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New Jersey Big Data Alliance
Seton Hall University had joined the New Jersey Big Data Alliance (NJBDA) in spring of 2017!
The NJBDA fosters partnerships among industry, academia and government to advance computing innovation and education. The NJBDA will serve as the State’s research, education and outreach consortium in advanced computation and big data.
Speaker Dr. Mark Embree
Professor Dr. Mark Embree, Virginia Tech, will give a presentation at Seton Hall University on March 24, 2007.
Two Challenges in Data Analytics: Educating Undergraduates and Learning from a Building
In 2015 Virginia Tech launched a new undergraduate major in Computational Modeling and Data Analytics. The program, based on ten new courses jointly taught by the Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics Departments, has quickly attracted over 300 majors. In the first part of the talk, we will describe this curriculum and share some lessons we have learned en route to graduating our first class in May.
The second part of the talk will focus on a particular data science application. Virginia Tech’s Goodwin Hall is instrumented with 212 accelerometers welded to the steel frame of the building. Each of these sensors records vibrations at the rate of up to 25,600 samples per second. From this massive data set, the Virginia Tech Smart Infrastructure Lab seeks to learn about many aspects of building occupancy, ranging from day-to-day operating conditions to the detection of an emergency. We will briefly describe the basics of interpolatory matrix factorizations (e.g., CUR decompositions) and show how they can be applied to identify a minimal set of sensors, toward establishing low-cost sensor configurations for instrumenting other buildings. (This talk describes joint work with Pablo Tarazaga, Serkan Gugercin, students in the Virginia Tech Smart Infrastructure Lab, and colleagues in GAiTE LLC.)
Computer Science Track
The computer science program at Seton Hall University includes a track in data science that allows completing the certification in Data Visualization and Analysis! Please contact your adviser or the program director for more information.
Tableau
The Data Visualization course is using the visual analytics software Tableau. Tableau’s data visualization software is provided through the Tableau for Teaching program.