DELTA

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DELTA

Deep Learning for Text Analytics (DELTA) focuses on modern natural language processing using deep neural networks, building on prior knowledge in machine learning and Python. Students explore techniques such as word embeddings, RNNs, and Transformers, and apply them to real-world tasks like sentiment analysis and document classification. The course combines theory with hands-on programming using libraries like Keras and NLTK.

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Course Content

12 courselets

Requirements

  • Prior completion of the Business Analytics and Data Science module or equivalent knowledge in machine learning and solid Python programming skills are expected.

General Overview

Description

Data is the new oil... especially when it comes in the form of language.
 
From social media feeds and customer reviews to internal company
documents and chatbots—textual data is everywhere. Yet, making sense
of it at scale requires sophisticated tools that go well beyond
traditional analytics. This is where deep learning for natural
language processing (NLP) comes into play.
 
The module Deep Learning for Text Analytics (DELTA) is
designed for students who have already completed our Business
Analytics and Data Science (BADS) course or possess equivalent
knowledge. Building on foundational skills in applied machine learning
and Python programming, DELTA explores modern techniques for analyzing
and generating natural language using deep neural networks.
 
 
Topics covered in DELTA include but are not limited to:
- Fundamentals of artificial neural networks
- Fundamentals of natural language processing (NLP)
- NLP tasks and common use cases in business and society
- Early NLP methods: dictionaries, bag-of-words models
- Word embeddings and distributed representations
- Neural architectures for sequential and unstructured data
- Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and gated variants (e.g., LSTM, GRU)
- Language modeling with RNNs
- Attention mechanisms and the Transformer architecture
- Transfer learning in NLP (e.g., pre-trained language models)
 
A key focus of the module is to demystify how state-of-the-art deep
learning models—such as those behind GPT, BERT, or similar
technologies—are structured and trained. However, we don’t stop at
the technical side: students will also learn how these methods are
applied in real-world business contexts, such as customer sentiment
analysis, document classification, automated summarization, or
intelligent assistants.
 
The module consists of a lecture and a hands-on tutorial session. The
lecture introduces relevant theory and modern research perspectives in
NLP, while the tutorial empowers students to implement these ideas
using contemporary Python libraries such as Keras (for deep learning)
and NLTK (for NLP). Students will work on practical modeling tasks
using real text datasets and will receive coding demos to implement
and fine-tune advanced NLP models themselves.
 
In summary, the module pursues the following learning objectives:
- Students understand the structure and functioning of deep neural
  networks, particularly in the context of text data.
- Students are familiar with key NLP tasks and their business
  relevance.
- Students can apply modern neural architectures (e.g., RNNs,
  Transformers) to text processing problems.
- Students gain hands-on experience with key Python libraries for deep
  learning and NLP.
 
We look forward to accompanying you on this next step in your data
science journey—where language meets learning and models don’t just
see data, but understand it.
 
See you in DELTA.

 

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Meet the instructors !

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About the Instructor

Stefan received a PhD from the University of Hamburg in 2007, where he also completed his habilitation on decision analysis and support using ensemble forecasting models in 2012. He then joined the Humboldt-University of Berlin in 2014, where he heads the Chair of Information Systems at the School of Business and Economics. He serves as an associate editor for the International Journal of Business Analytics, Digital Finance, and the International Journal of Forecasting, and as department editor of Business and Information System Engineering (BISE). Stefan has secured substantial amounts of research funding and published several papers in leading international journals and conferences. His research concerns the support of managerial decision-making using quantitative empirical methods. He specializes in applications of (deep) machine learning techniques in the broad scope of marketing and risk analytics. Stefan actively participates in knowledge transfer and consulting projects with industry partners; from start-up companies to global players and not-for-profit organizations.