February Meetup

Our meetup this February is going to look at technologies for working with data in the finance sector, pharmaceutical sector and beyond. We are graciously being sponsored by Kx Systems who will be bringing us a speaker from abroad to present kdb+, a powerful and industry-leading database. This will be a great opportunity for us as a Meetup to explore both new verticals as well as look at a powerful technology. kdb+ can be downloaded for free and copies will also be provided to us at the event. If you are working in finance or interested in working with financial data, you won't want to miss this.

Our venue this time is ImpactHub and we have reserved a room that can fit 110 people. We will also be live streaming once more via http://www.datascienceathens.org/live. We know from last time that there was an issue with the video quality for seeing the slides, so I will endeavour to provide a better experience this time round.

Agenda

"Performing Big Data Analytics across Industries using Financial Trading Technologies", Christos Chatzikomnitsas

Christos has been working with First Derivatives for 2 years as a kdb+ consultant. He is involved in projects with major investment Banks in trading applications. In his current role as a kdb+ developer he is responsible for development and maintenance of Market Database of a Major Investment Bank including data mapping, manipulation and optimization. Christos has a background on Computer Science. He holds a BSc in Telecommunications and CS, and an MSc in Computer Science. This talk will include how kdb+ is expanding into other markets outside of the Financial Trading arena in this instance Pharma, and why it is well placed to take advantage of IoT and Sensor Data. It will also discuss how these technologies can be used in Sensor Analytics, Telco etc.