Presenter - Alexey Grigorev - Lead Data Scientist at OLX Group
https://www.linkedin.com/in/agrigorev
3 Hacks to Accelerate your Data Science Career
Alexey lives in Berlin his wife and son. He works as a lead data scientist at OLX and he runs DataTalks.Club — a community for data enthusiasts.
Alexey wrote a few books about machine learning. One of them is Machine Learning Bookcamp — a book for software engineers who want to get into machine learning.
Robin Huggins, Client Services Director at MBN Solutions will be chairing the event - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinhuggins
Join us for an excellent presentation followed by a Q&A sess
Creating Great Analysts - How to Build and Identify Skills in Your Team.
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Creating Great Analysts - How to Build and Identify Skills in Your Team.
Presenter - Martin Squires – Director of Advanced Analytics – Pets at Home - https://www.linkedin.com/in/squiresmartin
Selected 6 times as a member of the Data IQ Data 100, Martin is an experienced customer insight, marketing analytics and data science professional, operating as a senior business leader across retail and financial services.
With a proven track record building and leading customer analysis, data science, research & insight teams and delivering large scale IT/data projects as part of multi-million pound development and transformation programmes, he believes customer & marketing analytics are vital for successful organisations and that the leading organisations have 3 key things in common.
- They will have access to the best data
- They will have the best ability to generate insight from that data
- They will use those insights to execute best at moment of truth
Join us for an excellent presentation followed by a Q&A session.
The most frustrating part of being a Data Scientist and Analyst.
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The most frustrating part of being a Data Scientist and Analyst.
In this presentation, Dr Shorful Islam will discuss his theory that - how no matter how well you do a piece of analysis - the business does not always take on board your recommendations and insights.
Describing this as “a common occurrence”, Shorful will provide some practical tips on how you can minimise the risks of this happening.
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Dr Shorful Islam is Chief Product & Data Officer at OutThink, the world’s first predictive human risk management solution.
He is also the Chief Data Scientist for Tribal Worldwide, where he leads its Data Science Practice, and the Founder of Subatomic Analytics, a data analytics consultancy.
He has worked at, and advised, some of the world’s largest organisations on data strategy, data analytics and data science. His previous roles include Managing Director and co-founder at Stream Intelligence (a Data Science Consultancy based in London and Jakarta), Managing Partner, Data and Insights, at Wunderman, Head of Data at adam&eve/DDB, and Head of Business Information and Customer Data Strategy at ITV. He has also worked across the NHS and local government
Dr Shorful started his career as a lecturer after completing his PhD in Psychology, where his dissertation focused on predicting accidental injuries in children.
Lakehouse : what it is and how can transform your company
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** We are aware this is another fairly technical event, we will be adding a more Analytics focussed event today or tomorrow for the same week **
Dr. Guillermo G Schiava D'Albano –
Team Lead Nordics SA - Solution Architect at Databricks -https://www.linkedin.com/in/g-schiava
Lakehouse : what it is and how can transform your company
Traditional EDW are good to store structure data, with a high cost per GB.
Traditional Data Lakes on the cloud are good to store unstructured data, not supporting classic ACID operations found on EDW.
At the same time Data lakes have lower cost per GB than a traditional EDW.
AI usually requires the combination of different sources structured and unstructured.
The traditional way to solve the shortcomings of these technologies is to combine them with difficult to main ETLs
Lakehouse is a new open architect that combines the best elements of EDW and Data Lakes. On top of open standards that allows costumes to never be vendor lock.
Darren Moffat @ MBN Solutions will be the chair for this event - https://www.linkedin.com/in/darren-moffat
What to do with your data in a serverless world - Angela Timofte @ TrustPilot
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What to do with your data in a serverless world - Angela Timofte @ TrustPilot
Angela Timofte (Presenter) - Data Platform Manager at Trustpilot | AWS Hero | Winner Developer of the Year - https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-timofte-it
From SMBs to Enterprises, everyone is trying or wants to go serverless first, however many times we don’t hear about what we should do with the data, how to store it, where to store it, and what options is AWS offering us.
Throughout my presentation, I’d like to showcase how Trustpilot is thinking about data storage when creating new applications or migrating old ones together with examples of struggles and learnings from these experiences.
Darren Moffat @ MBN Solutions will be the chair for this event - https://www.linkedin.com/in/darren-moffat
The 3rd party cookies which have supported targeted advertising are disappearing, how will marketers react and what is the solution? 1st party data holds a major source of alternative value and has long been heralded as the great hope. Hear how some of the UK's leading insurers, telcos and utilities are accelerating their response and realising the value of 1st party data-driven advertising.
Loop Horizon enables brands to unlock the value of this 1st party data in a compliant, low latency and and efficient manner, leveraging the native benefits of cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure or Snowflake to connect customer audiences to advertising & marketing platforms. Having led the data & digital transformation at Sky Rob McLaughlin & James Alexander co-founded Loop Horizon and now support the world's biggest brands in driving value from cloud data for advertising & marketing benefit.
Hear co-founder Rob McLaughlin's perspectives on the industry and why Data teams are destined to be the best friend of Marketing. Looking forward to sharing, answering questions and lively discussion on the future of data for marketing.
Rob McLaughlin - Co-Founder @ Loop Horizon - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robanalytics
The Data Lab MSc Placement Programme Launch Event - 8th December @ 12pm
For the 5th consecutive year MBN are delighted to be the delivery partners for The Data Lab’s MSc Placement Programme.
Following the success of the Programme, we are looking to place even more students into industry than before and are hosting a virtual event to give organisations all the information that they need to take part in the Programme. We aim to give an overview of the Programme and answer any questions that you may have.
We are looking for industrial placement opportunities for 160 MSc Students. We have partnered with The Data Lab to provide 8 – 12 weeks summer placements in Scottish organisations as an option to all students on the Programme.
This collaborative Programme covers 29 Data Science and AI courses across 12 Scottish Universities.
