Meetup January 29th 2015 Brussels Data Science Community
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FIRST MEETUP IN 2015
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Our mission is
to educate, inspire, empower
scholars and professionals
to apply data sciences
to address humanity’s grand
challenges.
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CHALLENGES
1. ACADEMIC TRAINING IS NOT ENOUGH
2. BUSINESS DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF ANALYTICS
3. DATASCIENCE IS TEAMWORK: NO IDEA ON HOW TO BUILD SUCH A TEAM
4. NO DATA TO WORK ON
5. NO TRAINING AVAILABLE FOR LATEST TECHNOLOGY
6. COMPANIES WANT TO HAVE A CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
7. COMPANIES CANNOT FIND THE RIGHT DATA SCIENTISTS
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SOME FIGURES - 2015
• 6000 HITS BLOGSITE IN JANUARY
• 700 MEETUP MEMBERS
• 555 LINKEDIN MEMBERS
• 175 FACEBOOK LIKES
• BUSINESS MEETS IT KEYNOTE
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• TOP 50 BLOGS TO READ – LIST FROM NG DATA
• +200 PAGES OF OUR BLOGSITE VISITED EACH DAY
• +10 JOBS POSTED
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DATA4GOOD COMPETITION
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Ward Vanden Berghe
More info
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SOME FIGURES - 2015
• 6000 HITS BLOGSITE IN JANUARY
• 700 MEETUP MEMBERS
• 555 LINKEDIN MEMBERS
• 175 FACEBOOK LIKES
• BUSINESS MEETS IT KEYNOTE
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• TOP 50 BLOGS TO READ – LIST FROM NG DATA
• +200 PAGES OF OUR BLOGSITE VISITED EACH DAY
• +10 JOBS POSTED
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LET’S TRAIN TOGETHER
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Coursera and Johns Hopkins University starts a full Data Science training. Why don’t we build a teal and do this together.
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NEW JOBS IN JANUARYHTTP://DATASCIENCEBE.COM/DATAJOBS/
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More info
DATA INNOVATION SUMMIT
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• Agenda
• Call for presentations
• Call for sponsors
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AGENDA – JANUARY 29TH
UPDATE ON THE COMMUNITY – PHILIPPE
UPDATE DATA4GOOD COMPETITION HOSTED BY KAGGLE -WARD
PRESENTATIONS: BRIEF INTRO TO THE THEME OF THE NIGHT -WARD
• BEN CALJON AND DIDIER CROES (UZ VUB):
NEW GENERATION SEQUENCING
• DANIELE MARINAZZO (UGENT):
MAKING SENSE OF THE BLOBS: CHALLENGES AND METHODS IN THE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF FMRI DATA
• MIHA PELKO (UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH):
LEARNING ABOUT NEURONS AND SYNAPSES USING THE PYTHON ECOSYSTEM
• WOLFGANG JACQUET (VUB):
THE USE OF TRADITIONAL STATISTICS IN THE PRESENCE OF "HUGE" DATA
NETWORKING - KULTUURKAFFEE
PS: THERE IS A CALL FOR SPEAKERS OUT FOR OUR DATA INNOVATION SUMMIT, PLEASE SHARE IT WITH YOUR NETWORK
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