Cincinnati Data and Analytics

The Cincinnati Data & Analytics Meetup is a monthly meetup featuring subject matter experts and enthusiasts of data and analytics in Cincinnati. It has been meeting monthly since May 2022, and meetups are hosted the third Wednesday of the month at Union Hall in OTR. At each meetup, the talk takes place from 4 to 5pm, followed by networking from 5 to 6pm, and food and drinks are provided. All Cincinnati data and analytics practitioners and enthusiasts are welcome!

Thank you to our meetup sponsors:

• Gifthealth for providing refreshments. Gifthealth is a digital platform that automates the coordination between providers, insurance payers, and pharmacies to streamline the prescription lifecycle. They've built an interoperable system that handles complex tasks like electronic prior authorizations and real-time cost-optimization to ensure patients get their medications without the typical manual delays. If you're interested in a new career, check out their current openings.
• InfoTrust, our digital sponsor. If you are looking for a new position, check out their website at infotrust.com/careers- they are a great place to work right here in the Cincinnati area.
• Cintrifuse for providing the space to meet. If you’re a founder looking for support, be sure to visit cintrifuse.com- they're a startup catalyst and innovation hub right here in the greater Cincinnati area.

Union Hall is fully ADA accessible. If there are food allergies or other needs the organizers can take into account, please let us know.

Transportation options to Union Hall include:

• Bus: there are over 10 bus stops within a three block radius of Union Hall. These stops are serviced by lines that go to neighborhoods including Walnut Hills, Norwood, Pleasant Ridge, Northside, College Hill, Clifton, Mt. Auburn, Avondale, Finneytown, and others. Bus fare within Hamilton County is $2.20, and you can plan your trip using the Transit app: transitapp.com.
• Cycling: bike parking is available on the street right outside Union Hall, and bikes are permitted inside Union Hall, if you would prefer to bring your bike inside.
• Driving: the Mercer Commons Garage is right across the street from Union Hall, and is $4 for 2 hours.

Talk topics from 2022, before we were on Meetup, included:

• Mobile Movement, Graph Embeddings, and Consumer Segmentation: A Foray into the Location Analytics Industry *by Jack Schroder, Lead Data Scientist at Spatial.ai*
• Simplifying the Data Ecosystem: Supporting the Producer-Consumer Relationship by Sam McFarland, Senior Director of Data & Analytics Enablement at Olive and Elizabeth Gilbert, Product Data Analyst at Olive
• Data Science in Remote Sensing by Rick Davila, Spectral Imagery Scientist at Radience Technologies
• Everything Tableau by Dinushki De Livera, Business Analyst at Unifund
• Data Science for Private Credit Investing by Paul Kostoff, Chief Technology Officer at Karus
• Building Deep Vision Models with Synthetic Data by Greg Sweeney, Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Pieces
• Data Science Platforms as a Product by Dan Shah, Data & Analytics Product Manager at IGS
• Event Streaming at Scale by Lauren McDonald, Principal Consultant at SEI

The goals of the Cincinnati Data & Analytics Meetup are to highlight the excellent work being done in data and analytics, provide opportunities for learning in the space, and build in person community.