Summer Programme – AI Business

Languages : English
Campus : Rennes

Earn a certificate in AI Business and take credit-awarding modules.

Mission

Earn a certificate in AI Business and take credit-awarding modules

  • Develop basic to advanced skills in Python tools for data science in business.
  • Apply machine learning and deep learning to business data analysis.
  • Create business intelligence through application and visualisation.
  • Learn from automated analysis of texts and networks.
  • Develop AI business projects to showcase your skills to future employers.
  • Build a deeper understanding of complex environments and how to derive an advantage from them.

The programme is based on four AI business courses:

  • Data Science for Business
  • Business Intelligence
  • Business Textual Learning
  • Business Network Intelligence

Admission

Assessment method:

  • Assessment through a group project developed within the class, and daily assessment sheets.

Credits

  • Each module of the Summer Programme in AI Business is worth 3 ECTS

Pre-requisites

  • Successful completion of at least one year of undergraduate-level studies
  • Strong command of spoken and written English

Included in the programme:

  • 27 hours of classroom teaching per course
  • All teaching material

 

Programme

The programme is based on four AI business courses:

Data Science for Business

Python is an important tool in our quest to describe and analyse data. In order to be able to present findings in a way that non-specialists can understand, we need to be able to import, create and visualise data. There are numerous business applications where data are a necessary and vital part of the process. This course aims to introduce students to the basic tools and statistics for business using python. The course is designed for students who do not necessarily have a strong programming or/and statistical background. The concepts introduced in this course can be applied to various topics in business, such as business analytics, finance and financial markets, corporate concepts, business networks and more.

TOPICS COVERED

This course includes the following main topics:

  • Variables and lists in python
  • Important python packages for business data such as pandas
  • Importing different types of datasets from different sources.
  • Understanding your data and dealing with data issues such as missing values
  • Data cleaning and data reshaping
  • Describing the data and their important characteristics
  • Data visualisation
  • Basic statistics using python (different variables and distributions, basic descriptive statistics, frequencies, etc.)

AI Business Intelligence

This course will provide you with knowledge of statistics and methods needed for data analysis that can be applied to business problems and to large datasets.

You will learn how to model real-world applications using statistical methods through a mix of theory, exercises, and case studies. By leveraging python libraries for data analysis and visualisation, you will gain exposure to tools used in data analysis and visualisation that constitute the backbone of the statistical analysis you may need in developing your future projects.

TOPICS COVERED:

  • Data types and models for analysis
  • Data visualisation and hypothesis testing
  • Regression analysis
  • Models for discrete variables
  • Cluster Analysis

Business Textual Learning

Textual data has grown dramatically in recent years, including news articles, scientific literature, emails, corporate documents, and social media such as blog posts, forum posts, product reviews, and tweets. People need tools to analyse and manage large amounts of textual data effectively and efficiently. Textual data is often directly generated by humans and accompanied by semantically rich content. Current natural language processing techniques have not yet reached the point where computers can precisely understand natural language text, but over the past few decades, a wide range of statistical and heuristic methods have been developed to mine and analyse textual data. They are generally very robust and can be used to analyse and manage textual data in any natural language and on any topic.

This course will introduce learners to the basics of text mining and text manipulation. Includes applications for mining word associations, mining and analyzing topics in text, clustering and classifying textual data, opinion mining and sentiment analysis, topic mining & analysis and application for text mining in business. You will learn the most useful basic concepts, principles and techniques in text mining and analysis, which can be used to build a wide range of text mining and analysis applications.

TOPICS COVERED:

  • Data preparation for Text Mining
  • Word association mining & analysis
  • Opinion mining & sentiment analysis
  • Topic mining & analysis
  • Application of Text mining in business

Business Network Intelligence

Networks represent the pattern of complex interactions and interdependence among entities and have a wide range of applications including business. To illustrate, the diffusion of goods and services does not only depend on consumers’ own attributes, but also on how consumers interact with and influence each other. As another example, one may consider how financial or input-output relations among organisations can lead to the spread and propagation of shocks in the economy.

Therefore, the aim of this module is to help students understand how networks can inform business decisions and gain basic skills to analyse and interpret network data. To this aim, the module brings together statistical, mathematical, and conceptual foundations of networks, business problems, and applied data analysis.

TOPICS COVERED:

  • Introduction to Networks and Business Applications of Networks
  • Network Representations
  • Micro and Macro Network Measures
  • Sub-network
  • Diffusion in Networks
  • Time Aware Network analysis

Calendar

Registration deadline: 1 March 2024

  • Data Science for Business: Monday 13 – Friday 17 May 2024
  • AI Business Intelligence: Tuesday 21 – Saturday 25 May 2024 (Monday 20 May: bank holiday)
  • Business Textual Learning: Monday 27 May – Friday 31 June 2024
  • Business Network Intelligence: Monday 3 – Friday 7 June 2024

Fees

Fees for spring 2024:

  • between €1250 and €3500 depending on the number of classes
“So, are you convinced?”
Do you have any questions about whether you are eligible to apply? Contact your admissions advisor
Laura Meunier