PyData Meetup - Tracking Economic Change with Open Data - Dec 2019

https://a248.e.akamai.net/secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/8/1/7/a/600_445653146.jpeg

Agenda

• 6:30pm - 7:00pm Networking & Pizza :)

• 7:00pm - 7:40pm Talk: Exploring the LinkedIn Open Dataset
by Pei Ying Chua

• 7:45pm - 8:25pm Talk: Estimating Economic Growth in Developing Markets with Satellite Data by Rishabh Srivastava

Talk 1:

TITLE: Exploring the LinkedIn Open Dataset

SPEAKER: Pei Ying Chua

BIO:
Pei Ying leads the APAC Economic Graph Research and Insights team at LinkedIn. Bridging between policy, economics and data, her team partners with governments, public institutions, and policy influencers to identify opportunities and insights that help government and business leaders address the challenges of the modern workforce.
Her role includes government-focused analytics, development of upskilling and education policy, and customized labor market insights that form the core of LinkedIn’s vision to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce.
Previously, Pei Ying was the Head of Economics at Grab, South-East Asia’s largest ride-sharing company. She was also the VP of Social Impact for Conjunct Consulting, South-East Asia’s first social change consultancy, and is currently an active reviewer for the Journal for Imaging Science and Technology.
She holds combined BSc in Vision Science and Neuroscience from the University of Melbourne, an MPhil in Neuroscience from Cambridge, and an MA in Management from Harvard.

Talk 2:
TITLE: Estimating Economic Growth in Developing Markets with Satellite Data

SPEAKER: Rishabh Srivastava

SYNOPSIS:
Python libraries and a dash of machine learning can be used to estimate where economic growth in the developing world is coming from. In this talk, Rishabh will discuss how anyone familiar with python can start analyzing satellite imagery using two examples – NASA VIIRS Nighttime Lights images, and the ESA Sentinel-2 images.

BIO:

Rishabh Srivastava is the founder of Loki.ai – a Singapore-based data-science startup. He spends his days writing automation and personalization software, and evenings dabbling in computational-economics. He blogs at rish.blog, and can be found at @rishdotblog on Twitter.

Join us on Facebook and Twitter

https://www.facebook.com/groups/pydatasg/
https://www.twitter.com/pydatasg

Sponsors

• O'REILLY MEDIA INC.

https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/7/a/f/600_462502447.jpeg

• Engineers.SG

https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/0/2/3/600_462520995.jpeg

• NumFocus

https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/8/6/a/600_462502634.jpeg