Meet Amazing Data Women
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For our September meetup we have invited more amazing women who work with data to share their inspiring career stories with us. We’ll have great talks from female data scientists, female leaders, and women passionate about analytics and data science so come along, ask questions and meet other women who love data!
Agenda:
• 18:30- 19:00 Check-in & networking with some light refreshments
• 19:00- 20:00 Lightning talks from our women in data speakers and Q&A
• 20:00- 21:00 Networking & wrap-up
Speakers:
Aoife Drayne currently works as an Insight Analyst at Sky, the UK and Ireland’s largest pay-TV broadcaster. Her main focus is on customer analytics of content consumption, commercial behaviour and propensity modelling. At Sky she has experience in using both Python and SAS to deliver advanced analytics and machine learning models which help the marketing team enact retention and upsell strategies. Having started out in Actuary, after completing a Graduate Certificate in Data Analytics with UCD she decided to focus on Analytics. Outside of work she loves to travel, gym/run and trying not to poison herself with her own cooking.
Nina Jensen (https://twitter.com/@nina212), Senior Quantitative Analyst at AA Ireland, has in the past 16 months transitioned from an academic career in physics to leading a team who are building advanced streaming analytics solutions for a variety of business applications. Nina loves to broaden her understanding of all things analytical, including the analysis of how well gin mixes with tonic. (@nina212 (https://twitter.com/nina212))
Dana Kelleher (https://www.linkedin.com/in/danakelleher/) had a misspent youth studying to be an Engineer before seeing the light and moving to the data world. Having worked as Global Pricing Manager for ezetop/ding and now as Data Scientist in Trend Micro (with a brief spell in finance in between), her focus is now moving from data discovery mode to programme managing how we can execute campaigns on the data. She got married in August and returned to work after honeymoon a day earlier than planned – all for the love of data! (@danakelleher (https://twitter.com/danakelleher))