Introduction talk for the Inaugural Meetup of Data Science Milan

1. Data Science Milan
Inaugural Talk
Gianmario Spacagna
19/05/2016

2. About me @gm_spacagna
• Background in Telecommunications and Distributed Systems
• (University of Cassino, Polytechnic of Turin, KTH of Stockholm)
• Experience in a few industries:
• Predictive Marketing (AgilOne, StreamSend)
• Social/Travel (Random Break)
• Cyber Security (Cisco)
• Financial Services (Barclays)
• Automotive (Pirelli)
• Areas of interest
• Building production-ready and scalable machine learning systems
• Functional Programming, Scala and Apache Spark
(check out sparkz on github)
• Contributor of the Professional Data Science Manifesto
(www.datasciencemanifesto.org)
• Organizing events and meet-ups 

3. About us
• 159 members on meetup
• 79 on LinkedIn
• Community of Data
Scientists, practitioners
and enthusiasts based in
the Milan area
• No profit, open group
• Goal:
• Discuss and promote data-
driven innovation
• Collaboration and sharing
of knowledge

4. Partnerships
• Diego Liberati, host
• , Big Data consultancy start-up
• Milan High Tech Meetup group
(www.meetup.com/Milan-High-Tech-Meetup)

5. Background and Interests Survey
• 80 responses so far, pretty good!
• http://goo.gl/forms/3xvJMX4KvO
• Most popular:
• Role: Data Scientist, Developer, Student/PhD, Data
Engineer
• Experience: mid-senior, junior, student/intern
• Languages: Python, R, Java, C, Matlab, Scala
• Technologies SQL/RDBMS, Notebooks, viz libs, Spark,
Hadoop
• More predictive analytics than descriptive
• Topics: Machine Learning & Deep Learning, Production
use-cases, Functional Programming, Streaming, NLP
• Summary will be available soon…

6. #datasciencemilan
• If you haven’t done yet, remember to join us on
http://www.meetup.com/Data-Science-Milan/
And our LinkedIn group:
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8497363