News at MCDS

The Academic Speed Dating in the fall semester 2024 brought together around 25 participants for an inspiring afternoon of networking, learning and collaboration at Mannheim Palace on November 7. The event was the latest edition of the popular series, which has become an integral part of the research ...

On September 26, 2024, the Mannheim Center for Data Science (MCDS) participated in the Data Science Community Workshop: “Current Developments and Perspectives (at Universities) in the Field of Data Science” at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden. The workshop built on the ...

MCDS and the European University ENGAGE.EU jointly offer again a lecture series on the topic of “Data Science in Action” in fall semester 2024. Lectures will be held in English online via zoom every Thursday from 12 to 1.30 pm.

The newly introduced lecture series “MCDS Distinguished Lecture” began on April 9 with a lecture by Prof. Meeyoung Cha. She conducts research at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea and will be Scientific Director of ...

From April 5 to 7, the University of Mannheim hosted DataFest, a competition for students who want to demonstrate their skills in data analysis.

Over 30 participants came together at the Academic Speed Dating event in the spring semester 2024 to discuss this and other questions and find out about current research in this field at the University of Mannheim.

From April 5 to 7, 2024, the University of Mannheim will host a unique competition for one weekend: DataFest Germany invites students to compete in the processing of a previously unknown data set.

The second lecture series on the application areas of data science was included in the curriculum of the European university ENGAGE.EU as a “signature course”. This time, experts from Mannheim and researchers from the international partner universities took part in the lecture series, which was also ...

This semester, the MCDS Academic Speed Dating focused on the topics of Text Data and Large Language Models.