About us
We are the North East Data Scientists, and we love all things data!
We are an inclusive community which meets four times a year to listen to talks from data innovators, experts, and enthusiasts, as well as to learn about the latest data science tools and technologies with hands-on-workshops!
All our events are free-to-attend, and are a great opportunity to network with like-minded data professionals, software developers, students, engineers, and entrepreneurs. We meet in the TusPark building in Newcastle upon Tyne.
A selection of slides from previous talks are available at: jumpingrivers.github.io/neds-meetup-2022/.
Want to contact the organisational team? Get in touch with us via neds@jumpingrivers.com.
We are sponsored by:
• Jumping Rivers, an analytics company whose passion is data and machine learning.
• The R Consortium
This is a joint meet-up with the R North East User Group.
Upcoming events
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May Meetup
TusPark Newcastle, 27 Grainger Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, GBWelcome to our May meetup! Pizza and soft drinks will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis from 6pm as usual. There will be no pre-event workshop at this meetup, so please do not arrive before 6pm.
We have two excellent talks to look forward to from Mohammad Reza Sharifi and Arun Niranjan. Full details below :)
Schedule
1800--1825h: Refreshments
1830--18:35h: Welcome
1835--1900h: Your path into data & AI: the cloud‑first skills every practitioner needs
1900--1910h: Intermission
1910--1945h: Acting under uncertainty with pymdp
1945--2000h: News & Announcements
Talks
Mohammad Reza Sharifi, Graduate Data Solutions Engineer @ Seriös Group
Your path into data & AI: the cloud‑first skills every practitioner needsCloud literacy has become essential for anyone entering Data & AI. In this talk, I’ll share the cloud‑first principles and practical steps that shaped my own journey, and outline a simple, repeatable template that practitioners can use to build enterprise‑ready skills. The goal is to show how cloud fluency accelerates learning, unlocks real opportunities, and forms the foundation of modern data and ML practice.
Arun Niranjan, Staff AI Engineer @ Bud
Acting under uncertainty with pymdpDecision making with perfect knowledge of the world is straightforward. But in reality, we have to make decisions under uncertainty. In this talk, I will cover how to model Agents interacting with the environment as a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) using Active Inference, via the recently released pymdp python package.
News and Announcements
Have a news item or announcement you'd like to make about upcoming data events or job opportunities in the North East? Comment below or email us at neds@jumpingrivers.com and we'll do our best to circulate this information during the session.
Please also get in touch if you'd like to volunteer yourself for a talk at a future meetup!
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