Big Data LDN Meetup: Why we defined a metalanguage for SQL

SQL adoption is growing quickly thanks to modern SQL warehouses and SQL technologies, enabling teams to do more and more with their data without having to write and maintain imperative code. Despite this, SQL still has many limitations which make it hard to adopt software engineering best practices such as...

Meetup: Revving up with Reinforcement Learning

In this talk you will hear about what reinforcement learning is and how we are using a small 1/18 scale car, the AWS Cloud and some good old fashion competition to generate interest in this field and help accelerate knowledge and learning. Speaker: Ricardo Sueiras, Technical Evangelist, AWS. Meetup date:...

Data Science Skills & Careers – Launch of the Nurture Programme

DATA SCIENCE AT ING

Speaker: Bas Geerdink, IT Manager, Fast Data Analytics, ING Bank

Which programming language should you learn?

Like any other career, choosing to enter the world of machine learning or data science requires a very particular set of skills. In the case of data science, knowing how to code in a particular language could open up the doors to many opportunities. However, many programmers working in the...

Artificial intelligence for data science

In the world of IT and computer science developments are speeding up rapidly. True artificial intelligence is the next step that those in the field are progressing towards and data science could both support the aim and benefit from the development. What’s data science? Data science is the processes and...

Hiring a data scientist, what should you look for?

Data science is the process of extracting knowledge or insights from data. As businesses gather more data from various sources there is becoming a growing demand for data scientists to allow businesses to utilise the information they are gathering but finding the right one in a competitive industry can be...