The rules of the Programme have slightly changed this year- all placements need to have the ability to be undertaken on a remote basis. This opens the opportunity for SME’s/ start-ups, or even those with limited office space to get involved.
During this event, previous Host Organisations will share their experience with the Programme. We will also hear from a previous student who will you insight into her experience.
Hosts-
Introduction to The Data Lab: Marian Dunbar - https://www.linkedin.com/in/marian-dunbar and Cheryl Stewart, Placement Co-ordinator, The Data Lab
Introduction to the Programme: Bethany Rodgers-Rintoul, MBN Solutions - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethanybrodgers
Speakers-
Andrew Conkie - Data Scientist at Red Star - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-conkie-44018713
Karen Jewell – Data Scientist/ Data Lab Student from 2019/20 cohort - https://www.linkedin.com/in/karjewell
Elizabeth Hollinger – Director of Insight | Data | Applications Development at Aggreko - https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-hollinger-31055234
Think Differently about Data-Driven Transformation
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‘Think Differently about Data-Driven Transformation’
Tony Brown, Managing Director at Prickly Cactus, will be presenting - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonybrown4
Tony is former Head of 121 Marketing at Lloyds Banking Group and VP of Product Management at Teradata. Now CEO of Prickly Cactus, a consultancy working with enterprises to optimise their data, analytics and decisioning capabilities to improve CX and profitability.
Tony will present for around 30 mins and we can follow up with a Q&A discussion.
With Christmas round the corner, we're turning our attention to the retail sector. This session will take a look at some of the innovative ways data is being used both to manage physical retail premises and to maximise customer value in online shopping. Come along to hear from our speakers and chat over a virtual mince pie!
Christmas Jumpers are encouraged (read mandatory!)...
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AGENDA
6pm. Virtual Networking In the form of Break-out Rooms from 6pm.
6:15 - 6:45pm. Speakers.
6:45pm+ Open Q&A and Discussion
Note: Though we Aim to end at 7pm we have had some great conversations and discussions that have carried over into extra time so we hope you stick with us until the end!
Zoom Link will be made available to those who RSVP, password will be sent out 24hours & 1 hour prior to the event. Look out for the Email!
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Andrew Veitch is CEO of Machine Labs, an Edinburgh-based Database Marketing startup who use AI to help their eCommerce customers to improve their marketing to sell more. Machine Labs have plans to further enhance their offering with increased use of AI, having recently won a place on TechNations' Applied AI growth programme.
Talks 2:
Mike joined IGS as Managing Director in 2019 and is focused on the operation, delivery, and growth of the Intelligent Grid organisation, with a firm eye on scale, consistency and quality.
With more than 25 years’ experience in helping drive business performance in the technology sector around people and process optimisation, he brings with him a wealth of knowledge of building and scaling operations in the start-up and enterprise space.
A self-confessed technology aficionado whose experience has been built upon a firm engineering background, Mike thrives on applying proven business process with innovation and great people to achieve something extraordinary.
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Co-hosted by The Data Lab, Scotland IS and Opportunity North East
With Christmas round the corner, we're turning our attention to the retail sector. This session will take a look at some of the innovative ways data is being used both to manage physical retail premises and to maximise customer value in online shopping. Come along to hear from our speakers and chat over a virtual mince pie!
Christmas Jumpers are encouraged (read mandatory!)...
Look out for speakers to be announced shortly!!
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AGENDA
6pm. Virtual Networking In the form of Break-out Rooms from 6pm.
6:15 - 6:45pm. Speakers.
6:45pm+ Open Q&A and Discussion
Note: Though we Aim to end at 7pm we have had some great conversations and discussions that have carried over into extra time so we hope you stick with us until the end!
Zoom Link will be made available to those who RSVP, password will be sent out 24hours & 1 hour prior to the event. Look out for the Email!
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Talk 1:
Andrew Veitch is CEO of Machine Labs, an Edinburgh-based Database Marketing startup who use AI to help their eCommerce customers to improve their marketing to sell more. Machine Labs have plans to further enhance their offering with increased use of AI, having recently won a place on TechNations' Applied AI growth programme.
Talks 2:
Mike joined IGS as Managing Director in 2019 and is focused on the operation, delivery, and growth of the Intelligent Grid organisation, with a firm eye on scale, consistency and quality.
With more than 25 years’ experience in helping drive business performance in the technology sector around people and process optimisation, he brings with him a wealth of knowledge of building and scaling operations in the start-up and enterprise space.
A self-confessed technology aficionado whose experience has been built upon a firm engineering background, Mike thrives on applying proven business process with innovation and great people to achieve something extraordinary.
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Co-hosted by The Data Lab, Scotland IS and Opportunity North East
With Christmas round the corner, we're turning our attention to the retail sector. This session will take a look at some of the innovative ways data is being used both to manage physical retail premises and to maximise customer value in online shopping. Come along to hear from our speakers and chat over a virtual mince pie!
Christmas Jumpers are encouraged (read mandatory!)...
Look out for speakers to be announced shortly!!
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AGENDA
6pm. Virtual Networking In the form of Break-out Rooms from 6pm.
6:15 - 6:45pm. Speakers.
6:45pm+ Open Q&A and Discussion
Note: Though we Aim to end at 7pm we have had some great conversations and discussions that have carried over into extra time so we hope you stick with us until the end!
Zoom Link will be made available to those who RSVP, password will be sent out 24hours & 1 hour prior to the event. Look out for the Email!
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Talk 1:
Andrew Veitch is CEO of Machine Labs, an Edinburgh-based Database Marketing startup who use AI to help their eCommerce customers to improve their marketing to sell more. Machine Labs have plans to further enhance their offering with increased use of AI, having recently won a place on TechNations' Applied AI growth programme.
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Co-hosted by The Data Lab, Scotland IS and Opportunity North East
We are delighted to support this Talent4Point0 event - https://talent4point0.com/
In recent years, there has been an increased uptake and popularity of technical training and development courses. Innovative organisations in Scotland have been at the forefront of this development, helping to aid and develop the next generation of data savvy professionals.
