About us
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:
- Illumination Works for providing refreshments. Illumination Works is a trusted technology partner in user-centric digital transformation, delivering impactful business results to clients through a wide range of services including big data information frameworks, data science, data visualization, and application/cloud engineering, all while focusing the approach on the end-user perspective. Illumination Works has a hybrid work model with employees in 20+ states and is actively recruiting.
- 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.
Upcoming events
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The Agentic Era: Orchestrating the Future of Professional Baseball
Union Hall, 1311 Vine St, Cincinnati, OH, USFor two decades, baseball has been a game of who has the best data. Today, every team has the data. The new competitive advantage isn't having information, it’s the speed of action. This talk introduces Agentic AI, the next evolution of artificial intelligence that moves beyond generating text to executing complex, autonomous workflows for the front office.
This talk will be presented by Mickey Mentzer, Senior Director - Baseball Systems at the Cincinnati Reds.
Session will take place 4-5pm, followed by networking 5-6pm. Refreshments will be provided. Meetups are hosted the third Wednesday of each month at Union Hall in OTR and feature subject matter experts and enthusiasts in the fields of data and analytics.
Thank you to our sponsors:
- 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.
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.
53 attendees
How to Lie With Data: Common Types of Metric Manipulation
Union Hall, 1311 Vine St, Cincinnati, OH, USYou’re invited to this training style talk on common sources of data manipulation and flawed methodologies. Liz will unpack the most common forms of metric manipulation and teach attendees how to identify them quickly. This talk will empower participants to make smarter, more nuanced data decisions.
This talk will be presented by Liz Roberts, Associate Director of Data Science at Spotify.
Session will take place 4-5pm, followed by networking 5-6pm. Refreshments will be provided. Meetups are hosted the third Wednesday of each month at Union Hall in OTR and feature subject matter experts and enthusiasts in the fields of data and analytics.
Thank you to our sponsors:
- 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.
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.
9 attendees
Past events
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