BSC Training Course: Introduction to Big Data Analytics

BSC Trainings

Data: 24/Mar/2025 Time: 09:00 - 27/Mar/2025 Time: 15:30

Place:

[ONSITE] Room 1-2-1, BSC Main Building

Target group: For trainees with some theoretical and practical knowledge

Cost: There is no registration fee. The course is free of charge.

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1. Day 1 (March 24, 2025)

  • 9:00 – 12:00 Introduction to Big Data (Josep Lluis Berral, Computer Sciences - Data Centric Computing, BSC)
  • 12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
  • 14:00 – 15:30 Good practices for reproducible data science (part 1) (Miguel Ponce de León, Computational Biology, BSC)
  • 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
  • 16:00 – 18:00 Good practices for reproducible data science (part 2) (Patricio Reyes, Data Analytics and Visualization, BSC)

2. Day 2 (March 25, 2025)

Only morning session

  • 9:30 – 11:30 Intro to Data Visualization (Guillermo Marin, Designer for Scientific Visualization, BSC)
  • 11:30 - 13:00 NoSQL databases (Carlos García Calatrava, BSC)

3. Day 3 (March 26, 2025)

Only morning session

  • 09:30 – 11:45 Bias in Science - Sex and Gender Perspective in Big Data Analytics. Part I and Q&A (Atia Cortés and María Flores, LS, BSC)
  • 12:00 – 13:00 Bias in Science - Sex and Gender Perspective in Big Data Analytics. Part II and Q&A (Atia Cortés and María Flores, LS, BSC)

4. Day 4 (March 27, 2025)

For this session you would need to follow some instructions for the hands-on

  • 9:30 – 13:00 Data Analytics with Apache Spark. Part 1(Josep Lluis Berral, Computer Sciences - Data Centric Computing, BSC)
  • 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
  • 14:00 – 15:30 Data Analytics with Apache Spark. Part 2 (Josep Lluis Berral, Computer Sciences - Data Centric Computing, BSC)
  • 15:30 - 17:30h Computational Social Sciences and Humanities (Hèctor Orengo, Caterina Calsamiglia and Álvaro Junquera, Computational Social Sciences and Humanities Laboratory, BSC)

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