Monthly Meeting: R vs. Julia vs. Python, with 3 presenters

6:15 - 6:45 Networking

6:45 - 7:00 - Showcase your DS or BI work in 5 Minutes: 3 presentations of existing tools: Hired, Birst, and AnswerRocket

7:00 - 7:45 Tech Challenge: R vs. Julia vs. Python, three demos of best features of each of these languages, followed by Q&A.

Julia By Dr. Peter Molnar

R By Peter Rosenmai

Python By Oleg Krivosheev

3 Presentation using different technology to solve a BI/DS problem. (Details will follow soon)

7:45-8:15 Q&A and discussions around the best features of each language.

Please let us know if you have your case ready and want to present it in the future. Only a limited number of presenters will be scheduled on first come first serve basis.

8:00- Ask any question you have within DS & BI, and the experts among your peers will do their best to answer it.

Happy Hour at a nearby location

Sponsored by Hired.com

Dr. Peter Molnar is a data scientist at Nomi® Corporation which specializes in retail-store analytics. Nomi’s sensor devices and analytics solutions support store-management and improved customer experience. Dr. Molnar has been an associate professor of computer science at Clark Atlanta University where he taught artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, robotics, and development of web-applications. His research in social agent systems, collaborative systems, and distributed sensor-fusion has received funding from federal and state agencies.

Peter Rosenmai: I'm an Australian statistician with a background in software development. I work for Align Alytics, a management consultancy based in Philadelphia and London. We're a team of software and web developers, statisticians, business analysts and data scientists.

Oleg Krivosheev: Physicist, PhD in accelerator physics, doing Monte Carlo simulations all my life, worked in Fermi National Accelerato Laboratory, then for Medical Equipment companies, radiation cancer treatment. Currently a
Software Developer, Treatment Planning System at Xcision Medical,