IoT & Data Science Bootcamp

Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome is proud to present its full-immersion, residential Bootcamp in Cambridge (UK), bringing you a three-week course in the fields of IoT and Data Science.

Why does our Bootcamp provide a unique opportunity?

• 120-hour programme in a cutting-edge field
• A programme designed in collaboration with Cambridge University instructors, supervisors and trainers
• Industry partners 

What are the aims of the Bootcamp?

1. To introduce participants to foundations of IoT and to the main tools and methods of data science through lectures, seminars, group work and hands-on tutorials
2. To provide practical industry experience using real case-studies from our partner businesses through a week-long hackathon leading to an internship
3. To give core-skills training to develop communication and presentation skills, time and project management skills, collaboration and leadership skills

Topics

Week1:
IoT Platforms: an overview
Set up the board, configure and use it
Programming on IoT devices
Communicating with other devices through pins
Connecting to the Internet
Exchanging data
Interacting with online services via API
Interacting with sensors
Interacting with actuators

Week2:
An introduction on Data Analytics – what is machine learning?
Performance estimation and experiment design
Data wrangling
Exploratory data analysis – descriptive statistics and correlation
Linear regression
Logistic regression
k Nearest Neighbours
Support Vector Machines
Decision trees
Clustering
Feature selection
Time series analysis and forecasting

Week3:
Hackathon
Hackathon using industry real-life case-studies

Week 1,2,3:
Communication and presentation skills
Time and project management skills
Collaboration and leadership skills

Location

The Bootcamp will be hosted by Hughes Hall College, one of the 31 prestigious Colleges of the University of Cambridge (UK).
The college is centrally located and close to all amenities.
The Bootcamp will be a residential camp, which means that participants will live and study at Hughes Hall College for the duration of the camp in order to have a full-immersion experience.