IT4BI FAQ

I quite often receive questions about the IT4BI program: my CV is on the program's website, and people see my email there and write me. Also, I get quite a lot of questions from social networks. I usually try my best to give answers to all of them, but many questions repeat again and again, so it's a good idea to create a FAQ and make the answers are available to everybody, so I don't have to repeat myself. A fairly large part of the questions are about the admission process, and I already addressed some of them in IT4BI: How To.

IT4BI: How To

In the post European Master Programs in Data Analysis I listed some Master programs that I myself applied to. There I also briefly outlined how to apply to them. In this post, I would like to give more details about the process of applying to the program of my choice: Erasmus Mundus IT4BI. This is mostly based on my experience and I would like to share this with you.

Additionally, I sometimes get questions by email about the program and quite a lot of them are about the process: documents, motivation letters, etc. In this post I will also address these questions, and spare myself the troubles of typing the same text over and over again :)

European Master Programs in Data Analysis

Some time ago, in 2012, I decided that I wanted to continue my education and get a Master's Degree. I wanted to get more involved into data analysis and related things like machine learning or data mining. Secondly, this had to be a program in Europe because I didn't want to travel too far - back then I lived in Poland. And lastly, I wanted to find a program with both tuition waivers and monthly allowances to cover living expenses.

I started actively looking for programs that met these criteria and now I would like to share my experience. In this blog post I list the most interesting programs (to me) and I include only ones that I myself applied to. I will not describe the programs/scholarships in details, but instead will refer to links with information. However I will add some things that I think are important: e.g. the process of applying, interesting details, etc.

IT4BI: Distributed and Large-Scale Business Intelligence

The first semester of the second year is devoted to specialization, and there are 3 possible choices in the IT4BI program. One of them is "Distributed and Large-Scale Business Intelligence" and it is delivered by the DIMA group at the Technical University of Berlin. It is the specialization of my choice, so I'm happy to share my experience about it in this post.

A Round-Trip to RDF

This is my first post in the blog and I would like to start off by sharing an application I developed as part of my studies at École Centrale Paris. Its name is RDF Usine and it is meant to convert plain text files (e.g. CSV) into RDF format.

I have published not only the executable library but also the complete source code.

IT4BI First Year: Business Intelligence Fundamentals

The first year of the IT4BI program is devoted to Business Intelligence fundamentals. There is plenty of information on the website of the program, including the course content page and the course description document. Even though these resources are comprehensive enough, I would still like to add a few details about the curriculum, so you can compare what is written on the website with the things we studied.