Pervasive data science

Max amount of FITech students: 10

The course provides an advanced understanding of Pervasive Data Science (PDS) as an emerging research field resulting from the intersection of Data Science and Pervasive Computing. The course helps the students to learn the fundamentals, architecture and deployment of Pervasive Data Science systems and deepen their knowledge about the applications and emerging challenges and opportunities of PDS.

The course provides a context for understanding how the knowledge obtained in diverse areas relates to Pervasive Data Science and vice-versa. The development of further competencies depends on personal focus, as such:

• Sensing: data science, mobile sensing, machine learning, Internet of Things, Big Data Management
• Pervasive Computing: cloud and edge computing, distributed systems, advanced networking courses

Course contents

Topic 1: Introduction

• Pervasive Data Science: What is PDS?, Applications and Current direction
• The sensing pipeline

Topic 2: Data Collection and Feature Engineering

• Ground Truth
• Signal Processing
• PDS measurements

Topic 3: Modelling and Evaluation

• Data modelling: constraints for modelling, clustering
• Evaluation: model performance, model evaluation, robustness
• Deep Learning and Federated Learning

Topic 4: PDS Programming

• Programming considerations for PDS applications
• Considerations to implement Deep Learning and Federated Learining applications in Python

Topic 5: Other Topics

• Privacy and Security

Course material

The course does not follow any coursebook or set of papers, but each lecture is prepared individually. The teaching materials give references for further readings at the end of each lecture slide set.

The exercises are performend on Python and Jupyter notebooks.

Teaching schedule

Lectures on Tue and Thu at 16-18

The sessions will be given by Zoom and will be available in the course webpage for later access.

Completion methods

There is not a exam for this course. The completion of the course is primarily based on a project work and the weekly tasks (around 50%). There are no attendance requirements, but active participation during the sessions will be taken into account.

More information in the University of Helsinki study guide.

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