Tech Events by Dublin Data Science

with Mick Cooney (Organiser, Dublin Data Science)

Dublin Data Science's monthly talk, this time on using directed acyclic graphs to model a chain of reinsurance treaties and calculate recoveries. Mick Cooney, one of the group's organisers, shows how tidyverse code, domain knowledge and functional techniques break a messy calculation into small pieces, with a full audit trail for the odd results these calculations throw up. Thursday 29 October, 18:30 to 20:30, Trinity Business School, Pearse Street (BoI Room 225). Free, RSVP on Meetup. Why go: a practical talk on making a hard-to-debug calculation traceable, from someone who has done it. Best for data scientists and analysts in insurance or finance, and anyone who likes functional programming applied to a real problem.

Neill will look back at a project from a decade ago: building and deploying a recommender system for a car rental website. He’ll cover the business problem, the approach he took, the challenges he encountered, and how the system ultimately made it into production.

Dublin Data Science returns to Dogpatch Labs in April. Details TBC — check the Meetup page for speaker announcements. The group has 6,400+ members and consistently hosts quality evenings on machine learning and analytics.