The Cancer Heterogeneity data challenge is part of a program dedicated to innovation in education. The aim of this program is to provide (i) analytical frameworks to bridge the gap between large dataset and personalized medicine in disease treatments and (ii) innovative pedagogical methods to train students and health professionals to big data analysis in health science.

This school is about graph signal processing, in particular, development of signal processing tools for data structured as graphs. The graph consists in nodes corresponding to the studied variables and edges that link the nodes.

We are organizing a two-day Bayesian workshop in Grenoble in September 6-7, 2018. It will be the second edition of the Italian-French statistics seminar, titled this year: Bayesian learning theory for complex data modeling.

Vadim Strijov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) will talk about "Bayesian model selection and multimodelling". The event will take place on July, 14 at 11:00 am at Imag building.

Matteo Sesia (PhD Student, Stanford University) will talk about "Gene Hunting with Knockoffs for Hidden Markov Models". The event will take place on July, 10 at 11:00 am at Inria Montbonnot.

Gilles Bastin is a Professor of sociology at the School for Political Studies (Univ. Grenoble Alpes). He co-heads the Data Institute’s work package 4 on « Data Science, Social Media and Social Sciences ». The aim of this work package is to analyze social structures in innovative ways using data from social networks and new data science methods. It is typically the kind of interdisciplinary projects that the Data Institute is fostering.

The IGE is organizing a seminar about "Machine learning and numerical models in geoscience". It will take place on July 9th at 2pm at the IGE, Glaciologie building, on the campus of Grenoble.

The Data Club is opened to PhD candidates, master degree students and post-docs working in the data field. For this fifth session of the Data Club, Floran Privé will speak about "High-dimensional data: a different kind of big data". Drinks are served during the second part of the session.

We are looking for a junior research chair in Data Science for Life Sciences and Health starting in October 2018. The objective is to recruit an outstanding candidate motivated in developing or applying data science methodology and machine learning to Life Sciences and Health.

The "Distributed Data Masses" thematic school (MDD) comes from the community of researchers in databases. It aims to complete the annual national conference "Data Management - Principles, Technologies and Applications". This year thematic will be "Scalable Data Analytics".

Isadora Antoniano-Villalobos (Assistant professor, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy) will talk about "Bayesian estimation of probabilistic sensitivity measures for computer experiments". The event will take place on June, 14 at 2:00 pm at Imag building.

The tenth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about how to make your personal webpage with R. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

Theodore Christakis, Deputy Director of the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute, has been appointed as a member of the French Digital Council (CNNum) by an order published in the Official Journal of the French Republic on May 29.

Your research requires data analysis but you lack computing skills? Come and join us at Software Carpentry event in Grenoble (free and beginner friendly). This two-day hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools (Git/Bash/R/Python), data management, and task automation.

The Data Club is opened to PhD candidates, master degree students and post-docs working in the data field. For this third session of the Data Club, Marc Ohlmann will speak about "Graphical models and ecology: linking ecological theory to statistical models". Drinks are served during the second part of the session.

The first day will be about “Analyzing the information cycle during media events” and the second one about “Data Science: Disciplinary Dialogues and Infrastructures”. This seminar will take place on May 30 and 31 (Amphi E, IEP).

From a set of quantitative MRI images, Emmanuel Barbier’s (Grenoble Institute of Neurosciences) and Florence Forbes’ (Inria / Jean Kutzmann Laboratory) teams have succeeded in locating and diagnosing several types of brain tumors completely automatically. This new "machine learning" approach is a contribution to the development of radiology of the future.

The ninth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about Out of memory matrices. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

Due to strikes, the seminar is POSTPONED. Ronan Fablet (IMT Atlantique, Lab-STICC/TOMS) will give a talk on Learning & Ocean Big Data: data-driven modelling, analysis, and reconstruction of complex dynamical systems.

Simon Leglaive (Postdoc, Perception, Inria) will talk about "Student’s t Source and Mixing Models for Multichannel Audio Source Separation". The event will take place on May, 15 at 2:00 pm at Inria Monbonnot.

The 4th Franco-Japanese workshop on cybersecurity will be held from May 15th to 18th in Annecy. This workshop that will bring together some 80 experts and stakeholders from both private and public sector, aims at mapping the current situation of French and Japanese knowledge and strengths in order to promote collaborations between the two countries.

The Data Club is opened to PhD candidates, master degree students and post-docs working in the data field. For this third session of the Data Club, Katia Bouslimani and Ludovica Robustelli will speak about "Data protection challenges : placing technology in service of humanity". Drinks are served during the second part of the session.

