ERASMUS IP project
Nr. 2013-1-LV1-ERA10-05534
Data Science for Business and Government
DaSBuG 2014
SBF (BA School of Business and Finance)
26th November, 2013
Room 601
Jānis Hermanis
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Partners (Old)
• Latvia
– Riga. Banku augstskola. BA School of Business and Finance (SBF) –
www.ba.lv
• Lithuania
– Vilnius. Vilniaus kolegija. University of Applied Sciences - www.viko.lt
• Belgium
– Mechelen. Thomas More Mechelen - www.thomasmore.be
– Namur. Haute Ecole de Namur – Liège – Luxembourg. University
College of Namur – Liege – Luxembourg - www.henallux.be
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Partners (Old)
• Portugal
– Porto. Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique - www.upt.pt
• Finland
– Helsinki. Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu. Helsinki Metropolia
University of Applied Sciences - www.metropolia.fi
• Netherland
– Eindhoven. Fontys Hogescholen - www.fontys.edu
• Denmark
– Allborg. University College Professionshøjskole Nordjylland. University
College of Northern Denmark www.ucnorth.dk
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Partners (New)
• Greece
– Kavala. ΤΕΧΝΟΛΟΓΙΚΟ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΤΙΚΟ ΙΔΡΥΜΑ
(ΤΕΙ) ΚΑΒΑΛΑΣ. TECHNOLOGIKO EKPAIDEYTIKO
IDRYMA TEI KAVALAS – KAVALA INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY - www.teikav.edu.gr
• Poland
– Bydgoszczy. Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki w
Bydgoszczy. University of Economy in Bydgoszcz www.wsg.byd.pl
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This year IP topic
• Data Science
• Data Scientist
– The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
– Person who is better at statistics than any software
engineer and better at software engineering than any
statistician
• Keywords
– Data, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics,
Statistics, Predictive Analytic, Visualization, Results as
Solutions for Problems, Startup, Hackathon, Teamwork,
Experience, Two Intensive Weeks, …
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Practical and organizational things
• Project dates
– From Sunday, March 30th (arriving day)
– Till Saturday, April 12th (departure day)
• Where?
– Here, Riga, Latvia, BA School of Business and
Finance (SBF)
• Closest airport 
– Riga International Airport (RIX)
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About project budget
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Total budged is 63 985.80 EUR
Administrative part of budget - 5330 EUR
Travel part - 32 300 EUR
Accommodations/Subsistence - 26 355.80 EUR
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Number of Students and Teachers
• 50 students = 5 from Riga and 45 (5 x 9) from
others
• Max 2 teachers from each school. One to first
week, other to second week.
– Ideal situation, if teacher stay here whole two
week
– If you are two, then please stay here whole week
and change each other in weekend
(Saturday/Sunday) – it’s my wish
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Travel budget
• Project will pay 100% of your travel costs, if
you are in the limit (depends of country)
• Travel cost include whole way from
participators home to hotel in Riga and back
– Train, bus, public transport tickets (in home, in
Riga)
– Taxi (in home, in Riga)
– Airplane, bus (Vilnius perhaps) recipe
– Ferry..
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Travel budget - procedure
1. You, your school pay for yours teachers and
students
2. You collect all recipes, bills, others documents
3. You fill Travel Expense Claim – I show you this form
4. Your school send to us (SBF) filled un signed Travel
Expense Claim and copies of all supporting
documents
5. Then based on this documents SBF will transfer
money to your school bank account
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Travel budget – limits per one
person
From
Lithuania
Belgium
Portugal
Finland
Netherland
Greece
Denmark
Poland
Max travel cost/one person.
From home to Riga (hotel) and
back to home. In EUR
250
500
600
400
500
1000
500
400
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Travel budget – supporting
documents
• Boarding passes
• All tickets (taxi, public transport, airplane) with cost
amount and price. For example 5 persons by 10 EUR,
total 50 EUR
• Lending agreement between you and your
institutions if you are using your own car and:
– signed order from Head of school to use your car with
included info about vehicle and fuel rule
– Fuel bill
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Travel budget - important
• If your school buy airplanes tickets for all of you, if
you buy tickets from travel agency, if you make some
contracts between your school and travel company,
please include in all of this documents IP project
number
• Nr. 2013-1-LV1-ERA10-05534
• If you buy tickets by yourself – this not a problem,
also for train, bus, taxi tickets
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Travel budget…
• Doesn't include travel insurance and denial of
transaction costs
• Questions?
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Subsistence budget
• Without problems 
• You will just arrive to your hotel, both
teachers and students
• Breakfast will be in your hotels each morning
in your stay period here
• Lunch will be served each working day
• Other costs from your own money
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Leisure-time activities
• We will arrange something:
– European aperitif
– On the Saturday. We have several ideas, but this
is in progress and depends of budget
– One evening nightclub, club organized by BASP
(SBF students council)
– Riga explorer evening
– Others evenings?????!??!???!??????!!!!!