✔ What is this journey like for women in STEM?
✔ Have they embraced this trend- what obstacles have they faced?
✔ And, most importantly - what opportunities wait for them at the end?
Together, we will discuss some of the key issues around women career changers and those who have up-skilled.
✔ How we do make women aware of the sideways move into tech?
✔ How are we able to embrace and encourage women from non-technical/ coding backgrounds to upskill and meet the demand of the skills shortage?
✔ What are the main challenges of returning/ starting a career in tech?
During this event, we will follow the story of 3 influential women in STEM, who each have their own unique story – followed up with a lively questions and answer discussion.
Agenda
Thursday 3rd December 2020, 1pm - 2.30pm
ZOOM Conference
13.00 – 13.10 Introduction to Talent4Point0 by Elizabeth Hollinger Director of Insight | Data | Applications Development @ Aggreko - https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-hollinger-31055234
13.10 – 13.20 - Overview of the event by Bethany Rodgers-Rintoul – Project Manager @ MBN Academy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethanybrodgers
13.20– 13.35 - Joanna Glenfield - Project Officer, Equate Scotland – Introducing Equate Scotland/ The landscape for women in STEM/services Equate Scotland offer -https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-glenfield-a636771b
13.35 – 13.50 - Eleanor Mitchell- AI consultant (sharing her story) - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanor-mitchell-571179
Shop Around the Clock: Data is Transforming Retail - NE Data Meetup, Dec 2020
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With Christmas round the corner, we're turning our attention to the retail sector. This session will take a look at some of the innovative ways data is being used both to manage physical retail premises and to maximise customer value in online shopping. Come along to hear from our speakers and chat over a virtual mince pie!
Christmas Jumpers are encouraged (read mandatory!)...
Look out for speakers to be announced shortly!!
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AGENDA
6pm. Virtual Networking In the form of Break-out Rooms from 6pm.
6:15 - 6:45pm. Speakers.
6:45pm+ Open Q&A and Discussion
Note: Though we Aim to end at 7pm we have had some great conversations and discussions that have carried over into extra time so we hope you stick with us until the end!
Zoom Link will be made available to those who RSVP, password will be sent out 24hours & 1 hour prior to the event. Look out for the Email!
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Co-hosted by The Data Lab, Scotland IS and Opportunity North East
Shop Around the Clock: Data is Transforming Retail - NE Data Meetup, Dec 2020
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With Christmas round the corner, we're turning our attention to the retail sector. This session will take a look at some of the innovative ways data is being used both to manage physical retail premises and to maximise customer value in online shopping. Come along to hear from our speakers and chat over a virtual mince pie!
Christmas Jumpers are encouraged (read mandatory!)...
Look out for speakers to be announced shortly!!
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AGENDA
6pm. Virtual Networking In the form of Break-out Rooms from 6pm.
6:15 - 6:45pm. Speakers.
6:45pm+ Open Q&A and Discussion
Note: Though we Aim to end at 7pm we have had some great conversations and discussions that have carried over into extra time so we hope you stick with us until the end!
Zoom Link will be made available to those who RSVP, password will be sent out 24hours & 1 hour prior to the event. Look out for the Email!
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Co-hosted by The Data Lab, Scotland IS and Opportunity North East
The November instalment of the North East Data Meet-up is here. Looking at Natural Language and highlighting two examples of the fantastic organisations working right here in Scotland and the North East!
Look out for speakers to be announced shortly!!
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6pm. Virtual Networking In the form of Break-out Rooms from 6pm.
6:15 Until 6:45pm. Speakers.
6:45pm. Open Q&A + Discussion
Zoom Link will be made available to those who RSVP, password will be sent out 24hours prior to the event. Look out for the Email!
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Talk 1 - Ioannis Papaioannou
Ioannis is the CTO and co-founder of Alana AI and holds a post-graduate degree in conversational AI while finishing his PhD, specialising in open-domain, coherent and engaging multi-turn dialogue policies, and Human-Robot Interaction. He has a wealth of experience across the tech industry, having designed and successfully deployed several large-scale projects, as well as being part of several Conversational AI research projects. Ioannis was one of the main developers of Alana during the Amazon Alexa Prize Competition 2017-2018 and led the Alexa Prize Heriot-Watt team in 2017.
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Co-hosted by The Data Lab Scotland, Scotland IS and Opportunity North East
Whats your Natural Language? - North East Data Meetup, November 2020
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The November instalment of the North East Data Meet-up is here. Looking at Natural Language and highlighting two examples of the fantastic organisations working right here in Scotland and the North East!
Look out for speakers to be announced shortly!!
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AGENDA -
6pm. Virtual Networking In the form of Break-out Rooms from 6pm.
6:15 Until 6:45pm. Speakers.
6:45pm. Open Q&A + Discussion
Zoom Link will be made available to those who RSVP, password will be sent out 24hours prior to the event. Look out for the Email!
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Co-hosted by The Data Lab Scotland, Scotland IS and Opportunity North East
How automation powered by AI will drastically change business
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Re-scheduled: Highlands Data Meet-Up with John Straw; a Data Lab Inverness event
‘How automation powered by AI will drastically change business structure and business processes’
John is a serial technology entrepreneur who has started and sold several businesses - including one to Microsoft.
He is a leading speaker on disruptive innovation and technology and talks in a style which is easy to understand and awe-inspiring, making him a frequent public speaker and prolific author of iDisrupted book and blog.
He is a FTSE100 Non-Executive Director, who possesses a deep understanding of technology disruptors and associated economics.
His current roles include senior advisor to Mckinsey and Co, IBM Watson IoT and his own portfolio of investments. He is a blogger on disruptive technology and a contributor to The Economist on AI.
Data and NetZero - North East Data Meetup, October 2020
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We’re back!
After a short hiatus the Aberdeen Data Science meet-up is returning on the 6th October! This is a new partnership between The Data Lab, ScotlandIS and Opportunity North East. Hitting on a theme of Net Zero and how data is key to achieving that goal we will be hearing from two Scottish companies who are ate the forefront of this: Zoex and Topolytics.
