "Bon Jovi ... circa 1986"! I'm not surer we should all start growing mullets and wearing tight trousers just yet but there is some interesting info in the following article about the importance of analytics:

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/09/26/data-scientists-are-rocking-the-big-data-world/

Data Management Postponed

The Data Management for continuing part-time MSc students class will not begin this Wednesday (21st September) - will be postponed until next week (Wednesday 28th September).

World Intellectual Property Day

William Fry solicitors are organising a briefing around World IP Day
on the evening of May 4th next and are looking to attract graduates
(or soon to be graduates) who have a particular interest in the area
of intellectual property.
It's ideally suited to people who are developing (or hoping to
develop) something innovative as there will be a team of IP lawyers on
hand to provide free advice. (I know lawyers and free in the same
sentence, where's the catch? But, of course they're looking for
potential new clients to work with).

If is interested contact the organisers.
http://www.williamfry.ie/gns/news-events/events/11-01-21/World-Intellectual-Property-Day---Designing-the-Future.aspx

You can mention Frank O'Reilly (a fellow student of yours)as a contact.

Semester 2 Exam Timetable

The grass is being cut again folks and that means it's time to think about exams. The MSc in Computing (Data Analytics) exam timetable is as follows:

Data & Database Design | Friday 20th May | 16:00 - 18:00

Machine Learning | Wednesday 25th May | 16:00 - 18:00

Enterprise Systems Integration | Thursday 26th May | 16:00 - 18:00

The timetable means that everything is over and done with in a week so as to make things easier on folks with work.