From July 24th to 28th, 2017, a summer school on ‘Automatic text processing and data analysis’ took place at HSE MIEM. Thirty undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students from HSE, MIPT, MSU, Bauman State University, St. Petersburg State University, and other universities from Helsinki, Kazan, Chelyabinsk, and Yaroslavl spent their days studying machine learning and data analysis and solving problems in teams.