2014 overview of the activities of the brussels data science community

HOW WE DID GOOD WHILE

LEARNING AND HAVING LOTS OF FUN

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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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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

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