PyData Ireland Virtual Meetup #1

Welcome to the PyData Ireland remote meetup series.
We will be hosting these meetups on Monday evenings at 7 pm (Irish Time) over the summer of 2020.

The first one will be happening on May 18th, 2020
at 7 pm IST / 6 pm UTC

Topic: PyData Remote Summer MeetUp

We require you to register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5_ZGaQODS8WocS8DDZBYnA

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information on how to join the event.

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Webinar Speakers:

• Arjumand Younus
  [1] Title: Social Media Analytics around Covid-19: A Case-Study of Misinformation

• Niall O'Connor
  [2] Title: Trading bots - Signals - AI - Impossible!!

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Abstracts:
[1] Covid-19 has created a tremendous impact in our world not just offline but also online. A particularly dangerous phenomenon is that of misinformation of which there are various types such as conspiracy theories, rumours, propaganda etc.. We performed an analysis of tweets posted on Twitter regarding the famous conspiracy around 5g and its link to COVID-19 using a famous technique from within natural language processing. This technique known as Word Embeddings is part of Python Gensim library and this talk will present a walk-through demonstration of that.

[2] Most 'Data people' tend to find a usable piece of data and work with it to produce a picture. This approach cannot be correctly applied to the world of finance. I would like to give people the inside track into what banks/trading desks do and why the data problem is so complex. Unfortunately, there are a few factors that make actual trading impossible to succeed at. 385% return is what you one is roughly looking for not 4% :-)

STAY TUNED!