Edinburgh Data Science + AI November Meetup

Edinburgh's community meetup for people working in - or just interested in - Data Science and AI. We're a friendly bunch of professionals, academics, students and others who enjoy meeting over drinks and pizza and listening to insightful talks.

We will once again be generously hosted by CreateFuture at the Old Stamp Office (next to Waverley Station) from 6pm on Thursday 27th November. Create Future will also be sponsoring pizza and drinks for the event.

As usual there will be two talks:
RAG Deep Dive: Practical Tips for Building Your Own
Joan Figuerola Hurtado will be following up on his recent talk at ML Ops with a more in-depth look at his RAG project, AskPandi.
A/B Testing the Absurd: Lessons from Sports Data
Thomas Aston will give a short talk expanding on what he has learnt analysing football data for his xGuff newsletter.

Schedule:
6pm - 7pm - Networking with pizza and drinks
7pm - 8.15pm - Talks with Q&A
8.15pm onwards - Continued networking

CreateFuture is an accessible venue, if you have any questions about accessibility please get in touch.

If you have a shoutout / you are hiring please let us know!

Speaker Bios:
Joan Figuerola Hurtado
Joan co-founded SpecifiedBy, where he led engineering for 12 years, making building construction information more accessible and discoverable. He now works at Wordsmith as a Member of Technical Staff, focusing on generative AI.

Thomas Aston
Thomas is a final-year PhD researcher in engineering at the University of Edinburgh, where his work focuses on using video and sensor data to inform models of the biomechanical response of the brain to head impacts in sport. Outside of my research, I run a newsletter exploring the lighter side of sports data, diving into whether any meaningful insight can be extracted from the most seemingly useless stats (which is exactly what my talk will focus on).

Meetup Group Sponsors
Edinburgh Data Science Meetup is proudly sponsored by local start-ups Neuron and Moonsift. Neuron's mission is to help businesses transition from finite human labour to infinite agentic systems. Moonsift is building an AI-powered shopping co-pilot.