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Upcoming Events Online
Avoiding Data Pitfalls
May 26th, 2021, at 12:00 PM PST
Join us on May 26th at 12:00 PM PST for a virtual chat with Ben Jones: Ben is the co-founder and CEO of Data Literacy. Ben is a highly experienced and passionate instructor, having taught data to thousands in a corporate training environment as well as in academic classroom settings (University of Washington). He’s going to tell us all about data pitfalls.
understand your users, optimize your user growth
May 7th, 2021, at 4:30 PM PST
Join us on May 7th at 4:30 PM PST for a virtual chat with Ali Narimani. Ali is a super focussed data scientist at Twitter and specializes in user-growth optimization. In his talk, Ali will teach us all about revenue modeling and user-growth using data science!
Past Events
How to Measure the Intrinsic Value of your Target Audience
March 11, 2021, at 12:00 PM PST
Join us on March 11 at 12pm (pst) for a virtual chat with Michael Schneider. Michael is a laser focussed data scientist at Spotify and he specializes in retention optimization. In his talk, Michael will teach us all about attribution!
The Art & Science of Growth
February 24, 2021, at 10:00 AM PST
Join us a conversation with Lloyed Lobo, Co-founder & President of R&D tax credit software Boast.AI, which helps innovative companies fund their product development without giving up equity and dealing with paperwork.
Notebooks to Improve Data Collaboration
February 4, 2021 at 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM PST
Join us for a look at how notebooks can improve the ways your business analyses and shares data across the organization. In this event, we will learn about the challenge of dashboard reports and why it is limiting teams in their decision-making process and how to use data notebooks to increase productivity!
Top stories from a content strategist
January 13, 2021 at 11:30 AM to 12:15 PM PST
Join us for a virtual fireside chat with Kate Strachnyi, a data analyst, trainer, podcaster, and successful conference organizer who through her first conference in October drew over 7000 registrants and almost 30,000 viewers.
Harnessing the Power of Data in Retail
January 30, 2020, 6:00 PM PST
Before you can apply science to data to you need a way to collect and share data across channels and applications. For many, data is the lifeblood of the organization, especially retail where you’re dealing with multiple marketing and sales channels as well as a multitude of applications. Understanding customer behaviour is critical.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) Use Cases
June 26, 2019, 6:15 PM PST
Natural Language Processing (NLP) has profound value for businesses. It allows a company to gain insights and actions based on unstructured data (mostly text) that the business collects and with recent progress in NLP+ML combined with available computation power, companies can tackle problems that were impossible a decade ago.
Improving Data Quality Through ETL Automation
May 30, 2019, 6:15 PM PST
Join George Firican, Director of Data Governance & Business Intelligence at UBC and Marcus Wong, Customer Success Manager at Keboola (www.keboola.com) to discuss the importance of data quality & governance and how ETL automation can help improve data quality, workflow efficiencies and increase user trust.
Building A Data Team
April 23, 2019 6:15 PM PST
Building a team is challenging at the best of times. Trying to build a team of data experts can be fraught with challenges, especially with so many businesses battling over a small (but growing) talent pool. In fact, it can get downright ugly if you don’t have the right framework, policies, and infrastructure in place.
February 26, 2019, 6:00 PM PST
Whether your company is just starting your own data journey or trying to break out of the Data Wheel of Death (https://brianbalfour.com/essays/growth-data-mistakes), hiring the right person in the right role (data scientist, data analyst or data engineer/architect) at the right time is critical to unlocking value from your data.
AI and Ethics
November 20, 2018, 6:00 PM PST
Join Holly Peck (Research Scientist at Sanctuary.ai & Founder at Women Who Code), Shalaleh Rismani (Chief Innovation Officer and Systems Analyst at Generation R Consulting) and Luke Starbuck (Vice President Marketing at Linc Global) for a fireside chat to discuss the world of AI and the potential ethical risks it poses for society.
October 16, 2018, 6:00 PM PDT
Join Arul Bharathi for a look at the application of data science in eCommerce and how data science disrupts this industry in terms of consumer behaviour and experience. The session will cover …
Exploring Data Science Use Cases in Banking
February 27, 2018, 6:00 PM PST
Join our guest speakers, Monique Morden and Arul Bharathi, for a look at the application of data science in the Banking and Financial Sector (BFS). In this session our speakers will cover …
January 30, 2018, 6:00 PM PST
With the growth and ease of use of new tools to extract, wrangle and visualize data the opportunities to expose insights from once disparate data sources are now more achievable than ever. Whether it’s creating the ETL process, writing machine learning models or uncovering specific insights, opportunities for data junkies and more specifically data scientists are everywhere. Yet finding the right role for a data scientist that actually takes advantage of her skill set may be more elusive than finding a unicorn who performs miracles.