Data Science @CBS + Twitter Sentiment Mining + Agile Hadoop

17:00-18:00 Drinks, pizza

18:15-18:30 Welcome

18:30-19:00 Data Science and the Future of Statistics-Piet Daas, CBS

The elusive 'Data Scientist' is a word that pops up more and more. Is this a buzzword or is something really changing in the world? Piet Daas of the CBS will take us on a tour of the changes that he sees around him.

Piet Daas has been working at the 'Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/home/default.htm)' for more than 10 years as a statistician. The last few years he's also been the coordinator of research on non-survey data and the so-called 'Big Data' sources.

Linkedin (http://nl.linkedin.com/in/pietdaas) - Twitter (http://twitter.com/pietdaas)

19:00-19:30 Sentiment Analysis for Twitter - Tim Harbers, SNTMNT

With a solid academic background in computer science, Tim Harbers has since applied machine-learing on a variety of business problems. Recently turned entrepreneur, he and his company SNTMNT (http://www.sntmnt.com/) have shown succes in mining social media sentiment in the financial domain by using clever algorithms. Tim's talk will focus on mining sentiment.

Linkedin (http://www.linkedin.com/in/twhfharbers) - Twitter (https://twitter.com/timharbers)

19:30-20:30 Prototyping using the Hadoop stack - Russell Jurney

Russell Jurney will present about rapidly prototyping analytics applications using the Hadoop stack to return to agility in light of the ever deepening analytics stack.

Russell is writing a book (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025054.do) called Agile Data. He is a former data scientist at LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com), and now works for Hortonworks (http://hortonworks.com/).

Linkedin (http://www.linkedin.com/in/russelljurney) - Twitter (http://twitter.com/rjurney)

20:30-21:30 Drinks