DSAA’2018 (https://dsaa2018.isi.it) is proudly composed of a fabulous and rich program with strong technical and social activities, to be held on 1 – 4 Oct in Turin, Italy.

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Highlights:

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* 5 Keynote Speakers:

• Christopher Bishop (Microsoft Research)
• Francesca Dominici (Harvard University)
• Deirdre Mulligan (UC Berkeley)
• Claudia Perlich (NYU and TwoSigma)
• Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University)

* One full-day Industrial Forum with only keynotes and invited industrial speakers.

https://dsaa2018.isi.it/program/industrial-forum

* 5 thematic Special Sessions: (https://dsaa2018.isi.it/program/special-sessions)

• Data Science for Social Good
• Data Science in Computational Psychiatry and Psychiatric Research
• EnGeoData’2018: Environmental and Geo-spatial Data Analytics
• Opportunities and Risks for Data Science in Organizations: Banking, Finance, and Policy
• SeCredISData – Sentiment, Emotion, and Credibility of Information in Social Data

* Keynotes of the Special Sessions, including:

• Živko Krstić (Crossing technologies)
• Fionn Murtagh (University of Huddersfield)
• Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València)
• Marcel Salathé (EPFL)

* 7 Tutorials:

• Project Management for Data Science
• Deep Learning for Computer Vision: A practitioner’s viewpoint
• Data Science Workflows Using R and Spark
• Kernel Methods for Machine Learning and Data Science
• NDlib:  Modelling and Analyzing DiffusionProcesses over Complex Networks
• Reproducible research using lessons learnt from software development
• Data Sources and Techniques to Mine Human Mobility Patterns

* Data Science Contest (https://dsaa2018.isi.it/program/data-science-contest)

* Research and Applications tracks (https://dsaa2018.isi.it/calls/call-for-papers)