Elements of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Prof. Dr. Vera Demberg, Prof. Dr. Jens Dittrich, Prof. Dr. Jörg Hoffmann, Prof. Dr. Bernt Schiele Basic Lecture, 9 CP, Winter Semester 2019

Dear students,

in the lecture next monday, we will:

1. Give you the opportunity to ask questions about the exam.

2. Ask for your feedback how to improve future iterations of this course. We will hand out printed questionnaires, give you time to fill these in, and collect them when you leave.

Item 1, we presume, is very important to you. Please take this opportunity and prepare for what you would like to ask.

Item 2 is extremely important to us. Please think a bit and be prepared to give us constructive feedback.

Best regards,
Your lecturers

Dear students,

our upcoming exam will take place in E1.3 Lecture Hall 002 and E2.5 Lecture Hall 002 (math building) on February 6, 2020 from 12 - 2 PM.
The exam will start sharp at 12:00 and takes 120 minutes. Therefore, please be there a few minutes in advance so we can start and finish on time.
Here are some more informations regarding the exam:

• You are admitted to take the exam if you have at least 50% of the total points on the assignment sheets (concretely, at least 110 out of 220 points) and at most two assignments with zero points.
• In case you are admitted to take the exam, you have to register for it: 
  1. LSF/HISPOS: If you are a Data Sciene and Artificial Intelligence student, you cannot use the LSF/HISPOS system to register because the course is not yet integrated into the system. Therefore, you have to go Ms. Sum from the examination office and get a registration form which you hand in in Prof. Dittrichs secretary office (E1.1 Room 3.12). 
     For other courses of study (computer science, media informatics, cybersecurity) the registration via LSF/HISPOS is currently being activated. Therefore, the registration should be possible within a few days. 
     Students doing a teacher training program (Lehramt) in computer science need to clarify with the examination office, if they obtain credits for the examination (Prüfung einbringen können). We advise to get a registration form (Schein) from the examination office.
     In case there are any problems with the examination registration, please contact us as soon as possible. The time to register ends on January 30 (one week before the exam according to examination regulations) for both, online and manual registration. A registration after the deadline will not be possible and no exceptions will be made.
  2. Course Management System: Please register for the exam on your personal status page in our CMS system. This registration lets us know how many of you want to participate in the exam and with that, how to distribute you to the different lecture halls. The registration will end on February 4. On the following day, we will announce in which lecture hall you write the exam.
• You have to use a non-erasable pen with black or blue ink.
• The exam and the exercise descriptions will be in English. Therefore, we encourage you to write the exam in English. However, you are also allowed to write in German. You can bring a dictionary as well.
• You are allowed to bring two double-sided sheets of A4-paper containing handwritten notes as cheat sheets. This explicitly excludes printouts.
• A non-programmable calculator is allowed.
• Regarding the preparation for the exam, refer to the file relevant for exam.txt, which contains an overview of the relevant parts of each lecture. Furthermore, the exercises on the assignment sheets should give a very good impression of how the exam exercises might look like.
   

In case you have any questions, please use our forum.

Best regards,
Joris

Dear students,

for this weeks assignment and some of the upcoming lectures, you have to update your virtual machine. For this, follow these instructions:

• download the new Vagrantfile from our materials section
• copy the new Vagrantfile into your virtual machine folder (i.e. replace the old Vagrantfile with the new one)
• execute the following command: vagrant up --provision-with miniconda,python-packages
• note: the update might take some time

In case you have problems, please use the forum.

Best regards,
Joris

Dear students,

we just uploaded Assignment 1 in the materials sections. The assignment is a zip file consisting of a Jupyter Notebook and a Python file containing the unit tests. You have to move both files into your virtual machine to work on the assignment. In addition, please consider the following points:

• Upload your solutions to the CMS under your personal status page in groups of three students until November 7, 2019 12:00 noon. You can upload your solutions as often as needed. Only the last submission counts.
• Make sure that your submission contains the names and matriculation numbers of all team members.
• Exactly one team member should upload the solution.
• Your submission should only contain the Jupyter Notebook assignment01.ipynb
• Late submissions will not be graded.

Use our forum to discuss the exercises, ask questions, and help your fellow students. However, sharing complete solutions is not allowed.
 

Best regards,
Joris

Dear students,

next week on Monday, 28 October 2019, and on Thursday, 31 October 2019, we will have the introductory lectures for Python. The lectures will contain a hands-on part, where you can try out the principles and and techniques shown to you.
In order to participate, please bring your laptop to the lectures and make sure that the systems (VirtualBox, Vagrant) are working.

Note: The lecture hall E1 3, 002 only contains a limited number of power supply socket at the sides. Therefore, make sure to charge your laptop in advance.

Best regards,
Joris

Dear students,

please bring your laptop to your tutorial to be able to work on assignment sheet 0. The assignment sheet deals with the installation and usage of Vagrant, Virtualbox, and Jupyter Notebook. Since this setup requires a stable Internet connection and takes some time, we recommend to do this setup beforehand. A guide on how to setup the systems can be found on our instructions page.

Best,
Joris

Dear students,

we just assigned you to your tutorials. You can check your tutorial slot on the personal status page.

Furthermore, the very first assignment sheet will be released today, at 12:00 noon. This assignment sheet covers the installation and usage of the systems we will use throughout the lecture. 

The first tutorials will be held this week already. They are intended to get acquainted with your tutor and your fellow students. In addition, you can start working on the first assignment. The location of all tutorials is the seminar room 3.06 in building E1 1. 

Best,
Joris