2014 overview of the activities of the brussels data science community
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HOW WE DID GOOD WHILE
LEARNING AND HAVING LOTS OF FUN
OVERVIEW OF OUR ACTIVITIES IN 201418/12/2014 1Brussels Data Science Community | @datasciencebe
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WE ARE THE FASTEST GROWING COMMUNITY OF DATA
SCIENTISTS IN EUROPE, DRIVEN BY VOLUNTEERS DOING
NON PROFIT DATA4GOOD WORK.
WE PROMOTE THE VALUE OF ANALYTICS AND ORGANISE
EVENTS, HANDS-ON SESSIONS AND TRAININGS TO CLOSE
THE GAP BETWEEN ACADEMICS AND BUSINESS.
JOIN US IF YOU WANT TO SHARE, LEARN AND HAVE FUN WITH
ANALYTICAL & TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION &
POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE.
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CHALLENGES
1. ACADEMIC TRAINING IS NOT ENOUGH
2. BUSINESS DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF ANALYTICS
3. DATASCIENCE IS TEAMWORK: NO IDEA ON HOW TO BUILD SUCH A TEAM
4. NO DATA TO WORK ON
5. NO TRAINING AVAILABLE FOR LATEST TECHNOLOGY
6. COMPANIES WANT TO HAVE A CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
7. COMPANIES CANNOT FIND THE RIGHT DATA SCIENTISTS
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SOME FIGURES
• 0 MARCH 25TH
• 601 MEETUP MEMBERS
• 487 LINKEDIN MEMBERS
• 7 NETWORKING DRINKS
• 155 FACEBOOK LIKES
• 1 STRATA PRESENTATION
• 2 KANAAL Z APEARANCE
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• 1 NGO HACKATHON (4 EVENINGS)
• 1 FULL DAY HANDS-ON ON SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS
• 1 MANAGEMENT TEAM
• TOP 50 BLOGS TO READ – LIST FROM NG DATA
• +150 PAGES OF OUR BLOGSITE VISITED EACH DAY
• +17K PAGES VISITED SINCE JULY
• +70 JOBS POSTED
• +200 BLOGPOSTS
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MILESTONES:
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March 27th – First meetup – 23
May 8th – Banking meetup – 70 June 19th – Data4Good meetup – 100 July 17th – Garden Party September 18th - HR meetup – 83 October 16th – Marketing meetup – 125
October 2014 – Hands On Session – Data4Good November 18th – IoT meetup – 250November 29th – Hands-On
Social Network Analysis - 30December 18th – Meetup
Big Data Science - 250
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Why is it exciting and fun?
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COMING ACTIVITIES - DATA4GOOD COMPETITION
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Ward Vanden Berghe
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DATA INNOVATION SUMMIT
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AGENDA:
• 18:30 UPDATE ON RECENT ACTIVITIES AND DEVELOPMENTS BY PHILIPPE VAN IMPE
• 19:00 WIM VAN LEUVEN ABOUT BIG DATA AND THE INFLUENCE OF DATA SCIENCE
• 19:30 DAAN GERITS ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES AROUND BIGDATA AND
WHAT THE IDEAL IT ARCHITECTURE SHOULD LOOK LIKE
• 20:00 FERDINAND CASIER ABOUT 2 CURRENT PROJECTS AT AGORIA (ELUCIDATA AND
MADE DIFFERENT) WHERE COMPANIES FROM DIFFERENT SECTORS ARE SUPPORTED IN
THEIR DATA INNOVATION AND DATA ANALYTICS CHALLENGE..
• 20:45 KARIM DOUÏEB THE PRO & CONS OF THE OPEN-SOURCE DATA ANALYTICS
CLUSTER COMPUTING FRAMEWORK CALLED SPARK. HOW IT IS HELPING US TO
PERFORM ANALYTICS ON LARGE AMOUNT OF TELCO/BANKING DATA. HOW TO
CONVEY THE INSIGHTS PROVIDED BY THIS ANALYSIS THROUGH DATA VISUALISATION
USING D3.JS
• 21:30 NETWORKING IN KULTUURKAFFEE18/12/2014 17
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