Wikistat 2.0: Educational Resources for Artificial Intelligence
This work provides educational resources for training students in AI and data science, but it is incremental as it builds on existing curricula and tools.
The paper addresses the need to adapt university curricula to meet job market demands in AI and data science by describing the Data Science orientation at INSA Toulouse, which includes basic mathematics training and practical implementation of statistical learning algorithms using tutorials and a prediction contest.
Big data, data science, deep learning, artificial intelligence are the key words of intense hype related with a job market in full evolution, that impose to adapt the contents of our university professional trainings. Which artificial intelligence is mostly concerned by the job offers? Which methodologies and technologies should be favored in the training programs? Which objectives, tools and educational resources do we needed to put in place to meet these pressing needs? We answer these questions in describing the contents and operational resources in the Data Science orientation of the specialty Applied Mathematics at INSA Toulouse. We focus on basic mathematics training (Optimization, Probability, Statistics), associated with the practical implementation of the most performing statistical learning algorithms, with the most appropriate technologies and on real examples. Considering the huge volatility of the technologies, it is imperative to train students in seft-training, this will be their technological watch tool when they will be in professional activity. This explains the structuring of the educational site github.com/wikistat into a set of tutorials. Finally, to motivate the thorough practice of these tutorials, a serious game is organized each year in the form of a prediction contest between students of Master degrees in Applied Mathematics for IA.