A Very Short History of Data Science

A really interesting blog posting pointed out by Brendan Tierney on the history of data science and the relationship betweeen data and knowledge.

http://whatsthebigdata.com/2012/04/26/a-very-short-history-of-data-science/

Presentation Schedule for Knowledge Acquisition and Modelling Wednesday May 2nd

The running order for presentations is below.
Each presentation should be approx. 10 minutes in duration and should cover:

1. The problem considered
2. Elicitation strategy with justification
3. Highlights of knowledge analysis
4. Concept map 
5. Choice of representation with justification
6. Short demo of implementation of representation

Schedule starting at 18.30

#1	Damian Brennan, Olubusola Laiyemo, Michael Brophy
#2	Abolanle Ogunniyi
#3	Christina Goldrick
#4	John Kavanagh
#5	Vincent McKenna
#6	Marcus McQuiston, Christina Shannon, John Brogan, Leah Moriarty
#7	Marek Sopel
BREAK
#8	Nicholas Dillion
#9	Paul Lyons
#10	Peter Clarke
#11	Sonja Monaghan
#12	Tair Kuanyshev
#13	Teresa Bolger
#14	Raj Kumar, Robert Huczek

RWSL Assignment Deadline Thursday May 10th @ 10.00

The final date for submission of Part II of the assignment for both my students and Martin O'Halloran's students is Thursday May 10th May at 10.00

I will be marking all these submissions.

To submit you need to:
Include your final draft as part of your Google Site
Email me at deirdre.lawless@gmail.com and ditmscprogrammes@gmail.com as directed in the assignment
spec
Please make sure you site is shared with both these addresses.

SAS Talk today - Demand for 'second-career' staff

Alam Gormley from SAS has agreed to an informal talk about the demand for 'second-career' staff. SAS in particular have expressed an interest in those who have already had a career in another sector, but who have now supplemented that with IT qualifications.
In (KE-G-007, I think) at 15:00 today.

Semester II 2011/2012 Exam Timetable

The timetable is available at
http://www.dit.ie/media/examinations/kevinstreet/College%20of%20Sciences%20&%20Health%20-%20S2.pdf

Student Programme Feedback

 The institute wishes to collect feedback at a programme level - to participate complete

the survey below before May 14th. This is collated by institute QA managers.

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/851429/q6c-2012

Over the next few weeks individual lecturers will be distributing questionnaires

on the quality of the individual modules which they will use to inform their delivery

of the modules going forward and will feed into general proposals for issues related

to programme delivery relayed via the programme committee.

Research Writing and Scientific Literature 1st May

I will hold a class on Tuesday May 1st to support drafting final papers
This will be an opportunity to get others to read your work and
provide feedback.
If you are interested in participating please indicate via the poll
at the following link before Thursday April 26th

http://www.doodle.com/xm9sweyfeqiu649h

If you are member of Martin O'Halloran's class you are welcome to attend

Knowledge Acquisition and Modelling - Sample Exam Paper

I've made a sample exam paper available at http://www.comp.dit.ie/dlawless/kam.html

I will post sample solutions and marking schemes next week.

Research Writing and Scientific Literature - Classes 24th April, 1st May

The next two classes will be allocated to supporting you creating your papers.
I will be arranging people to work in groups to read each others work and provide feedback.
This will be for 1 hour.
For the remaining hour I will review material on request and provide individual support.


Please indicate which of the days you would prefer for group work - either Tuesday April 24th or Tuesday May 5th - using the following link - 
http://www.doodle.com/xm9sweyfeqiu649h


I will then create groups based on the type of work being done or level of work being done.


If there is anything in particular you would like me to review in class please email me and I will include it.

IBM Ethical Hacking Talk April 19th 4pm Bolton Street

IBM

Getting that Job

Ethical Hacking

Promoting yourself in a Highly Competitive Environment

by

Juan Galiana Lara, Paul McCann & Martin Mitchell

Thursday 19^th April 2012 .

4pm

DIT Bolton Street Room 281

Research Writing and Scientific Literature Tuesday April 17th

I will be available in KE-2-004 to talk to people who are having difficulties with their
research paper submission.

Dublinked Talk Tuesday April 17th @ 17.30 KA-3-020

This talk will be in KA-3-020 @ 17.30

Deirdre Ni Raghallaigh and Dominic Byrne will present on
the  background of Dublinked, public data issues,  more technical issues
on data,  apps that have been developed using Dublinked and Fingal Open

Labs & Demos for IT Security module

Details are sent to ur email, check it!

Dublinked Talk in DIT Tuesday 17th April @ 17.30

We are organising a talk from Dublinked for Tuesday 17th 17.30
I'll confirm location and time Monday

Deirdre Ni Raghallaigh and Dominic Byrne will present on
the  background of Dublinked, public data issues,  more technical issues
on data,  apps that have been developed using Dublinked and Fingal Open
Data.