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Place: Ghent, Belgium
Dates: 1 July 2015 to 11 July 2015
Season: summer15
Organised by: BEST Group Ghent
University: Ghent University
(See University profile in BEST university centre)
Type: BEST Course on Technology
Fee: 44.0 euro. Convert to

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Application until: 23 Mar 2015 at 23:00 CET
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Participation requirements: Prior knowledge required (Have prior knowledge about statistics and probability.)
Academic complexity: Advanced [Read more]
Working time: 30 hours (estimated)

General description

150 billion emails a day.

500 million tweets a day.

2 million Google searches in only one minute!

Are you wondering how all this data is stored? Want to know how these BIG amounts of DATA can be analysed?? Then read on!

With the current technologies we produce more data than we ever have. In fact, the world has created more than 90% of the data in the past two years! If you burned all of the data created in just one day onto DVDs, you could stack them on top of each other and reach the moon - twice!

Are you curious about all the applications big data has in store? Do you want to learn how we manipulate and use this data to our advantage? Then this is the right course for you, because it aims to give you an understanding in the world of "Big Data".

And all this while visiting the beautiful city of Ghent, tasting the best Belgian beers, our well-know French fries and our culture first hand!

So what are you waiting for?! Write your motivation letter and join us in the fun this Summer! Until then :D

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