Talk 1 - Zoex
Aslihan Penley, MSc. Chem. entrepreneur, co-founder of ZoeX Power Ltd, had 15 years experience in the Oil&Gas sector before converting her skill set and investments to Renewable Energy. Ash was involved in complex subsea and topsides Oil & Gas installation projects globally. In the recent years, with her passion to advance wave energy sector, she became the Finalist in AccelerateHER, Young Professionals Green Energy Award and nominee for Most Powerful Woman by Powergen Magazine.
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Talk 2 - Topolytics
Michael Groves, CEO, Topolytics
Michael has a background in geography and remote sensing. He worked across South-East Asia auditing sustainable forest management before setting up, then selling, a sustainability reporting consultancy. He then founded Topolytics - a leading data insights business that uses machine learning and geospatial analytics to make the world's waste visible, verifiable and valuable. Topolytics is working with private and public sector organisations worldwide to enhance levels of transparency around the global waste system in order to drive much better outcomes for this material. In 2019, Topolytics was chosen by Google Cloud and SAP as the scaleable technology that can enable the circular economy. The company is also creating a system for the UK Government that will digitally track all waste moved across the country.
Due to COVID the event will be taking place online, but we encourage you to join! Join us at 6pm for an hour of comfortable chat and discussion on the topics raised by our speakers and a catch up with the local data science community in the North East.
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Virtual Networking 6pm. Speakers from 6:15pm.
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Co-hosted by The Data Lab Scotland, Scotland IS and Opportunity North East
We are proud to announce that we will be collaborating with AI Tech North for their 2020 Great Northern Summit, the largest AI community platform in the North UK.
This October, the Great Northern Summit is continuing to lead the AI revolution by assembling leaders, practitioners and enthusiasts from within the industry, allowing them to unify and provide insights on how you can initiate your journey in the digital domain through live-streamed keynote and technical sessions.
In a new world where adaptability reigns supreme, the AI Tech North team have reconstructed last year’s successful event and will be taking up to 4,000 delegates from across the globe on a brand-new Hybrid experience on the 12-13 October.
AI Tech North 2020 will be live streaming internationally, giving attendees the opportunity to meet members from our community as well as representatives from leading Universities and companies such as; Microsoft, IBM, RAFX, and Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) to name a few.
Over 60 industry experts from various magnitudes will be present to share their intuition on a multitude of themes including; Digital Transformation, AI Strategy for Healthcare and Advanced Manufacturing.
There will be an abundance of networking opportunities, allowing delegates to make those all-important connections and chances of 1 to 1 conversation’s with AI specialists to gain a more personal and in-depth Great Northern Summit experience.
So, whether you’re a Business Leader, Technologist or an aspiring AI Professional, these are all the reasons why we think that you should attend!
Come and be a part of the largest AI Community of the North! Get inspired and embrace the new innovation!
Here is an exclusive discount code AITNSDSE20 specially for our Data Science & Technology community members.
And the tickets can be purchased here – https://www.aitechnorth.uk/events/ai-tech-north-2020-northern-ai-summit For more information, check out their summit landing page: https://www.aitechnorth.uk/ai-tech-north-2020
***PLEASE SHARE WITH EVERY 10 - 16 YEAR OLD YOU KNOW*** Get your children, nieces, nephews, friends kids etc involved....
Merkle’s STEM ambassadors are delighted to be hosting a data science workshop for the wider data science community aimed at school pupils aged 10-16.
During our interactive session we will cover different roles within data, with a focus on the role of a data scientist/analyst.
We introduce the concept of data and its forms in a fun and engaging way by relating it back to real life examples such as how TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram use customer data.
One of the three examples we discuss is how companies such as Netflix use data to recommend films/programmes based on an individual’s likes.
Our data scientists are passionate about engaging the next generation and hope you can join us for this session.
Please feel free to forward this invitation on to family/friends/clubs that you think may find this interesting.
If you can’t make this session, but this is something that interests you, please feel free to get in touch with us: stemedn@merkleinc.com
NB. Please note that to accommodate all ages and keep engagement, this session will be high level – we will not be going into technical details of algorithms.
How automation powered by AI will drastically change business
Description changed:
Highlands Data Meet-Up with John Straw; a Data Lab Inverness event
‘How automation powered by AI will drastically change business structure and business processes’
John is a serial technology entrepreneur who has started and sold several businesses - including one to Microsoft.
He is a leading speaker on disruptive innovation and technology and talks in a style which is easy to understand and awe-inspiring, making him a frequent public speaker and prolific author of iDisrupted book and blog.
He is a FTSE100 Non-Executive Director, who possesses a deep understanding of technology disruptors and associated economics.
His current roles include senior advisor to Mckinsey and Co, IBM Watson IoT and his own portfolio of investments. He is a blogger on disruptive technology and a contributor to The Economist on AI.
***PLEASE SHARE WITH EVERY 10 - 16 YEAR OLD YOU KNOW*** Get your children, nieces, nephews, friends kids etc involved....
Merkle’s STEM ambassadors are delighted to be hosting a data science workshop for the wider data science community aimed at school pupils aged 10-16.
During our interactive session we will cover different roles within data, with a focus on the role of a data scientist/analyst.
We introduce the concept of data and its forms in a fun and engaging way by relating it back to real life examples such as how TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram use customer data.
One of the three examples we discuss is how companies such as Netflix use data to recommend films/programmes based on an individual’s likes.
Our data scientists are passionate about engaging the next generation and hope you can join us for this session.
Please feel free to forward this invitation on to family/friends/clubs that you think may find this interesting.
If you can’t make this session, but this is something that interests you, please feel free to get in touch with us: stemedn@merklinc.com
NB. Please note that to accommodate all ages and keep engagement, this session will be high level – we will not be going into technical details of algorithms.
***PLEASE SHARE WITH EVERY 10 - 16 YEAR OLD YOU KNOW*** Get your children, nieces, nephews, friends kids etc involved....
