The speaker will share their experience on how to foster Data Science within local communities across the globe, and how they can consistently develop world’s leading expertise in Data Science. These local communities are all enthusiasm-driven, with core value as the free open scientific and engineering knowledge for everyone. In particular, the speaker will talk about different types of events one can setup, beyond traditional meetups. One such event series called ml trainings help them regularly beat everyone on kaggle: 15 members of Open Data Science are in kaggle’s top-100. Science, Drinking, Rock-n-roll.

1. Beyond traditional scientific communities

2. ИНФОРМАЦИЯ
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DM Labs
Alex Natekin

4. ML in bioinformatics
Recommender systems
Multi-armed bandits
Competitive ML
Gradient Boosting, Stacking
University ML labs
Robotics and RL
Computer vision
Deep Learning
CRM analytics
Churn/retention prediction

5. Community Guild
★ Shares knowledge and expertise
★ Promotes innovation and discovery
★ Unites people even from rivalling institutions
★ Creates

7. DSML community
development
Research and
discovery hub
Events to grow and
facilitate

9. Sample beginning

10. Moscow
Saint-Petersburg Minsk
Kyiv

15. [competitive]
Study groups
formality
# participants10 30 100 300 600 1800
data
breakfasts
DS
meetup
DL, R,
pydata,
hadoop
meetups
Rare
Often
Regular
Event frequency:
summer ML
schools
ML trainings
DL, R,
pydata,
hadoop
meetups
Data Fest

19. ★ Unite
★ Create
★ Share
★ Teach and learn
Summary

20. ★ Today:
Networking (we desperately need unconferences)
★ Thursdays:
Data breakfasts Tbilisi, 9 AM, venue …
★ Saturdays:
ML trainings livestream: winning kaggle
Summary Next steps

21. ods.ai
@natekin
alex.natekin@dmlabs.org
Thank you!