Data Science and Machine Learning evening at GoDataDriven office in Amsterdam

Hello dear members,

Exciting news: it's time to announce our next meetup! The event will be sponsored and hosted by GoDataDriven (http://www.godatadriven.com/), a Data Science & Machine Learning company, at their office in Amsterdam.

We prepared for you a nice blend of topics from both industry and science, followed by an extensive and fruitful networking, as well as usual pizza and drinks! So hurry up to RSVP, number of spots is limited!

The event is for free, all talks will be in English.

We are looking forward to seeing you there.

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Event Schedule:

18:30 - 19:00

Pizza, drinks and networking!

19:00 - 19:30

Running scikit-learn on YARN

By Niels Zeilemaker, Big Data Hacker at GoDataDriven

Scikit-learn is a machine learning package for Python which focuses on ease of use. Its aim is to allow non-specialists to quickly evaluate different models. However, until recently running scikit-learn was limited to a single machine. And hence, compute heavy tasks such as parameter sweeps, or training complex models took forever to complete. In this talk, we will explain how we modified scikit-learn to use YARN for its compute and therefore speed up this process substantially. The allocation of containers is dynamic, and the number of vcores is easily configured from within the scikit-learn by setting the n_jobs parameter.

19:30 - 20:00

Atmospheric pressure as an additional risk factor in the response of a dike to a catastrophic situation

By Dr. Han Geurdes, an independent data scientist with experience in business consultancy

Random dynamical modelling of time series of dike data is used as a baseline of the study. The time series under study are in-dike water level, in-dike temperature and atmospheric pressure. When pressure shows a monotone increase because of changes in atmospheric conditions, we found a maximum possible change in water level of plus or minus 0.5 meter per initial change of 0.1 kilo Pascal. The object under study was the Ommelanderzeedijk. A similar effect was also found for river dikes e.g. the watergraafsmeer dike or a dike by Veesen (near Wijhe in Overijssel) and time series measurements near the Eemshaven dike.

20:00 - 20:15

Coffee break!

20:15 - 20:45

How Open Hardware drives healthcare innovation

By Diderik van Wingerden and Simon Hoogveld van der Meer from Totem

An inspiration talk on open (source) systems and how to use data in healthcare innovation.
What is Open Hardware? What impact can open systems have on society? And why we should use them. Subsequently, Simon is going to discuss how to use data gathered for motion analysis and for creating algorithms - specifically on his use case for Patients with Parkinson’s Disease.

20:45- 21:30

Drinks & Networking