The Adeje Summer University has launched today, Tuesday, July 18th, a course focused on Big Data and data analysis. This event, which will run until Thursday the 20th, will allow attendees to learn about different tools and techniques that will enable them to extract knowledge from their own data, both personally and professionally. Christopher Expósito, Professor [Name], from the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering at the University of La Laguna, will be the director of these conferences, which will have the collaboration of the professor from the teaching center. Marcos Moreno and the expert Airam Expósito.
“This course aims to teach people from all walks of life about data analytics in a highly practical way,” Expósito explained at the event's launch. Using data from diverse sectors such as social media, healthcare, and even the service industry, students will delve into the real-world applications of Big Data, which, according to the expert, “is still in its early stages” before its widespread adoption in society.
Marcos Moreno, professor at the ULL, was one of the speakers at the Big Data course.
Understanding classification and clustering algorithms, designing dashboards, and reviewing success stories are some of the topics students attending this course will explore in the coming days. “Supermarkets are a perfect example for data analytics because, based on our understanding of what people buy, we can identify patterns,” the professor explained. “If a large supermarket has a tool that determines how often its customers buy, for example, milk and cookies together, the company can then offer promotions when it benefits them, place the two products near or far apart on the shelf, and so on.”.
Using everyday situations as a starting point, this course will help students understand how corporations use data to improve their performance and become more productive. This means that, based on stored information, techniques will be implemented depending on what is needed to obtain specific results. “If we're talking about social networks, the techniques are usually segmentation techniques; if we want to know if a patient has a high probability of having one disease or another, classification techniques are used,” emphasizes the course director at the Adeje Summer University.
“Everyone needs to have a basic understanding of this subject, especially since we generate data through our daily activities.” This training program will conclude by inviting students to reflect on the digital footprint that humans leave behind and how companies use it from a legal and even ethical perspective.
Sign language is successfully repeated at the UVA
One more year, the course for learn Spanish sign language, which is taught at the Adeje Summer University 2023 The seminar, which ran until Wednesday, July 19th, was fully booked. This seminar, which has been part of the program for the past five years (with a break during the COVID-19 pandemic), brought together more than twenty people interested in learning the basics of this language at the Adeje Cultural Center.
María del Carmen Rodríguez Jiménez, Professor [Name], from the Department of Didactics and Educational Research at the University of La Laguna and director of this course, has been teaching it throughout the archipelago for over twenty years. “This year, in addition to speech therapists and teachers, the course has been enriched with professionals from nursing, medicine, IT, gardening, and several students who have just finished their university entrance exams. I am pleased to see how the participants have diversified.”.
The attendees expressed their concern about not knowing how to communicate with deaf people, which was the reason for their participation in this training program. “Medical and nursing professionals had never bothered until now to learn how to communicate with a deaf person because they always used an interpreter. As a result of the pandemic, they realized how difficult it was to understand this community, so they wanted to learn sign language,” she emphasized. Furthermore, as in previous sessions, the participants requested an advanced course to be able to maintain a more fluent level of conversation.
The main objective of this 12-hour course is to learn what sign language is and its main characteristics. In the first session, participants learned the fingerspelling system in the air, that is, the different hand positions that represent each letter of the alphabet, for which a good visual and gestural memory is helpful. They also learned how to structure sentences and how to introduce themselves. By the end of the course, participants are expected to be able to hold a basic conversation with a deaf person and to develop certain manual and visual skills characteristic of this linguistic modality.
The course director emphasized the importance of raising awareness and understanding of sign language so that this community feels fully included in society. “Currently, several television platforms broadcast their films with sign language interpretation or subtitles for this community. And with the new LOMLOE education law, schools will be able to offer sign language as an elective subject,” she stated.
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