February 22, 2012 6:30 PM - 135 attended
So what is Data Science?
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This is our first inaugural meetup!
Join us this evening to meet other data scientists & data geeks, and find out how some startups are applying Data Science.
Agenda
18:30 Welcome and networking around free beer and pizza
19:00 5-10 min. talks
- Data Mining 250 million Tweets a Day. Paul Gesiak, Data Scientist @Datasift, on what to do with massive amounts of Twitter data.
- A, T, C, G and you: Introducing the New Genomics. Matt Wood, Tech Evangelist @AmazonWS, on data science and bioinformatics.
- Oyster Card: Data Mining 90 million Daily Journeys. Neal Lathia, Data Scientist @UniversityofCambridge, on how data mining can help to reduce commuting costs.
- Human Cloning: The Data Scientist Bottleneck Resolved. Alex Farquhar, Data Scientist @Forward, on the scarcity of data scientists, and how data scientists can maximise their output.
- Telling Stories about People and Their Influence. Ferenc Huszár, Data Scientist @PeerIndex, on how to apply data science in the social web.
21:00 Wrap up and continue networking at the pub around the corner
Free Data Science Books: during the event we’ll be giving away 10 free Data Science, R, & Big Data books, courtesy of O’Reilly UK.
We'll try to make this meetup enjoyable, fun!
Interested in doing a lightning talk or pitch (1min)? Contact carlos @ datasciencelondon org
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Dave Treagust
Wow, very inspiring talks and a good variety of subjects.
The hosts did a great job, looking forward to the next meetup.Posted Wednesday at 10:03 PM -
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Deepak SubhramanianOne of the best meetups I attended. Good variety of interesting topics and well organized. I am looking forward for the next meetup.
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Dan HarveyGreat set of speakers and some interesting discussions afterwards. Promising start to the Data Science group!Checked-in
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RiccardoDefinitely well organised. Impressive number of people there, so extra kudos for the organisation. The talks were good but a bit too abstract probably, although being the first of a series of events, that was probably a good choice.
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RoshiniIt was a great meetup and very well organized! The talks were interesting and although brief, managed to point out some very interesting insights about data science and how we understand it or rather how we should be understanding it. Looking forward to the next one :) !
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Patrick O'Connor
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Loved the quickfire presentations. But book prizes cld have been more organised.
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Andrea SplendianiVery good. It was a first meetup, so it was more presentations that discussion, but it was a very good first meetup. Then there is a program laid out for the next few months already. So... what to ask more ?
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James HammertonThis meeting had an excellent range of short talks, some thought provoking, some humorous, all informative.
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Free Data Science Books
from O'Reilly UK
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