Merkle’s STEM ambassadors are delighted to be hosting a data science workshop for the wider data science community aimed at school pupils aged 10-16.
During our interactive session we will cover different roles within data, with a focus on the role of a data scientist/analyst.
We introduce the concept of data and its forms in a fun and engaging way by relating it back to real life examples such as how TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram use customer data.
One of the three examples we discuss is how companies such as Netflix use data to recommend films/programmes based on an individual’s likes.
Our data scientists are passionate about engaging the next generation and hope you can join us for this session.
Please feel free to forward this invitation on to family/friends/clubs that you think may find this interesting.
If you can’t make this session, but this is something that interests you, please feel free to get in touch with us: stemedn@merklinc.com
NB. Please note that to accommodate all ages and keep engagement, this session will not be high level – we will not be going into technical details of algorithms.
Is your business using your output - Presentation by Martin Thorn (Head of Data Science) - Standard Life Aberdeen - https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-thorn
This event is part of the Scotland Fintech Festival - https://www.fintechscotland.com/scotland-fintech-festival/
In many ways these are the glory days of machine learning. More and more companies are building machine learning capability and every other company statement talks about data being critical to their survival.
There is a downside to this hype and enthusiasm - the need for real, actionable, measurable output. How do you measure the usefulness of machine learning? To me the most obvious answer is - does the business rely on your output?
Highlands Data Meet-up with with Ken Sutherland, Canon Medical Research Europ
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Link will be made available to those who RSVP.
“AI in Medicine: Are Radiologists going to be out of a job?”
Ken Sutherland is a Director of the Board and is responsible for all aspects of the strategic development and operational control of Canon Medical Research Europe. He is a member of Canon Medical Systems Global R&D leadership, and serves as an industry advisor to the Scottish Government on the Life Sciences Industry Leadership Group. He was Chair of the Scottish Lifesciences Association from 2014 to 2018.
Ken returned to Edinburgh in August 2007 to join Canon Medical Research Europe as R&D General Manager, having previously held the post of Operations Director for a European multinational running its imaging R&D facility in Cambridge. He studied Electronics and Computer Science at Edinburgh University and has a PhD in image analysis and four years postdoctoral research experience in medical image analysis.
Insight Through Innovation: Delivering Scalable Data Products With The Latest...
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Insight Through Innovation: Delivering Scalable Data Products With The Latest Cloud Tech
The pace of technological development means that is hard to keep track of the names of the latest data tools and techniques, never mind use them to build robust products that drive value for your business. In this talk we will introduce the concept of Aggreko's "Modern Data Platform", a connected series of cloud technologies and processes which together form our enterprise data product development and deployment environment. We will then share how we use this platform to create both Business Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions which can scale with the needs of the business, while also allowing for future innovations in technology to be incorporated and utilised as they come online. We will conclude with a detailed use case in both the BI and Machine Learning space.
Presenters.
Andy McMahon, Analytics Team Lead: Andy leads a team of data scientists and machine learning engineers who work on advanced analytics solutions for use across the business. The team utilise large scale cloud computing capabilities like Databricks and Azure Delta Lake to deliver bespoke algorithms for complex use cases like predictive maintenance.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andymcmahon629
Graham Morrow, Business Intelligence Manager: Graham’s team of BI developers and analysts deliver operational reporting supporting key business processes, metrics and KPIs to appropriate stakeholders and decision makers. His expertise in BI has helped to drive the reporting capabilities at Aggreko by utilising technologies like Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics.
Harvinder Atwal - Chief Data Officer at Moneysupermarket Group (https://www.linkedin.com/in/harvindersatwal ) – will be talking on the subject of - DataOps: Delivering Agile Data Science.
This presentation will be followed by Q&A from the audience.
Harvinder has recently written a book on the subject - Practical DataOps: Delivering Agile Data Science at Scale
Event details.
Talk Abstract: DataOps: Delivering Agile Data Science. The majority of organisation fail to create business value from their investments in data. Most implementations are either high cost IT projects, local applications that are not built to scale for production workflows or laptop data insight projects that never impact customers. The key to adding value is to adapt and borrow principles from Agile, Lean and Dev Ops. However, Agile Data Science is not just about shipping working machine learning models, but starts with better alignment of data science with the rest of the organisation and its goals.
Bio: Harvinder Atwal leads a team of Data Scientists to deliver data-driven personalisation, develops the Data Strategy to support Advanced Analytics and defines Data Science best practice at MoneySuperMarket. Moneysupermarket.com is the UK’s most visited Price Comparison Website and has one of the largest customer databases in the UK with records for 23 million unique individuals. Harvinder was previously Insight Director for Tesco Clubcard at Dunnhumby and Senior Manager for Customer Strategy and Insights at Lloyds Banking Group. He is passionately interested in Data Science, Machine Learning, Big Data technologies and how they can be used to improve Customer Experience.
Chair - Robin Huggins, Director of Academy and Client Services at MBN Solutions | Data IQ 100 2019 & 2020 - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinhuggins
As Director of Academy & Client Services at MBN Solutions, Rob has spent his career at the sharp end of Talent Acquisition practice for the Data & Technology sectors.
Working as Delivery Partner for The Data Lab's MSc. Placement Programme, he designed and deployed the highly successful Employability framework that has seen over 250 aspirant Data practitioners placed into Scottish organisations over the last 4 years.
Rob sits on The University of Glasgow's School of Maths & Stats Industrial Advisory Board, acts as a Talent Advisor to DMA Scotland, contributes to Scotland’s AI Strategy as a member of the Skills & Knowledge Group and is a regular host, presenter and guest on a variety of Data & Technology related media and events.
Rob has been recognised by Data IQ as one of their 100 most influential Data and Analytics practitioners in UK organisations two years running.
So… join us where we will discuss such issues and learn from each other’s experiences… Bring your own food and drink!
