Building on the inaugural 2016, 2017, and 2018 editions, the 2019 edition has started. This edition will be held from May 20-23, 2019 in Ames, Iowa. The 2019 edition is sponsored by the Midwest Big Data Hub, the ISU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Syngenta, Corteva, the ISU Department of Computer Science and Statistics, and the ISU Data Science program.

Like previous editions, the summer school consists of a series of tutorials on the beginning and intermediate Data Science topics. The majority of these tutorials include hands-on activities.

The summer school also features the following invited speakers and more.

• Rajesh Parekh, Engineering Director, Google
• Julia Wolfe, Visual journalist, FiveThirtyEight
• Thomas Zimmermann, Researcher, Microsoft Research
• Srinivas Sridharan, Data Scientist, Corteva
• Adam Hecktman, Director of Technology & Civic Innovation Chicago, Microsoft

This year, the summer school includes six parallel tracks that dig deeper into:

• Foundations of data science
• Big Data applications
• Data Science in Digital agriculture
• Software Analytics
• Data Science for Public Good
• Past, Present, and Future of SAS

An overview of the program this year can be found here.