Data Science in Practice: Importing and Visualizing Facebook Data Using Graphs!

We're partnering up with the DigitalOcean NYC (https://www.meetup.com/DigitalOceanNYC), Social Data NY (https://www.meetup.com/SocialDataNY/), Metis New York - Data Science (https://www.meetup.com/Metis-New-York-Data-Science/), Python / Flask Neo4j MeetUp (https://www.meetup.com/NYC-PythonFlask-Neo4J-Startup-meetup/) for an evening of data science.

Our speaker, Ray Bernard will walk through how his cloud-based marketing company, Suprfanz, uses Neo4j to drive attendance over social media platforms, email and SMS.

This talk will show you how to step-by-step use the Facebook Graph API to import data into Neo4j.The technologies discussed are Neo4j, Flask, Python, D3, and a cloud solutions stack on Digital Ocean. You are welcomed to bring your laptops and follow along. All the materials will be made available over Github.

We encourage you to are welcomed to bring your laptops and follow along. All the materials will be made available over Github.

Agenda:
6:30 - 7:00 - Social
7:00 - 7:10 - Announcements
7:10 - 8:00 - Ray Bernard, Suprfanz
8:00 - 8:30 - Social / Wrap-up

Speaker Bio
Ray Bernard (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-bernard-960382/) is the founder and Chief Architect at Suprfanz.com (http://suprfanz.com/). He is a former adjunct professor at Columbia University. Ray has worked for technology giants like Compaq, Dell, and EMC. As leader of the Cosmic Blues Band, he performs regularly at BB Kings in NYC!

Sponsors
Venue sponsored by DigitalOcean (https://www.digitalocean.com/)
Food and beverages sponsored by Neo4j (http://neo4j.com/)
Co-hosted by Metis Data Science School (http://thisismetis.com/)and CompassRed (http://compassred.com/)