– Farewell dinner
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Students selections
• Goals is perfect ratio between Business and
ICT students will be 2:3; ~20 to ~30 students;
4 to 6 HEI
• Is this real? Who is who? Our situation!
Calculations? Suggestions! Options!
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Students selections - profile
• Ideal situation: second or third study year
bachelor student from
– More business oriented study programs
– More ICT oriented study programs
• Not only men 
• Responsible persons
• …
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Students selections - deadline
• Till 15.02.2014 I need from you filled statistics
form with students name and other info
• Same date 15.02.2014 – info about teachers,
who, how log will stay and statistics info in the
form
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Students selections – contract
between your school and student
• It is up to you…
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Working day lunch
• By 95% sure – SBF Canteen
• All 10 working days
• Lunch time from 13:00 – 14:30. Not to long?
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Hotels
• According to Latvian law, we must make the
procurement procedure and winner is lowest price
vendor
• It is in the process…
• I hope hotels for teachers will be Alber Hotel or PK
Riga Hotel, but…
• For students:
– Hotel or Hostel
– Idea is accommodation max 15 min away from SBF. That
mean: we don't need local transport tickets. What you
think?
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Everyday transport solutions
• If students live 15 min away from SBF, they
don’t need transport
• For teachers?! 20 rides ticket cost 9 LVL or
more from the next year. I'm not sure about
including this in budget, but…
• Anyway from next year one ride ticket will be
cost 1.20 EUR
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Cultural, social, evenings activities
(no official)
• Depends of what will happens in Riga
• Anyway we will inform about interesting
activities or events
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IP Case – in progress (~80%)
• Transport, roads, speed, drivers
disciplines, accidents problems in Latvia
• Data offers:
– Latvian State Roads http://lvceli.lv/eng/ (it is confirmed) – online
traffic data from Latvia roads http://www.lvceli.lv/traffic/
– Road Traffic Safety Directorate http://www.csdd.lv/eng - accidents
statistics are in the public offer
http://www.csdd.lv/lat/noderiga_informacija/statistika/
– Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology
http://www.meteo.lv/en/ - historical weather data from here (public
data) http://www.meteo.lv/meteorologija-datu-pieejamiba/?nid=462
– Waze. Data from community-based traffic and navigation app. We are
in the progress to understanding how to collect this data
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IP Case – Data Offers
1. Latvian State Roads http://lvceli.lv/eng/ (it is confirmed) –
online traffic data from Latvia roads
http://www.lvceli.lv/traffic/
2. Road Traffic Safety Directorate http://www.csdd.lv/eng accidents statistics are in the public offer
http://www.csdd.lv/lat/noderiga_informacija/statistika/
3. Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology
http://www.meteo.lv/en/ - historical weather data from
here (public data) http://www.meteo.lv/meteorologija-datupieejamiba/?nid=462
4. Waze. Data from community-based traffic and navigation
app. We are in the progress to understanding how to collect
this data
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IP Case – main goal
• Building a predictive model for understanding
what will be happens un Latvia roads if,
something happened (snow, traffic jam,
accident,...)
• Understand, which factor reduce accidents on
the roads, killed people,...
• ...
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IP Case – final product/deliverable
• Model, which can be seen as:
–Web page
–App
–Chart
–Excel sheet
–...????!!?!
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Concept, Guidelines, CRISP-DM
Cross
Industry
Standard
Process
for Data
Mining.
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Planed IP Activities
• That, what was wrote in project proposal are here
http://dasbug2014.com/project-info/shedule/
• Actually we can’t made lots of changes here,
because Agency, maybe, will check what is happened

• But of course we can include in the necessary
content in our lectures
• Your suggestions!!!!
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Who will explain what?
Responsibilities...
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Case
Data
Lectures
Monitoring team work
Presentations of results
....
• Suggestions!!!!!!
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Software????!!!!
• We have and we will:
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MS Office
SPSS Statistics
SPSS Modeler
Databases.... MS SQL???
Some Online tools
• What we need more:
– Your Suggestions (I prefer online tools or maybe
OpenSource or with reasonable trial period)
• Students have own tools!!!!!!!
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Web and Social activities
• Project web page – http://dasbug2014.com
• Facebook group – ... Will be created
• Twitter account – http://twitter.com/dasbug2014
(not yet)
• Moodle (no problems)
• Flickr? – we need?
• Instagramm,...
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Rooms for lecturing and practical
work
• Left side from 5th floor will be for us. Included
computer room (501) with 34 places, two
rooms for teamworks (502 and 503). For
lecturing conference hall or room 102,
depends of load
• Library
• Canteen
• Street
• …………………………………………………………………..
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Contracts between SBF and IP
partners
• Not yet ready, but we will send to you ASAP contract
project
• If is OK, then signature and stamp from your head
office and send back
• Perhaps during the IP you receive signed copy form
us, but maybe we will send back earlier
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Discussion about the next
academically year projects
• Dr. Sandra Kraže will introduce us with latest
news in ERASMUS+ area
• She is smart 
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That is all
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EURO
• From 01.01.2014 Latvia will join to Eurozone
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