New horizons via Data Science
Students and companies dealt with new possibilities with "Data Science" in the context of the Vier-Ländereck Data Science Meetup. Students of the Master's program Information Systems at the University of Liechtenstein successfully presented their projects with successful start-ups.
Dr. Stefan Debortoli, lecturer of the project seminar "Data Science" and former research assistant of the Hilti Chair for Business Process Management under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke, was enthusiastic about the students' work: "This seminar offers our students the unique opportunity to apply their knowledge of "Data Science" by means of practical projects and real problems in companies.
Data Science in practice
18 students from the "Data Science" major worked closely with the companies Rawr, Senseforce, Reachbird and Avira for one semester. The task of the groups, each consisting of four students, was to solve relevant, real and specific business problems using their knowledge and skills from the field of "Data Science".
In cooperation with the start-up Reachbird, co-founded by supervisor Dr. Stefan Debortoli, a fully automated platform for the referral of social media influencers to brands, the future data scientists analyzed over 500,000 social media posts to find out which characteristics of a social media post lead to a higher customer interaction rate (like or comment).
With the German company Avira, one of the leading antivirus and security software manufacturers, the students used the analysis of gigabytes of error reports to try to find out how customers react in the event of an error, for example, which errors typically lead to an uninstallation and thus to a lost customer.
At Senseforce, a company that provides analytics for Industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT), a team examined gigabytes of machine-generated data from mobile harbor cranes to identify potential failures early on.
Study course in demand
The Information Systems program and the Institute of Information Systems at the University of Liechtenstein have received several awards, in particular when students won the international Accenture Campus Innovation Challenge, the SAP Inno- and DemoJam at the world's largest SAP conference TechEd, or the AIS (Association for Information Systems) Award for Innovation in Teaching by Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke.
Since 2015, there have been two specializations to choose from, one in Business Process Management and one in Data Science. The students and graduates are in high demand as important specialists in the region and are best prepared for their future in an internationally networked, digital world through the English-language Master's program.
You can find out more about the Data Science training or about the Master of Science in Information Systems (MSc) under this Link
