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

  1. Data Mining 250 million Tweets a Day. Paul Gesiak, Data Scientist @Datasift, on what to do with massive amounts of Twitter data.
  2. A, T, C, G and you: Introducing the New Genomics. Matt Wood, Tech Evangelist @AmazonWS, on data science and bioinformatics.
  3. Oyster Card: Data Mining 90 million Daily Journeys. Neal Lathia, Data Scientist @UniversityofCambridge, on how data mining can help to reduce commuting costs.
  4. 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.
  5. 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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  • Stanley Braganza
    Stanley Braganza

    Would have loved to come - but I've got lectures that day :S

    Posted Tuesday at 1:21 PM
  • Dave Treagust
    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
  • Peter Cyriax
    Peter Cyriax

    Completely agree

    Posted Yesterday at 1:15 AM
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O'Reilly UK

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