Overview: IWD - Data mini-Conference
In partnership with Dublin R User Group, Women in R Taskforce, Women Who Code Dublin and Dublin Data Science for Beginners, we are delighted to announce our Data mini-conference kindly hosted by Dogpatch Labs in celebration of International Women's Day week. There will be talks and workshops.
- Organiser
- Vicky Twomey-Lee
- Mentor(s)
- Vicky Twomey-Lee , Kevin O'Brien
- Level
- Beginners
- Pre-requisites
- 👇 See FAQ for additional info
- Price
- Free
- Location
- The Vaults, Dogpatch Labs, CHQ, IFSC, D1 Dublin, Ireland
- When
- Sat Mar 12, 2016 (10:00) - Sat Mar 12, 2016 (16:00)
More info IWD - Data mini-Conference
In partnership with Dublin R User Group, Women in R Taskforce, Women Who Code Dublin and Dublin Data Science for Beginners, we are delighted to announce our Data mini-conference kindly hosted by Dogpatch Labs in celebration of International Women's Day week. There will be talks and workshops.
In partnership with:-
- Dublin R User Group
- Women in R Taskforce
- Women Who Code Dublin
- Dublin Data Science for Beginners
- More to follow...
We are delighted to announce our Data mini-conference kindly hosted by Dogpatch Labs in celebration of International Women's Day week. There will be talks and workshops, so bring along your laptops for a date of learning and sharing.
Call for Speakers/Mentors
If you are interested in speaking, running a workshop or mentoring, please submit your interest via http://bit.ly/iwd16-cfp-data.
Sponsorship
If your company is interested in sponsoring our event to cover food and drink, drop us an email via contact@codinggrace.com.
Schedule
| Time | Events Room | Flexi Room 2 | Flexi Room 3 |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | REGISTRATION | ||
| 10:30 - 10:35 | Welcome - Plenary | ||
| 10:35 - 11:05 | Talk 1 - Introduction to data science by Ana Peleteiro (Zalando) | Tableau Workshop (1 hour) | |
| 11:05 - 11:35 | Talk 2 - Data Science Challenges for Online Advertising by Matina Thomaidou | Tableau Workshop (contd) | |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Talk 3 - UX for DataMining - How to turn data into insight by Egle Venclovaite (Nitro) | Intro to ggplot2 Workshop (1h) | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Talk 4 - 10(ish) Useful R Packages by Mick Cooney | Intro to ggplot2 Workshop (contd) | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Talk 5 - Data Analytics & Banking by Aoife Nic Aonghusa | Data analytics with Rapidminer Workshop (~1.5h) | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Data analytics with Rapidminer Workshop (contd) | Intro to R Workshop | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK |
| 15:30 - 15:55 | Data analytics with Rapidminer Workshop (contd) | Intro to R Workshop (contd) | |
| 15:55 - 16:00 | Closing | ||
| 16:00 | Event Ends | Event Ends |
More Details to follow...
Frequently asked questions
- Additional info for this workshop
Q. What should I bring for the "Tableau" workshop?
- Bring your laptop
- Tableau Public installed - https://public.tableau.com/s/download
Q. What should I bring for the "Intro to ggplot2" / R workshop?
- Bring your laptop.
- A working web browser, e.g. Chrome.
- We will be working with Jupyter Notebooks - try.jupyter.org
- Install the latest version of R - https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/
- Install the latest version of RStudio -https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
- ggplot2 - Graphing package implemented on top of the R statistical package - http://ggplot2.org/
Q. What should I bring to the "RapidMiner Workshop"?
- Bring a laptop
- Have Rapidminer starter edition installed, available free from: (https://rapidminer.com/products/comparison/). Its needs a Java JRE.
- Here's some info about our awesome mentor(s).
- 🌈 Vicky Twomey-Lee
Pythonista, but normally found organising various tech events, and now heavily involved in diversity initiatives like Coding Grace, PyLadies Dublin, and Women in Technology and Science (WITS Ireland).
- 🌈 Kevin O'Brien
PhD Candidate in Statistics, who has been teaching R in the university of Limerick for 4 years. Also an organizer of the Dublin R user group ,with specific responsibility for workshops.
- Q. A lot of our events are female-friendly events, we have enquiries asking if other genders are welcome as well?
- YES. You are welcome. Events we run or partner in are diversity friendly. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at contact@codinggrace.com.
- More info about our supporters
- Dogpatch Labs -
Dogpatch Labs is dedicated to supporting entrepreneurship and a culture of innovation, and provides a foundation for start-ups go to grow and scale and is crucial for supporting the continued growth of early stage innovation in Ireland.- Silicon Republic -
Since going online in 2001, Siliconrepublic.com has gone from being Ireland’s No 1 resource for technology news, with countless awards to its name, to one of the leading online publications in Europe with over half-a-million pageviews each month and growing. We have become the ‘go to’ destination for those seeking to be informed on all things tech and innovation in Ireland, Europe and further afield. Inspirefest 2016 is a two day international event that connects professionals interested in the future of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics with new perspectives on innovation, leadership and success. Plus unique networking at our exciting Fringe Festival taking place from 30 June - 2 July, 2016. Details: [http://inspirefest.com/](inspirefest.com)- Zalando -
Zalando is Europe’s leading online fashion platform, with more than 16 million customers in 15 countries. Our department has built most of our platform in-house, using open source and cutting-edge technologies such as Scala, Cassandra, Clojure, and React.js. We work in small, agile, autonomous teams and follow principles that enable us to produce the most delightful shopping experiences possible.- Nitro -
Nitro is changing the way the world works with documents. From small businesses to large, global enterprises, Nitro gives teams of all sizes the power to create, convert, edit, sign and collaborate with ease. Nitro is committed to giving knowledge workers a smarter way to PDF while dramatically accelerating productivity, efficiency, and sustainability across the organization. Over 575,000 businesses trust Nitro every day, including over 50% of the Fortune 500. Discover how to work smarter and do more with your documents at [gonitro.com](https://www.gonitro.com/).
- More about the organiser
- Vicky Twomey-Lee
- Pythonista, but normally found organising various tech events, and now heavily involved in diversity initiatives like Coding Grace, PyLadies Dublin, and Women in Technology and Science (WITS Ireland).You can contact the organiser at: vicky@codinggrace.com
- If you have any other general questions:
- Email: contact@codinggrace.com
🌈 A huge thanks to our supporter(s) and partner(s) 🌈
