Our mission is to educate, inspire and empower scholars and professionals to apply data sciences to address humanity’s grand challenges. We are the fastest growing community of data scientists in Europe. We love doing Data4Good. We promote the value of analytics and organise events, hands-on sessions and trainings to close the gap between academics and business. Join us if you want to share, learn and have fun with analytical & technological innovation & positive social change. Our members all want to contribute with their professional skills to make a positive impact on our local community or in the world, they are all aware that data based decision making is key to boost the performances of our organisations. We are an open community and everybody with an interest in data and business is welcome. Our members are University professors, managers in public or private organisations, leaders of NGO’s, Phd students, analytic consultants, technical bigdata experts …

1. Data Science
In the Telecom Industry
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2. Our mission is
to educate, inspire,
empower scholars and
professionals
to apply big data
science
to address humanity’s
grand challenges.
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3. Some details about us:
 782 meetup group members
 1870 @datasciencebe twitter followers
 193 facebook page likes
 597 linkedin group members
 2,6k visitors & 5,8k views on www.datasciencebe.com
 6 more meetups scheduled before the summer
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Philippe Van Impe
Social Entrepreneur & Community builder.
Bigdata & Datascience Startup coach.
Driver of the Brussels Data Science Community
pvanimpe@gmail.com
@pvanimpe | 477/ 23.75.42

4. Sharing & Learning by doing data4good projects
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• Monthly #datascience Meetups
• Hackathons for Good
• Hands-On Trainings
• Mooc coaching
• 12w Data Science Boot Camp
• Resource matching
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9. “The ability to take data - to be
able to understand it, to process
it, to extract value from it, to
visualize it, to communicate it is
going to be a hugely important
skill in the next decades.”
Hal Varian - Chief Economist Google
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10. Update
• Challenges
• Mooc Coaching
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Hendrik D'Oosterlinck
hendrik@foodpairing.com
Edward Vanden Berghe
Marine biodiversity, data science
evberghe@gmail.com

11. New job posts since our last Meetup
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• More jobs here
• How to benefit from free job posting
• Review of the Top 5 job post in 2015
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12. Upcoming events
February
• February 19 18:30 to 21:30 – Meetup – DataScience & Telecom – Brussels
• February 24 – Training – Infofarm – Data Science and Machine Learning in Big Data:
• February 25 – Meetup – Bigdata.be – 28th meetup – AWS and Big Data
March
• March 2 & 3 – Training – Infofarm – Science Track (math behind data science and data science process )
• March 4 18:30 – Luxembourg Data Science Meetup -Luxembourg
• March 5 13:00 – Seminar – MathWorks – Data analytics with Matlab in a big data world – Leuven
• March 10, 11 – Summit – Bigdata PARIS
• March 11 18:30 – Graph Meetup – Briefing on Neo4j 2.2 with Dr. Jim Webber, Chief Scientist at Neo Technology
• March 17 18:30 – MongoDB Belgium meetup – Anniversary edition! – Brussels
• March 18 9:00 to 12:00 – Event – Infofarm – DataScience – Antwerp
• March 19 – Hands-On Training – Datastax – Apache Cassandra Essentials Day – Hilversum
• March 26 9:00 to 18:00 – Data Innovation Summit – Brussels
• March 26 16:00 to 20:00 – 8ste BI congres van het BICC-Thomas More – Mechelen
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More events here
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Next Meetup

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15. Agenda – Data Science & Telecom
Jan Sonck - Head of Enterprise Innovation @ Proximus
How do we use Data Science in a Telecom Operator?
Example of external use cases: which business question, which data? What about privacy concerns?
Renaud Lambiotte - Assistant Professor @ FUNDP
Social networks, from Granovetter to Zuckerberg
Wim Hellemans - Head of Knowledge @ Real Impact Analytics
How to convert Telecom data into insights?
What are the benefits and challenges of processing telecom data.
21h00: Open Sessions
Attendants are invited on the spot to share in a few minutes interesting DataScience issues they
have encountered in the last month. Recent startups, other meetup groups and teamleaders recruiting
are welcome to do their pitch.
21h30: Networking @ KultuurKaffee
Moderator: Gautier Krings - Head of Research @ Real Impact Analytics
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