-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Reminder: GGS Seminars on: "An Introduction to Big Data Analytics", June 22nd – 23rd, 2016 in Heilbronn, Germany Datum: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 14:17:51 +0000 Von: GGS Researchmethods researchmethods@ggs.de Antwort an: GGS Researchmethods researchmethods@ggs.de

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*GGS Seminars on: An Introduction to Big Data Analytics, June 22nd – 23rd, 2016 in Heilbronn, Germany*

Dear colleagues,

The German Graduate School of Management and Law (GGS) organizes a series of seminars for doctoral students and post-docs with an interest in research methodology. This course *An Introduction to Big Data Analytics* http://www.ggs.de/methodswill help students learn basics of Big Data analytics and inspire thinking about how it can be applied to their own research. The workshop has three modules to cover; an introduction of Big Data analytics, three major Big Data analytics areas (decision tree and association rules, clustering analysis, and text analytics), and a reflection on research issues of Big Data analytics. Each module will have a lecture and exercises, case studies, and labs. R (and RStudio) will be used as the analytical tool.

*Instructor *

Heshan Sun is an associate professor of the Management Department at Clemson University. Heshan received his Ph.D. degree in Information Science and Technology (with the Doctoral Prize) from Syracuse University in 2007. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Information Science from Peking University, and a Bachelor Degree in International Economy / Trade from the School of International Business at Nankai University. His research interests include human-computer interaction, post-adoptive system use, trust and e-commerce, and business analytics. His research has been published (or will appear) in leading journals such as MIS Quarterly (4 papers), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (3 papers), and the proceedings of numerous conferences. Heshan is an Associate Editor of MIS Quarterly. He won the Reviewer of the Year (2011) Award from MIS Quarterly. In addition, he has received or has been nominated for several best paper awards and best reviewer awards. He is ranked 18th worldwide in 2011-2013 on the “Top-100 Rankings of Researchers” list that is based on the six prestigious information systems journals. Previously, he has also been recognized in a bibliometric study as one of the top HCI researchers worldwide for the period of 2003-2008 (ranked 9th and 18th on two lists).

*Registration *

The *course will be held from June 22nd – 23rd, 2016****at the German Graduate School of Management and Law (GGS) in Heilbronn, Germany*. Interested candidates are asked to send their application including a short letter of motivation (max. one page) no later than *June 15th, 2016 *to researchmethods@ggs.de mailto:researchmethods@ggs.de. Candidates will be informed of the decision regarding their acceptance within 24 hours. The number of participants is limited to 20 students. The course fee of 300 Euros includes registration, tuition, coffee breaks and drinks as well as lunch. Cancellations after registration are only partly refundable.

Best regards,

Andreas Eckhardt

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