Even though the summer is nigh, we are hardly going to catch a summer break this year. Orange team is busy holding workshops around the world to present the latest widgets and data mining tools to the public. Last week we had a very successful tutorial at [BC]2 in Basel, Switzerland, where Marinka and Blaž presented data fusion. A part of the tutorial was a hands-on workshop with Orange’s new add-on for data fusion. Marinka also got an award for the poster, where data fusion was used to hunt for Dictyostelium bacterial-response genes. This week, we are in Pavia, Italy, also for Matrix Computations in Biomedical Informatics Workshop at AIME 2015, a Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. During the workshop, we are giving an invited talk on learning latent factor models by data fusion and we’ll also show Orange’s data fusion add-on. Thanks to the workshop organizers, Riccardo Bellazzi, Jimeng Sun and Ping Zhang, the workshop program looks great.

Blaž with Riccardo and John in Pavia, Italy