Presenter - Alexey Grigorev - Lead Data Scientist at OLX Group
https://www.linkedin.com/in/agrigorev
Alexey lives in Berlin with his wife and son. He’s a software engineer with a focus on machine learning. He works at OLX Group as a Lead Data Scientist. Alexey is a Kaggle master and he wrote a couple of books. One of them is “Mastering Java for Data Science” and now he’s working on another one — “Machine Learning Bookcamp”.
Chair - Robin Huggins, Director of Academy and Client Services at MBN Solutions | Data IQ 100 2019 & 2020 - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinhuggins
As Director of Academy & Client Services at MBN Solutions, Rob has spent his career at the sharp end of Talent Acquisition practice for the Data & Technology sectors.
Working as Delivery Partner for The Data Lab's MSc. Placement Programme, he designed and deployed the highly successful Employability framework that has seen over 250 aspirant Data practitioners placed into Scottish organisations over the last 4 years.
Rob sits on The University of Glasgow's School of Maths & Stats Industrial Advisory Board, acts as a Talent Advisor to DMA Scotland, contributes to Scotland’s AI Strategy as a member of the Skills & Knowledge Group and is a regular host, presenter and guest on a variety of Data & Technology related media and events.
Rob has been recognised by Data IQ as one of their 100 most influential Data and Analytics practitioners in UK organisations two years running.
Please register here - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qRaGyPhrTDK5yGhDBs3DoQ
Is your business using your output - Martin Thorn (Head of Data Science)
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Is your business using your output - Presentation by Martin Thorn (Head of Data Science) - Standard Life Aberdeen - https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-thorn
This event is part of the Scotland Fintech Festival - https://www.fintechscotland.com/scotland-fintech-festival/
Presenter - Alexey Grigorev - Lead Data Scientist at OLX Group
https://www.linkedin.com/in/agrigorev
Alexey lives in Berlin with his wife and son. He’s a software engineer with a focus on machine learning. He works at OLX Group as a Lead Data Scientist. Alexey is a Kaggle master and he wrote a couple of books. One of them is “Mastering Java for Data Science” and now he’s working on another one — “Machine Learning Bookcamp”.
Please register here - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qRaGyPhrTDK5yGhDBs3DoQ
The “Art and Science” of Analytics and Data Science: We should all be like Leonardo
Point of the talk: This is drawn primarily from experiences in the domain of customer insight and customer experience. We think of analytics mainly as a hard ‘science’ but there is a growing importance to consider some more intangible sides to analytics: why do customers think the way they do (e.g. behavioural economics), why do stakeholders make decisions the way they do (e.g. influencing senior decision-makers)?
• What are some areas where the ‘art of analytics’ is often underplayed?
• What are some areas where the ‘science of persuasion’ is often underused?
• How can these be melded in interesting ways?
• Why do many firms fail to do this?
• What could you do about this in your teams / careers?
Presenter - Nick Hall - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-hall-3a2a5
For the last 6 years Nick has led the Barclays Analytics Centre of Excellence – a team of 140+ analytics and data science professionals who use analytics to grow the Barclays retail and business banking franchise as well as build data products derived from the bank’s transactional data.
He started life as a geek, when it was much less cool: pre-web and practically pre-PC. He spent 6 years at IBM and then 16 years as a strategy consultant building and deploying data capabilities for clients in financial services and the consumer goods sector (mainly beer). His focus was on analysing customer-level behaviour data and blending this with research-based insights – to grow revenues, manage for value, manage risk or optimise capital use.
Both his personal and professional interest now is in pursuing his ‘geeky origins’ and helping businesses drive more commercial and strategic value out of their data through the application of data science, AI, human creativity and managing the business decision-making process.
This event is part of Scotland Fintech Festival - https://www.fintechscotland.com/scotland-fintech-festival/
The “Art and Science” of Analytics & Data Science:We should all be like Leonardo
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The “Art and Science” of Analytics and Data Science: We should all be like Leonardo
Point of the talk: This is drawn primarily from experiences in the domain of customer insight and customer experience. We think of analytics mainly as a hard ‘science’ but there is a growing importance to consider some more intangible sides to analytics: why do customers think the way they do (e.g. behavioural economics), why do stakeholders make decisions the way they do (e.g. influencing senior decision-makers)?
• What are some areas where the ‘art of analytics’ is often underplayed?
• What are some areas where the ‘science of persuasion’ is often underused?
• How can these be melded in interesting ways?
• Why do many firms fail to do this?
• What could you do about this in your teams / careers?
Presenter - Nick Hall - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-hall-3a2a5
For the last 6 years Nick has led the Barclays Analytics Centre of Excellence – a team of 140+ analytics and data science professionals who use analytics to grow the Barclays retail and business banking franchise as well as build data products derived from the bank’s transactional data.
He started life as a geek, when it was much less cool: pre-web and practically pre-PC. He spent 6 years at IBM and then 16 years as a strategy consultant building and deploying data capabilities for clients in financial services and the consumer goods sector (mainly beer). His focus was on analysing customer-level behaviour data and blending this with research-based insights – to grow revenues, manage for value, manage risk or optimise capital use.
Both his personal and professional interest now is in pursuing his ‘geeky origins’ and helping businesses drive more commercial and strategic value out of their data through the application of data science, AI, human creativity and managing the business decision-making process.
Link will be made available to those who RSVP.
Password for this event is: meetup
We will be welcoming a trio of speakers from LifeScan Scotland on the data life cycle in the medical device Industry.
LifeScan Scotland has more than 35 years continuously moved diabetes care forward through advancing technologies and developing products defined by simplicity, accuracy and trust. From OneTouch® brand blood glucose meters, test strips, and lancets to integrated digital systems, therapeutics, and hospital point-of-care systems, LifeScan is committed to offering best-in-class products and technology-driven solutions.
