Wednesday, 04 July 2018 at 16:30 · SAST
PTA - Something Something Data Science, Neural Computing, Lean Coffee Discussion
Data science is all over the news. The job of data scientist is said to be one of the fastest growing jobs. But what is data science? Is it just another name for Business Intelligence? And how does “Big Data” fit into the picture. In this talk, I’ll take your through what Data Science is, and what it is not, and then we’ll try and solve some simple Data Science-type problems in R, Python and…
In the room
- Lean coffee and networking
The speakers
Rishal Hurbans
Gail Shaw
-Intro =News in AI, local events, and info about the AI ZA community. By Rishal Hurbans(https://twitter.com/RishalHurbans)
-Main Talk =Something, Something, Data Science Data science is all over the news. The job of data scientist is said to be one of the fastest growing jobs. But what is data science? Is it just another name for Business Intelligence? And how does “Big Data” fit into the picture. In this talk, I’ll take your through what Data Science is, and what it is not, and then we’ll try and solve some simple Data Science-type problems in R, Python and Azure Machine learning. Simple problems, like image recognition and fraud detection. By Gail Shaw(https://twitter.com/SQLintheWild)
-Lightning Talk =Neural Compute Hardware A technical focused talk on frameworks for developing AI and how specialised hardware can be used to speed up computation. By Rishal Hurbans(https://twitter.com/RishalHurbans)
-Lean Coffee Style AI Discussion A lean coffee style discussion where we chat about anything and everything related to AI. By Rishal Hurbans http://rhurbans.com