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Data Science of Football
Unstructured: Volume I - The Data Science of Geo-Gaming, Negativity and Football

Unstructured: Volume I - The Data Science of Geo-Gaming, Negativity and Footballđź”—

This is the first event in our new Unstructured speaker series, looking at the intersection of Data Science and Business.

We will have a small group meeting in Berlin, and hopefully a wider audience joining us online. This Meetup event is for the in-person event in Berlin. After the talks we will have some drinks and networking.

If you only want to join remotely, please sign-up here. The Meetup Event sign-up is only meant for in-person attendees (you are still welcome to join the Group to be notified about all events).

We have three expert speakers sharing their experience of applying data science to business problems.

Boyan Angelov is a CTO and data strategist with a decade of experience in a variety of academic and business environments. He's the author of the O'Reilly "Python and R for the Modern Data Scientist" book and currently working on his second book - "Elements of Data Strategy: A Handbook for the Analytics Manager".

In his work, Naseem Taleb extensively covers the concept of Via Negativa: people are much better at understanding the downsides than upsides. In this talk, I'll explain what not to do in delivering data projects. I'll go through the most common scenarios and the factors causing them. And finally, I will provide several remedy recipes to ensure your data projects don't suffer the same fate.

Louis Guitton attended Mines ParisTech PSL from 2012-2016, where he got his MSc in Engineering (with a minor in Econometrics) and perfected the "spaghetti al kettle". An open source contributor and technologist, Louis spoke in May 2021 at The Knowledge Graph Conference, in NYC, about his graph data science work in natural language processing. This is the business-critical technology he has developed for OneFootball in Berlin.

Stefan Berkner is a passionate self-taught software engineer with 15+ years experience in development and architecture. He was previously Lead Software Engineer at a German credit bureau where he was responsible for leading the development of the technology that would go on to become Tilo, where he is the Chief Development Officer.

Searching in databases using geographical data and a given distance can be challenging if the database does not support this natively. Creating a grid on the world drastically reduces the potential search space. Stefan will explain how one of his favourite games, Dyson Sphere Program, influenced him in choosing a grid that is easy to calculate and work with.