Welcome, Introduction and Kick-Off

Details

This is our Meetup's first event. It will be a great opportunity for us to meet and get to know each other. We also want to share with you our goals and vision for our newly formed community. At the same time, this will be a chance for you to voice your ideas and tell us what your own aspirations are. Food and drinks will be freely available.

For more details on our venue, please visit:
http://www.corallia.org/en/innohubs/a2-innohub.html

Please be sure to let us know whether you will be coming by RSVPing. This will allow us to gauge space requirements and make sure we have enough food and drinks.

Agenda

"Welcome, Introduction and Kick-Off"

Rui Miguel Forte, Senior Data Scientist @ Workable

Our inaugural presentation will be an opportunity to learn about our vision for the Meetup, the benefits we envision for our members, and the ways in which members can contribute to the community. There will be plenty of time given for questions and we invite you to give your own feedback and perspective.

"Why Data Science is truly a Science"

Dr. C. Anagnostopoulos, Co-Founder @ Mentat Innovations & Lecturer @ Imperial College London

The term 'Data Scientist' arose fairly recently to express the specialised recruitment needs of certain well-known data-driven Silicon Valley firms. It signifies a mix of diverse and rare talents, mostly drawing from Computer Science (with emphasis on Big Data), Statistics and Machine Learning. In this talk, we will attempt to briefly survey the state-of-the-art both in terms of problems and solutions at the vanguard of Data Science. We will cover both novel developments, as well as centuries-old best practices, in an attempt to demonstrate that Data Science is indeed a Science, in the full sense of the word. This talk represents part of a seminar series that the speaker has given across the world, including Google (Mountainview), Cisco (San Jose) and Aviva Headquarters (London), and represents joint work with Professor David Hand (OBE).