The Data Science Institute at Bar-Ilan University

SparkBeyond is an Israeli startup changing the paradigm of how we do data science. Our ideation machine is the best colleague to collaborate with as you explore your data, discover the most effective features to engineer, and optimize your model.

As part of our efforts to improve the onboarding experience of new users (data scientists), we are performing a series of user tests on our system and educational resources. We would be very happy if you could help us with our effort by giving us feedback.
If you are a trained data scientist we invite you to spend 2 hours with our platform & earn $50 

This will take about 2 hours of your time: 

• 75-90 minutes of self-onboarding, using educational videos, and on-screen guidance. 
• 30 mins of interview, in which we will discuss your experience with the system and the resources.  

Few important things to note:

• We are by no means testing your personal or professional abilities. Quite the opposite — we are testing and evaluating our own system, design, and resources. 
• This two-hour session can be done either remotely (online), or face-to-face in our Netanya office — whatever you prefer.

If you are interested, please contact us and we will take it from there 🙂

Thank you for your time,

The SparkBeyond Team

Congratulation to Mr. Ofir Shtegmann for winning biu rector phd-student excellence award for academic year 2019-2020.

Ofir’s work under the supervision of Prof. Oren Perez (Law) and Prof. Reuven Cohen (Math) applies network science and graph analysis in the law domain and constitutes a great example of collaboration of DSI members and the strong collaboration of the Data Science Institute with the Law Department.

בדרך לתפקיד ה-Data scientist: תואר שני כן או לא?

Just completed a very successful online networks course with over 200 students participating from around the world:

About the Course

In photo, you can see Israel Prize winner Prof. Shlomo Havlin lecturing on spread of Corona (COVID-19) and Influenza in Italy.

NVIDIA

NVIDIA Gives COVID-19 Researchers Free Access to Parabricks

NSF – BSF

proposals to conduct non-medical, non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to better understand how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19

ISF 

Deadline – March 31

https://www.isf.org.il/Files/Announcement/Guidelines_Kill%20Corona.pdf

The Data Science Institute at Bar-Ilan University

Deadline – March 29

Call for research projects to help with the corona crisis

Ministry of Science and Technology

Deadline –  March 28

https://www.gov.il/he/departments/news/most_news20200322

The Israel Innovation Authority

Deadline – 26/03/2020

https://innovationisrael.org.il/kol-kore/4879

Dangoor Centre For Personalized Medicine, Bar-Ilan University

Deadline – March 25

http://dsi.biu.ac.il/dnagur-corona-cfp

Covid-19 Twitter chatter dataset for scientific use

Dataset of 40+ million tweets of COVID19 chatter

See – http://www.panacealab.org/covid19/

We are looking for a lecturer to teach a course on “Big Data Processing and Analysis”.
The course is intended for STEM students (Chemistry, Physics, Life Sciences, Geography and Environment, Math, Engineering) providing them with theory, techniques and tools to deal with very large amounts of data.

Course will be taught at Bar-Ilan University during fall 2020 (semester I of 2020-2021 academic year).

Following is a draft syllabus – סילבוס קורס ניתוח ועיבוד נתוני עתק – טיוטא (to be updated and finalized by lecturer).

If interested, please send email to dsi@biu.ac.il

 

AI2 released a large dataset of ~29k coronavirus related research papers, in a somewhat-convenient-to-process json format. The data is hosted on Kaggle, with an accompanying list of research questions (provided by the white house and NIH) including information they want to get extracted out of the data.
These are the questions:https://www.kaggle.com/allen-institute-for-ai/CORD-19-research-challenge/tasks

This can be an interesting opportunity for some relevant and hands-on NLP work, especially those of you who already are into relation extraction / health / biomed. Any approach goes, clustering, ML, sci-BERT, hand-built heuristics… happy to brainstorm about this.
Moreover, some of you may remember that i briefly presented a tool that allows querying of syntax-based patterns over wikipedia data. We (at AI2 Israel) indexed this coronavirus corpus with the tool, to allow syntactic queries over it. This can also be an interesting avenue for exploring the data. While the tool is not yet ready for public release, and is a bit rough around the edges, I will be happy to share it with the lab if there is interest. If anyone wants, I will present the tool to you again in a zoom meeting tomorrow (if there is interest, probably around 15:00, email me if interested).
Following are two papers that we submitted to the ACL demo track: one of them describing the search tool (reading sections 6 and 7), and another about Aryeh’s work (joint with Reut) on BART: an extended syntactic representation that exposes many relation-extraction related relations in a more unified way (it is relevant, as the tool is indexing syntactic graphs after Aryeh’s enhancements. + it is also a really cool paper, imo).

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SyntacticSearchACL2020Demo-5

The Bar-Ilan Data Science Institute has initiated a call for research grants that aim to help with the challenges the world is facing due to the corona virus (COVID-19) outbreak.

This is a short cycle call for grants proposals of up to 50K NIS. Deadline: March 29, 2020.

Please see call for full details:

2020 DSI Corona grants CFP