The eighth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about Parallel computing. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

The purpose of this workshop is to allow researchers from different backgrounds to discuss the topic of random graphs and in particular an application on behavior on Twitter. It will take place on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 April.

Alisa Kirichenko (Postdoc, Machine Learning dept. of CWI, Amsterdam) will talk about "Function estimation on large graphs using Bayesian Laplacian regularization". The event will take place on April, 26 at 3:00 pm at Imag building.

The workshop "Transparency and opacity of information systems" will take place in Lyon on April 23. The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute is pleased to be involved in its organization.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute organized the workshop "Data Science in the Alps" on March 20, 2018. More than 90 persons attended the workshop that took place at the Stade des Alpes, Grenoble. We are looking forward for the 2019 session!

David Chavalarias will give a talk on Methods for the reconstruction of the socio-semantic dynamics of political activist Twitter networks. The event will take place on Monday April, 9th from 12:15 in Science Po Grenoble building, amphi F.

Hassen Fourati is a researcher in automation and robotics at the GIPSA-Lab laboratory (UMR of Grenoble Alpes University and CNRS). He obtained funding from the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute for his SPACE project "NanoSatellite Project: Advanced modeling and Control of AttitudE dynamics for quantum communication".

Marta Crispino and Fei Zheng (Both postdoc at Mistis) will present their PhD work. The event will take place on April, 3 at 2:00 pm at Inria Monbonnot.

The Data Club is opened to PhD candidates, master degree students and post-docs working in the data field. For this second session of the Data Club, Redouane Lguensat will speak about "Delving deep in the ocean with deep learning". Drinks are served during the second part of the session.

The French Society of Statistics and the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute organizes the conference « Artificial Intelligence: Which transparence? Which confidence? » on March 26, 2018 in Paris. This event is intended for a large audience.

The annual European Conference on Information Retrieval is the premier European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval.

Gilles Bastin and Sophie Kuegler from PACTE and the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute will give a talk on Methodological and ethical aspects of career data collection on LinkedIn : the case of journalists. The event will take place on Friday March, 23th from 12:00 to 14:00 in Imag building, seminar room n° 2.

Paul-Marie Grollemund from IMAG lab at the University of Montpellier will give a talk on "Bayesian linear regression on functional data". The event will take place on March, 22 at 2:00 pm at Imag building, room 106.

Grenoble Alpes Data Institute is pleased to organize the first “data science in the Alps” workshop. It will take place on March, 20th at the Stade des Alpes, salon sud-ouest.

Mr Jacques MARTINON, Head of the Mission against Cybercrime in the Directorate for Criminal Matters and Graces (DACG) of the Ministry of Justice, will give a conference on March 16 at the MSH-Alpes about “Going Dark, Going Cyber: Law Enforcement, Cybercriminality and Lawful Access to Data”.

The seventh working session of the Grenoble R community will be about Rcpp. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

The Demarre SHS research Program within the Data Institute has led a joint call with the MSH-Alpes for research projects in HSS data science and Digital Humanities Discover here the selected projects.

The Python group kick off will be held on March, 8 in Imag building.

Riccardo Corradin from Milan Biccoca & Trinity College Dublin will give a talk on "Bayesian nonparametric methods for density estimation and clustering on the phase-space". The event will take place on March, 1 at 2:00 pm at Imag building, room 106.

The Data Club is opened to PhD candidates, master degree students and post-docs working in the data field. For this first session of the Data Club, Carlos Gomez will talk about "Academic data science: conducting research at the interface of different disciplines". Drinks are served during the second part of the session.

The GREAT project (GREnoble Alps Together) of the Grenoble Metropolitan authority with the participation of the Data Institute of University Grenoble Alps has been selected among 117 projects in the context of call for interest of the future investment program of French government.

The sixth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about best coding practices. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

Eric Marchand from Université de Sherbrooke will give a talk on "Estimation with predictive densities: recent results". The event will take place on February, 8h at 2:00 pm at Imag building, room 106.

The CESICE, the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute, and la Maison Française d'Oxford are pleased to inform you of the holding of a workshop entitled "The invisible Man in the Digital Age: From Anonymity to Invisibilty ? " in Oxford on February 2, 2018

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the 7th seminar, we will welcome Merouane Debbah from Ecole Centrale Supélec.

