Elements of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Dear all,

due to the black ice warning that has been given out for Saarbrücken tomorrow morning, the lecture will take place online via zoom.

This saves you the risk of having to travel and the uncertainty whether busses will run.

We will meet on this link: https://cs-uni-saarland-de.zoom.us/j/8325214680 and start at 10:15 as usual.

Please observe the following rules: leave your camera on during the lecture, but switch your microphone off. If you have a question, just raise your virtual hand.

Best regards,

Vera Demberg

Please take some time to share your thoughts on the course.
There are separate evaluation for the lectures and tutorials.
The evaluation links are valid until the end of the month (31.1.2026)
We look forward to your feedback.

Lecture: https://qualis.uni-saarland.de/eva/?l=159937&p=odl8q4
Tutorial: https://qualis.uni-saarland.de/eva/?l=1599371&p=rwoy86
 

Please note that the rest of the assignments will be release on Thursday (instead of Monday) and due on Wednesday (instead of Sunday).
Since the solution will be discussed at the tutorial on Wednesday, the submission deadline will be set to 12:00 at noon on Wednesday (instead of 18:00)
Please make sure you submit the assignments on time. Late submissions will not be graded.

Assignment 7 will be released today.

The final exam of EDSAI will take place on 12.2.2026 from 10:00-11:30 am in Günter-Hotz-Hörsaal (E2 2)

In order to take the first written exam and earn credits, please register on the LSF (=HISPOS) or FlexNow, depending on your study program.
Registration is now open until 28.1.2026. (You are responsible to observe any other deadlines of your study program, if any)

If your program does not support registration on LSF (=HISPOS) nor FlexNow (e.g. Erasmus student or other subjects), please register on the CMS system.

To be admitted to the exam, you need to have at least 100 points from the assignments and have at most two assignment sheets with 0 points.

As evidence of your registration, please upload a screenshot of the registration in the assignment section.

 

Hi all, Due to the low attendance, we decided to merged all tutorials to the one on Wednesday (12:15 p.m.) and halt the office hour as well. The tutors will take turn to hold the tutorials on Wednesday. If you do want to discuss something with the tutors in person and cannot make it on Wednesday, please make use of the office hour on Tuesday but contacting your tutor in advance.

As announced in the last lecture, the lecture tomorrow has to be cancelled due to an emergency of Prof. Demberg.
That means the lecture will start again after the Christmas and new year break.

Assignment 6, which covers the materials until the last lecture, will still be released tomorrow as scheduled.
The due date of the assignment is 4 Jan 2026.

If you have difficulty following the lectures, you should come to the tutorials and/or office hour section.
In addition to explaining the assignment solutions (Note: they will not be uploaded elsewhere), the tutors can review the material and key concepts at a slower pace to support your understanding.
The attendance of the tutorials have been exceptionally low, so I would like to draw your attention to this opportunity.

There were a few cases of slightly late submission of Assignment 1, which we accepted exceptionally since you were still getting used to the CMS.
From Assignment 2 onwards, no exceptions will be made; only assignments that are submitted on time via the CMS will be graded. Please pay attention and submit before the deadline.

In addition, we would like to ask students who decided not to take this course to deregister for easier organization. Thank you.

As mentioned in the guest lecture yesterday: Douglas Leasure (https://www.demography.ox.ac.uk/people/douglas-leasure) from the University of Oxford will give a talk today, Friday, October 31 on his work on population mapping in Gaza.

The lecture will start at 1pm (sharp) in building E1.7, 3rd floor, room 3.23.

Feel free to join if you'd like to learn more about Doug's work in humanitarian contexts.

Hi all,

Please remember to form your assignment teams asap. The first graded assignment will be released next Monday and you should submit it in teams of 2-3 students. The deadline of teams grouping is 00:00 2.Nov, 18 hours before the first assignment deadline. Please make use of the forum to find team mates. It is not necessary to have members from the same tutorial.

On the other hand, if you do not plan to take the course for credits and submit all assignments, please do not join any teams..