Beyond the Hype -Data Science in the Real World

Hi Statistical Anomalies,

Thanks everyone for making the first meetup a cracking evening, over 200 turning up was amazing. According to a LinkedIn presentation this week, there are only 3,052 data nerds in Australia, so 6% of us were at Jeremy's talk.

For our next meetup we are pleased to welcome Ross Farrelly, Chief Data Scientist at Teradata. We would like to thank Teradata for generously supporting the evening - we have more data now to get the beer and pizza algorithm tuned so you hopefully don't go hungry or thirsty.

We also plan to have a series of introductory technical talks, with the first one being on Neural Networks. We'll be testing the meetup survey tool at some point to poll you all on what you want to learn about. If you are a domain expert and can explain to complete novices your subject, then please put your hand up to give a talk.

Please use the discussion forum to give feedback and throw ideas around on the type of things you would like the group to arrange. This is your group!

Thanks,

Data Science Melbourne Team

Mon 23rd June

6pm - 8:30pm

Inspire9

Talk 1: Ross Farrelly

Beyond the Hype - Data Science in the Real World

This presentation draws on real world use cases primarily from the telecommunications and banking industries to illustrate how large scale advanced analytics can be used to address a number of important business problems including fraud, marketing optimisation and customer experience.

Rather than focussing solely on the algorithms deployed, this presentation will also discuss the complexities of deploying analytical solutions in a large corporation. Topics such as data collection, data quality, communication of results and managing stakeholder expectations will be discussed in the context of data scientific deployments.

About Ross

Ross Farrelly (M. App. Stats., BSc(Hons), M. App. Ethics., Grad. Dip. Ed.) has many years’ experience in successful consulting, training and programming for clients around Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. He is currently Chief Data Scientist at Teradata South Pacific and principal analyst at Datamilk (http://www.datamilk.com/). He has successfully designed and implemented big data projects, comprising both Hadoop and Teradata Aster technologies in mega major companies in Australia, Indonesia and Japan. He is a certified advanced SAS programmer and also has extensive experience with R, SQL-MR, SQL and Java.

See

here (http://au.linkedin.com/in/rossfarrelly)

for Ross's Linkedin profile

Talk 2 - option 1

An idiots guide to Neural Networks

After the first meetup there has been much interest in the group on Deep Learning techniques. This short talk will be a relative gentle introduction to neural networks, trying to explain how they do what they do - lots of pictures and no maths! We will go on the journey from linear regression, to logistic regression to neural network.

Talk 2 - option 2

Getting Started with Kaggle