◆ The Lifecycle of SMBG Customer Data – David Mccoll, Staff Scientist and Andrew Finlayson, Principal Engineer
◆ Predicting Product Performance in the hands of the customer – Jeffrey Rodger, Staff Statistician
◆ The Manufacturing Data Map - David Morris, Staff Scientist Manufacturing Engineering
For many data scientists, the thrill and excitement of joining a start-up is what they have worked towards for much of their life to date. However, for others, the challenges of plying their trade in the context of a corporate strategy is regarded as even more fulfilling in that opportunities exist:
§ to deepen domain expertise
§ solve complex business problems
§ Create broad value to household name organisations
In some cases, such opportunities may not be mutually exclusive so join us on the 25th June at 12pm GMT for a discussion on the differences between deployment of data scientists in differing business models and what it means at a personal level for:
§ Career development and job satisfaction
§ Development of deeper data skill and domain expertise
§ Cultural differences and challenges that ensue
§ How to make the best of your career choices
Event Chair:
Paul Forrest, Chairman at MBN Solutions - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pdf66
Panel:
Jedidiah Frances - CEO of Jed.ai -https://www.linkedin.com/in/jedidiah-francis
Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe - Lead Data Scientist at Popsa & Visiting Researcher at the Alan Turing Institute - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chanukiseresinhe
Ben Taylor - Chief AI Evangelist at DataRobot - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bentaylordata
Vicky Byrom - Head of Analytics at Aquila Insight - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicky-byrom-00270582
Adding Commercial Value with Analytics and Data Science: Are you selling......
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Adding Commercial Value with Analytics and Data Science: Are you selling buckets or mining gold?
Point of the talk: Whether you are running an analytics function, acting as a consultant / contractor or an individual data science professional – chances are you need to be adding commercial value with your analytics. But, just like in the California gold-rush – you can make money (add-value) by panning for gold, or you can make a good living selling buckets and shovels. Too often analytics gets side-tracked into providing models, dashboards, datasets etc. instead of monetizable insights. Why is this and how do you avoid it?
Key points covered:
• The importance of adding value through analytics
• Recognising the distinction of actually uncovering valuable insights (mining gold) versus building tools to help others do that (selling buckets)?
• Why it is so easy to get caught up in the “buckets business”?
• Why can it be dangerous / self-defeating (some war stories)?
• What can you do to ensure you are genuinely “mining for gold”?
Presenter - Nick Hall - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-hall-3a2a5
For the last 6 years he has led the Barclays Analytics Centre of Excellence – a team of 140+ analytics and data science professionals who use analytics to grow the Barclays retail and business banking franchise as well as build data products derived from the bank’s transactional data.
He started life as a geek, when it was much less cool: pre-web and practically pre-PC. He spent 6 years at IBM and then 16 years as a strategy consultant building and deploying data capabilities for clients in financial services and the consumer goods sector (mainly beer). His focus was on analysing customer-level behaviour data and blending this with research-based insights – to grow revenues, manage for value, manage risk or optimise capital use.
Both his personal and professional interest now is in pursuing his ‘geeky origins’ and helping businesses drive more commercial and strategic value out of their data through the application of data science, AI, human creativity and managing the business decision-making process.
A Full-Stack Data Scientist - What is it and how to become one
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Presenter - Alexey Grigorev - Lead Data Scientist at OLX Group
https://www.linkedin.com/in/agrigorev
Alexey lives in Berlin with his wife and son. He’s a software engineer with a focus on machine learning. He works at OLX Group as a Lead Data Scientist. Alexey is a Kaggle master and he wrote a couple of books. One of them is “Mastering Java for Data Science” and now he’s working on another one — “Machine Learning Bookcamp”.
Chair - Paul Forrest - Chairman @ MBN Solutions
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pdf66
Paul has some twenty-five years experience of helping businesses to solve complex business problems, deliver their transformation goals and to achieve tangible strategic outcomes.
Hands on and deep thinking, he has worked with many FTSE 100 clients, Global 500 businesses and major Government entities around the world including Ford Motor Company, VAG Group, BAE Systems, GSK, AkzoNobel, RBS, HBOS, Diageo, Bacardi, Wal-Mart, British Airways, Virgin Galactic, Etisalat, British Telecom, Vodafone and Allen & Overy.
Paul also sits on the board of a number of agile, disruptive and challenger businesses whilst supporting value creation programmes for Private Equity backed businesses.
Please register here - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qRaGyPhrTDK5yGhDBs3DoQ
Highlands Data Meet-up with LifeScan Scotland, Inverness
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We will be welcoming a trio of speakers from LifeScan Scotland on the data life cycle in the medical device Industry.
LifeScan Scotland has more than 35 years continuously moved diabetes care forward through advancing technologies and developing products defined by simplicity, accuracy and trust. From OneTouch® brand blood glucose meters, test strips, and lancets to integrated digital systems, therapeutics, and hospital point-of-care systems, LifeScan is committed to offering best-in-class products and technology-driven solutions.
◆ The Lifecycle of SMBG Customer Data – David Mccoll, Staff Scientist and Andrew Finlayson, Principal Engineer
◆ Predicting Product Performance in the hands of the customer – Jeffrey Rodger, Staff Statistician
◆ The Manufacturing Data Map - David Morris, Staff Scientist Manufacturing Engineering
Link to join the event will be posted closer to the date.
Overcoming the challenges of data science deployment
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Overcoming the challenges of data science deployment
In this webinar, Bellrock Technology Product Manager, Dr. David Bell, discusses how to overcome the challenges of data science deployment.
With 4 out 5 data science projects failing to make it into production, deployment is a key issue for the industry and will be a key area to generate ROI and unlock future investments across pretty much every market sector.
Spoiler alert! Deploying data science is hard.
Organisations have data siloed across a wide range of sources with a varied range of quality and accessibility. The models created are increasingly complex and written in languages that are unknown to many IT professionals (who have their day to day challenges). Then, to compound the pain, business users have exceptionally high levels of expectations for strong visualisations and real time insights delivered to their platforms of choice.
It is little wonder that Data Scientists end up spending most of their time piecing all of this together rather than doing what they are good at, building models for your organisation.
