Data Science MilanInaugural TalkGianmario Spacagna19/05/2016

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

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

Partnerships

• Diego Liberati, host

• , Big Data consultancy start-up

• Milan High Tech Meetup group(www.meetup.com/Milan-High-Tech-Meetup)

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…

#datasciencemilan

• If you haven’t done yet, remember to join us onhttp://www.meetup.com/Data-Science-Milan/

And our LinkedIn group:https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8497363