Monday, November 20, 2017

Come Join IVIC 2017 Educational Workshops

Workshops

1. EXCAVATE DATA FOR DECISION, HORTON SANDBOX: HDP & HDF

Hortonworks Sandbox for Hadoop Data Platform (HDP) and Horton works Data Flow (HDF) is quick and easy personal desktop environment to get started learning, exploring, developing, testing and trying new features. This three hours workshop provides an overview of the Apache Hadoop Eco System. The HDF Sandbox is also a single node cluster for data flow and stream processing based on Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka and Apache Storm. Parton’s gain hands on experience through HDP sandbox basics, real-world examples. The workshop covers the topics from visualization framework with end user capable of displaying analytics data at different geographic levels. The data sources will be from CSV or Spark.
Details of the workshop can be downloaded here.

Date: 30th November 2017

Time: 9am – 5pm

Venue : Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Fee: Refer here

Speakers & Instructors :

  • J. Joshua Thomas, Ph.D. (Senior Lecturer – Computing)
    Department of Computing, KDU Penang University College.
  • Bahari Belaton, Ph.D., (Assoc. Prof. Dr.)
    School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia.

 2. PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS WITH RapidMiner

RapidMiner Studio is a powerful visual design environment for rapidly building complete predictive analytic workflows. This all-in-one tool features hundreds of pre-defined data preparation and machine learning algorithms to support all your data science projects. This workshop is focusing on data mining and predictive analytics with RapidMiner Studio. During this training, participant will explore few business use cases and build the analytical model with RapidMiner.  Practical exercises during the training will prepare the participants to take the knowledge gained and apply to their own respective data mining problems in the future.
Details of the workshop can be downloaded here.

Date: 30th November 2017

Time: 9am – 5pm

Venue : Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Fee: Refer here

Speakers & Instructors :

  • Amelia Ritahani Ismail, Ph.D., (Assoc. Prof. Dr.)
    Kulliyyah of ICT, International Islamic University Malaysia.

3. FORENSIC ACCOUNTING USING DATA MINING TECHNIQUE

Data mining is the process of looking for trends, patterns, and anomalies within a data set, in this case will be the accounting data. Unusual data or anomalies may signal the need of further or in-depth investigation by the forensic accounting investigators.
Details of the workshop can be downloaded here.

Date: 30th November 2017

Time: 9am – 5pm

Venue : Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Fee: Refer here

Speakers & Instructors :

  • Syed Nasir Syed Zakaria Alsagoff, (Assoc. Prof.)
    Faculty of Defence Science and Technology, National Defence University of Malaysia.

4. GPU PROGRAMMING USING OPENACC

The GPU is the modern face of supercomputing, packing the power of many multicore machines into a single card that fits routinely into desktop machines. To take advantage of the GPU, it has to be programmed using a suitable language, one of which is OpenACC. In this course, you will learn how to accelerate code with OpenACC on GPUs and x86 CPUs. You will learn how to parallelize, profile and optimize code, as well as manage data movements and utilize multiple GPUs.
Details of the workshop can be downloaded here.

Date: 30th November 2017

Time: 9am – 5pm

Venue : Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Fee: Refer here

Speakers & Instructors :

  • Mohammed Nordin Zakaria, Ph.D. (Senior Lecturer)
    high Performance Computing Centre, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia.

Workshop Registration

Please download the registration form (PDF) or (MS Word) and send the completed from and proof of payment to admin@ivic.org.my