The fifth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about RStudio and git. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

Lukasz Rajkowski from University of Warsaw will give a talk on "Analysis of Mode A Posteriori in the Chinese Restaurant Process model". The event will take place on January, 116h at 11:00 am at Inria Montbonnot room F107.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute organized a workshop on Intelligence Oversight the 14th November 2017. More than 100 persons attended to the workshop that took place at Inria, Montbonnot.

Nicolas Papernot from Pennsylvania State University, USA will give a tutorial on Security and Privacy in Machine Learning. The event will take place on Tuesday January, 9th from 9:30 to 11:30 in Amphi D of Ensimag building.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the 6th seminar, we will welcome Sylvain Gigan from Kastler Brossel Laboratory

Theodore Christakis has just published his legal study for CEIS and Microsoft in the so-called "Microsoft Ireland Warrant Case" between the US government and Microsoft in the United States Supreme Court.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the 5th seminar, we will welcome Romain Couillet from Ecole Centrale Supélec, Univerty Paris-Saclay.

The fourth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about Geographical Information Systems. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

Hongliang Lü from Inria will give a talk on "Nonparametric Bayesian Image Segmentation". The event will take place on Monday November, 11th at 11:30 am at Inria Montbonnot room F107.

Johan Montagnat from CNRS I3S Laboratory will give a talk on "Integration of heterogeneous data for the implementation of learning techniques". The event will take place on Thursday November, 30th at 11:30 am at GIN.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the fourth seminar, we will welcome Pierre Borgnat from ENS Lyon.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute launched a call for 2-years research projects about data science applications in Life Science and in Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences.The projects below were selected.

The third working session of the Grenoble R community will be about igraph. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

The Data Club Kick Off will be held on November, 22 at 5:30pm in Imag building. It is opened to PhD candidates, master degree students and post-docs who are interested in interacting with the private sectors. This discussion will take place around some food and beverages.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the third seminar, we will welcomeEustache Diemert from Criteo Research.

Julyan Arbel from Inria will give a talk on "Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC)". The event will take place on Wednesday November, 15th at 10:00 am at Inria Montbonnot room F107.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute is organizing a workshop on Intelligence Oversight the 14th November 2017 in INRIA, Montbonnot (Grenoble).

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the second seminar, we will welcome Sihem Amer-Yahia from CNRS LIG Grenoble.

The second working session of the Grenoble R community will be about ggplot2. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the first seminar, we will welcome Radu Horaud from INRIA Grenoble.

Pierre Borgnat from ENS Lyon will give a talk on “An invitation to Graph Signal Processing with Applications to Clustering”. The event will take place on Thursday 5 October at GIPSA-lab.

The first working session of the Grenoble R community will be an introduction to R. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

A novel method for co-clustering will be presented : an unsupervised learning approach that aims at discovering homogeneous groups of data instances and features by grouping them simultaneously.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute launches a call for 2-years research projects with applications of data sciences in Life Science or in Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences.

The aim of the summer school is to provide a comprehensive overview on software and statistical methods for detecting genes involved in local adaptation. Lectures and software demos will be given during the summer school.

The fifth edition of the conference « Colloque Francophone International sur l’Enseignement de la Statistique » will take place in Grenoble from 6 to 8 September 2017.

On Monday July 3 from 09:00 to 14:00, come and meet scientists with complementary research topics

This joint workshop will gather the short-listed authors of a coming special issue of the French Journal of Sociology / Revue française de sociologie (www.rfs-revue.com). The authors will be given the opportunity to have their paper discussed before the final selection by the journal this autumn.

From June 7 to 9, 30 researchers and students from all over Europe and from the USA contributed to the data challenge « Epigenetic & High-Dimension Mediation » in Aussois.

Progresses in high-throughput sequencing make it possible to study how epigenetic changes mediate the effect of environmental risk factors on diseases. Epigenetic changes are said to be mediators when they intervene in the causal pathway between environmental exposures and diseases.

The Grenoble R users’ group is a local community interested in sharing experience and knowledge about the R language.

Arnaud Legrand (LIG) will start the open seminar series by giving a talk about reproducible research. Although reproducibility is one of the main principles of the scientific method, it has been shown that a substantial proportion of published research is not reproducible leading to the scientific 'crisis' of reproducibility.

The Grenoble Alpes data Institute was officially launched on March 10th. The kick-off meeting attracted more that 200 participants.

Démarre SHS!”, a programme of the Data Institute Work Package 3 “Massive and Rich Data for Humanities” launches its first call for proposals.

On March 9, two Grenoble Alpes Data Institute training projects were selected within the first round of the IDEX training call amongst 65 proposals.