Data Science and Machine Learning evening at high-tech incubator, Yes!Delft (2)

Hello Data Enthusiasts!

It has been a while from the previous meet-up! But we're back :)

We’re happy to announce that next meetup session with exciting talks from Industry leaders and experts, followed by networking will be held at a leading Dutch high-tech incubator, Yes!Delft.

We are looking forward to seeing you there.

This meetup session will be "partially" sponsored by IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (IEEE TEAMS) (http://www.ieeetmc.org/#zoom=2&lat=20&lon=0&layers=000BT), KIVI (https://www.kivi.nl/) and Spore.BI (http://www.sporebi.com/)

Price: 5 euro to cover pizza and drinks costs (optional while appreciated!)

Language: English

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Event Schedule:

18:30 - 19:15

Pizza, Drinks and Networking!

19:15 - 19:30

Introductory talk from organizers (Spore.BI)

By Amir Piltan and Nicolas Kramer, founders at Spore.BI

19:30 - 20:00

Exercise type detection for endurance sports

By Jonatan Samoocha, Senior Data Scientist at GoDataDriven

This presentation will walk through building a service for personalized training assistance for endurance sports. One of the important steps in this effort may be to identify the type of exercise, e.g. “endurance” vs. “interval”. Some details will be provided about specific challenges for this task, such as non-existent or unreliable labels.

20:00 - 20:15

Coffee Break!

20:15 - 20:45

Selling Predictive Analytics is like selling Research work

By Emile Kelkboom, Senior Data Scientist at Ordina

After working 7 years at Philips Research, I'm selling “Data Science as a Service” since joining Ordina at the end of 2013.

Predictive analytics has shown it’s great benefits in different areas like marketing, asset management , weather, and others. However, predictive analytics cannot be applied on every problem. It can only be applied on the cases where the (historic) data is indicative for the target (future) you try to predict, or at least reducing its uncertainty. This uncertainty makes it a challenge to sell predictive analytics and, in my opinion, it is similar to selling research work where a success rate of 1 out of 10 research projects is excellent.

This requires an agile and close collaboration with the client to extract the valuable actionable insight from the data, which is the foundation of our Data Science as a Service proposition.

In my talk, I will share my experiences as a Data Science Consultant and present highlights of some of the work we have done at Ordina.

20:45- 22:00

Drinks & Networking