Data Workshop with Vladimir (#2)

What?

Data Workshop with Vladimir

When?

Saturday, 11 June, 11:00 – 16:00 (4 sessions with pizza break).

Where?

GE Healthcare ul. Życzkowskiego 20

Motivation

Let me invite you for Data Workshop #2. About previous one you can read here - https://www.meetup.com/datakrk/events/230392309/ . As you know (or you will now from now) on Data Workshop we're focusing on how to solve a problem (without complicated theory). Next step is learning more about an available tools (algorithms). Let's focus on boosting algorithms - especially on xgboost ( https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost ). Let me give a quote to motivate you understand why xgboost matter: "When in doubt, use xgboost" (c) Owen Zhang (winner several competitions on Kaggle).

What you will learn

What the problems you can solve using xgboost?How to build a xgboost model? How it works inside on intuitive level (including gradient descent)?What type of parameters does xgboost have?How to tune those parameters?

GE Healthcare will provide pizza during the lunch break

About the speaker

I like traveling, also in IT world. I worked in different areas in IT (with different technologies). A lot of things happened in this time… I don’t remember all of them, but last 2-3 years I spend my time related with data. I was involved in building infrastructure for Big Data, I was preparing ETL (Hadoop stuff) and analyzed data (sales forecasting) and so on. In my free time I’m learning from MOOC (Coursera, Udacity, edX and so on), books and I take participation on the Kaggle. I love solve problem related with data.

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of python

• Install anaconda ( http://continuum.io/downloads ) or install manually those packages: ipython, scikit-learn, pandas, ggplot

• Install xgboost - https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost

• Use this script to verify your environment - https://github.com/dataworkshop/prerequisite

Please bring your laptop with you

HOW TO GET TO THE MEETING?

By public transportation

You can reach our office by tram 4, 5, 9, 10, 52 or 72. The nearest stop is 'AWF'

and have a walk along Politechnika Krakowska buildings (Życzkowskiego street). Avia building is located at the end of this small street. Remember that total travel time from the city center may take around 30 minutes.

By car

On Saturday there will be plenty of places to park the car next to Życzkowskiego street

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