During this session David will discuss:
• Why is Data Science deployment so hard
• Expectations vs reality
• Overcoming the 5 main challenges
• What could a solution look like
Dr. David Bell, Product Manager, Bellrock Technology
David Bell has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and is the Product Manager with Bellrock Technology. Having spent years developing and delivering data driven solutions in both academic and industrial contexts, he is now leveraging that experience to drive forward the product vision for Lumen, Bellrock Technology's intelligent deployment platform.
Bellrock Technology
Bellrock Technology is a software company based in Glasgow. The company was founded to help large organisations become data-driven. Our customers deploy their models utilising their live and static data to deliver maximum business value to their companies.
Bellrock Technology developed Lumen®, the world’s most advanced analytics deployment platform, in order to instantly turn trained data science models into live, useful data analytics. Its patented technology removes traditional integration and deployment challenges, automatically creating complex data-pipelines and making results immediately available to end users.
VIRTUAL EVENT: Why Collaboration is at the heart of Success in Data Science
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Join us as we partner with MBN and GFK on 23rd April at 6pm GMT to bring you a virtual event where we explore the topic ‘Why Collaboration is at the Heart of Success in Data Science’.
EVENT INFO:
As Data Science continues to become a focus for an increasing number of enterprises, many organisations are realising just how expansive the subject is and the critical dependency on alignment with other new and emerging technologies and systems such as machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Clearly, such activities depend upon talent to ensure full potential is achieved. Many enterprises underestimate the importance of having the right people and skills in place to maximise the prospects on offer. But this is only the start. Beyond such skills and technologies, a real cultural shift must be achieved. Collaboration is at the heart of this shift.
Strategy, Data Engineering, Product Development, Statistical Modelling and Data Science require a string team-based ethic matched with aligned goals, shared vision and delivery excellence to deliver outcomes that matter.
Due to the current circumstances with COVID-19 and postponing the original event to be held in London, we have decided to reschedule and hold a Virtual event. We hope you can join us on Zoom!
Speakers:
Dr. Markus Ziegler, Head of Data Science at GfK - https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-ziegler-1b540743
Yu Fu, Principal in Global Data Science Team at GfK
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yu-fu-11630716
Jan Teichmann, Senior Data Science Consultant at Trainline
https://www.linkedin.com/in/janteichmann
Chair:
Paul Forrest, Chairman at MBN Solutions
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pdf66
AGENDA:
6pm-6.10pm: Introduction – Paul Forrest, Chairman at MBN Solutions
6.10pm-6.40pm: Presentation and Q&A – Dr. Markus Ziegler, Head of Data Science and Yu Fu, Principal in Global Data Science Team at GfK
6.40pm-7.10pm: Presentation and Q&A – Jan Teichmann, Senior Data Science Consultant at Trainline
7.10pm.-8.00pm: Q&A
See full details here -
https://www.mbnsolutions.com/event/virtual-event-why-collaboration-is-at-the-heart-of-success-in-data-science/
Please REGISTER here - https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QqqQL45_SPeyjr34aCcxtQ
UPDATE - This meetup will be going ahead however we will be running a live stream webinar instead.
Speaker 1
Colin Gray, Data Scientist, TIBCO
Colin Gray is a data scientist working for TIBCO within their global data science team. As part of TIBCO's partnership with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One, Colin plays an active role working with the team and TIBCO's own Formula 1 simulator. In general, his career in data analytics, modelling and data science has spanned over 20 years having worked in multiple industries. Most recently this included being the lead data scientist for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency prior to joining TIBCO. He has a real passion for bringing analytics and data science to a wider audience and making it as accessible as possible.
Talk summary:
Data Science is having an increasing impact in sports. TIBCO actively supports teams such as Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One, TIBCO-Silicon Valley Women’s cycling and the NFL. In this talk we cover our partnership with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team as well as demonstrate with our own Formula One simulator how TIBCO technologies are used to analyse lap performance, predict lap times and the likelihood of a crash occurrence. We will give live demonstrations of the data science we use, as well as discuss the full data science life cycle from how we analyse lap data from our simulator, to building models, model deployment and taking action from the findings.
POSTPONED Data Trusts and Data Viz - Aberdeen Apr 2020 Data Meetup
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We've been informed that ONE Tech Hub, our venue are closing Studios One and Two until the end of April 2020.
This event will not go ahead on the planned date. We're looking at options such as running it at the May date, assuming we get an all clear for then. We will announce that ASAP.
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This will be a joint event with the Project Data Analytics group who are now running their own meet-ups in Aberdeen
Pizza, beer and networking 6.30pm. Speakers from 7pm.
Talk 1 - "Can we reinvent how we deliver projects by leveraging data?" - Stephen Ashley / Andrew Buchan and Martin Paver
Imagine a future where we can securely pool project delivery data for the benefit of all. Where we reduce the barriers to entry for innovators. Where we begin to value the hard won experience that is codified in data and facilitate access to data to help drive AI based insights. The Oil and Gas Authority, Oil and Gas Technology Centre and Projecting Success will be sharing some insights into the pioneering work that they have been doing on an oil and gas project analytics data trust and their efforts to make this vision a reality. They will also provide an update on parallel work that is being conducted within the construction sector. If successful, it could facilitate a transformation in how we deliver projects, from new installations through to decommissioning.
Stephen Ashley is Digital Solution Centre Manager at the Oil and Gas Technology Centre
Andrew Buchan is Senior Project Advisor at the Oil and Gas Authority
Martin Paver is CEO of Projecting Success, an SME with a passion for using data to transform how we deliver projects.
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Talk 2 - Lesley-Anne Kelly "The good, the bad, and the 3D pie chart" - a look at how good data visualisation can tell complex stories and how some miss the mark altogether. Lesley-Anne will talk through her favourites and least favourites and some in the blurred lines in between.
Lesley-Anne self-describes as a Weegie who landed in Dundee half a lifetime ago. She is the only data journalist and biggest nerd at The Courier and the Press and Journal newspapers.
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Thanks to MBN Solutions, Data Lab Scotland and Scotland IS for sponsoring this event.
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