Specialist courses at the HHU

The Institute of Systems Neuroscience offers statistical consulting. This consultancy service is free of charge and primarily addressed to (doctoral) students at HHU starting their thesis or dissertation, but it is also open to other scientists at HHU and further institutions associated or cooperating with HHU.
Link to the Consultancy Service

In this 4-hour (in person or online) + self-study compact workshop, you will receive a basic introduction to the topics of AI and data science.

By the end of the workshop, you will

• be able to classify the significance of AI technologies,
• be able to explain basic terms and methods,
• be able to assess whether the use of AI is necessary/useful,
• be able to point out the limits of current AI technology,
• be able to describe the basic functionality of machine learning algorithms and in particular neural networks,
• be able to reflect on and discuss ethical and legal issues.

Contents: definition of artificial intelligence, what can already be done with AI and what are the limits, machine learning algorithms and neural networks, ethical and legal issues, practical examples, networking,

Dates and Registration

Directly at the Heine Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (HeiCAD)

In this 4-hour (online) compact workshop you will receive a basic introduction to programming with Python. Here, we focus on the topic of data science.

By the end of the workshop, you will

• be able to set up a Python programming environment,
• know and be able to use Python packages for data science,
• be able to read, manipulate and store different types of data such as tables, images and numerical data,
• be able to use different visualisation tools with Python,
• be able to handle machine learning packages such as scikit-learn.

Contents: Reading, cleaning, analysing and visualising data; machine learning.

Dates and Registration

Directly at the Heine Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (HeiCAD)