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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