Data Science in Practice: Importing and Visualizing Facebook Data Using Graphs!

We're partnering up with the Neo4.com, weclouddata.com, www.meetup.com/tech-entrepreneurs , and SuprFanz.com for an evening of data science.

Our speaker, Ray Bernard will walk through how his cloud-based marketing company, Suprfanz, (http://www.suprfanz.com/) uses Neo4j (https://neo4j.com/) to drive attendance over social media platforms, email and SMS.

This talk will show you how to step-by-step use the Facebook Graph API to import data into Neo4j. The technologies discussed are Neo4j, Flask, Python and D3. All the materials will be made available over Github.

Please use this URL to find the classroom at the University of Toronto. http://www.classfind.com/toronto/room/OI5250

Agenda:
7:00 - 7:30 - Social
7:30 - 7:40 - Announcements
7:40 - 8:40 - Ray Bernard & Jen Webb, Suprfanz
8:40 - 9:00 - Social / Wrap-up

Speaker Bio
Ray Bernard (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-bernard-960382/) is the founder and Chief Architect at Suprfanz.com (http://suprfanz.com/). He is a former adjunct professor at Columbia University. Ray has worked for technology giants like Compaq, Dell, and EMC. As leader of the Cosmic Blues Band, he performs regularly at BB Kings in NYC!