SAS Ireland New Positions Presentation

SAS Ireland have a significant number of very interesting analytics positions coming up in the near future. These will involve working with SAS in Ireland and training with their international centres of excellence.

Representatives from SAS would like to come in to present these positions to you and answer any questions that you might have. They are also interested in accepting CVs from interested candidates on the day. The details of this session are as follows:

Date: Thursday the 7th of June
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Location:  Room KA 3-021, Kevin St.

So that I can gauge likely attendance (and arrange tea and biscuits!) could you please let me know if you will be coming along?

I will forward on any further information on the positions as I receive it.

Machine Learning Results Published

The Machine Learning assignment results have now been published on the module Webcourses page. Please note that these are indicative provisional results and will not be finalised until after examination boards have taken place.

Overall performance was very good. The submissions to Kaggle were strong and some groups managed to threaten the top of the various leaderboards.The credit scoring contest was by far the most popular but there were also good submissions in the automatic essay grading, bond prediction, car classification and biological response prediction contests.

Game Over: Churn in Games

This article from gamasutra.com is a nice example of churn prediction in a very different setting than usual - predicting whether or not players will leave an online game.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/170472/predicting_churn_datamining_your_.php

DubLinked Data Visualisation Event (24th May)

On Thursday 24th May DubLinked will hold a data visualisation event to explore the area of data visualisation, learn about available data visualisation tools.  Speakers on the day will provide an overview of the current state of play in the area, future trends and identify challenges in the area. There will be practical demonstrations of creating visualisations, followed by a workshop where participants will be invited to create visualisations using Dublinked data- so why not bring your laptop on the day to create your own data visualisation.

More details are available at: http://www.dublinked.ie/?q=datavisualisationevent

Possible Dissertation Idea

Check out the article in the May 2012 New Scientist called, 'Making Numbers Punch their Weight'.

There might be some Data Analytics type dissertation projects using the methods covered in this article.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428635.500-font-for-digits-lets-numbers-punch-their-weight.html

Good Luck

Good luck to everyone in the exams over the coming weeks.

SAP Competition for Students

THE COMPETITION

In 2012 SAP University Alliances will be hosting an exciting new competition in collaboration with the 2012 European 2012 Football Championships. Students can make use of the actual results of the football championships combined with a free download of the Crystal Dashboard design software from the University Alliances Community.

Students at universities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are invited to participate in this competition. Each participating team is to develop a dashboard using SAP Crystal Dashboard Design to display and analyse the results of the games throughout the Euro 2012 competition. Each week a new version of the results from the competition will be uploaded here for students to download in Excel format. Students can then build, week on week through the competition, their dashboards in Crystal Dashboard Design.

Each team's dashboard will be judged on its usefulness, usability, data quality and presentation, subject to the terms and conditions below.
Download a poster, share on bulletin boards, and distribute to students!

RECOGNITION OPPORTUNITIES

The top three student teams will make it through to our finals and win a valuable prize from SAP. The final overall winner will be judged by our panel of design experts and crowned overall Best Dashboard Design for the University Alliances program, EMEA, 2012.

Finalist teams will present their dashboards to a panel of judges and key User Group Meeting attendees. The winning team will be announced at the SAP University Alliances EMEA User Group Meeting.

IMPORTANT DATES
Closing date for registration of teams: June 1st, 2012
Closing date for submission of dashboard entries: July 13th, 2012
Notification of 3 finalist teams by SAP: August 10th, 2012
Finals: September 6-7th, 2012

RULES
Each university can submit multiple teams but each team must consist of no more than 3 named students.

The dashboard must be built using SAP Crystal Dashboard Design (software available for free download - Windows operating system required.)

Entries must submit a dashboard and a 10 minute recorded presentation showcasing their dashboard.

All submissions (dashboard and documentation) must be in English.

All submitted materials must be original materials created by the members of the applicable team.

GETTING STARTED
Students must first register their team. Read the terms and conditions.

STEPS AND RESOURCES
Students: Review these steps and resources to understand the Football Championships, download software, learn dashboarding, and submit your team's entry: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-26542

For general inquiries, send an email to emeadashboard@sap.com.