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DO WE SUFFER A DATA SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE GAP?
Bart Hamers, BDSC
DATA SCIENCE GAP?
• Belgian companies want to integrate in data science in their existing operations for efficiency or to explore new business opportunities .
• Data science needs a very specific knowledge and environment to be a success !
• Do we have data science expertise in Belgium?
Yes,… we have everything it needs!
PERFECT COCKTAIL
Data Science Enthusiasm
Business Opportunities
Skills
High level academic training
Research
We have a long standing tradition in top research in (applied) statistics and artificial intelligence!
Pattie Maes, MIT Media Laboratory
Luc Steels, AI Lab, SONY Computer Science Laboratory
Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton and Duke University
Luc Devroye,McGill
Paul Embrechts, Swiss Fed. Institute of Technology
And… I ran out of place…
BELGIAN EXPERTISE
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS IN BELGIUM
University of Brussels
• Master of Science in de ingenieurswetenschappen: computerwetenschappen
University of Antwerp
• Master in computer science with a specialization in data science: profile Artificiële Intelligentie
University of Gent
• Master of Science in Marketing Analysis• Marketing Engineering• Master of Science in Statistical Data Analysis
University of Leuven (KUL)
• Master of Artificial Intelligence• Master of Financial and Actuarial Engineering• Master of Statistics• Master of Bioinformatics
University of Leuven (UCL Louvain-La-Neuve)
• Master in Statistics
University of Liege
• Master in Statistics
Solvay Business School
• Master in Quantitative Finance
Vlerick Business School
• Executive master class creating business value with big data.
Transnational University Limburg – Hasselt - Maastricht
• Artificial Intelligence• Master of Statistics
15 programs training data scientists…
SKILLS OF A DATA SCIENTIST!
WHAT IS NECESSARY TO LEARN DATA SCIENCE?
WHAT IS NECESSARY TO LEARN DATA SCIENCE?
Bart Hamersbe.linkedin.com/in/hamersbart