Montreal Data

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Using Data Science for house hunting in Montreal
"after a few weeks of studying realtor.ca and kijiji, I wrote a python script to scrape information from them, using some resources I found on github. Also, city of Montreal have an open data web site, that helps to fill-out some blanks."

AWS has launched the Activate Founders package for Startups
This package unlocks a new set of benefits. If your startup isn’t affiliated with a venture capital firm, accelerator, or incubator, then your startup can now apply to receive $1,000 in AWS Activate Credits (valid for 2 years) and $350 in AWS Developer Support Credits of AWS technical support (valid for 1 year).

[Video 2m42s] Multi-Agent Hide and Seek using Reinforcement Learning
We’ve observed agents discovering progressively more complex tool use while playing a simple game of hide-and-seek. Through training in our new simulated hide-and-seek environment, agents build a series of six distinct strategies and counterstrategies, some of which we did not know our environment supported. The self-supervised emergent complexity in this simple environment further suggests that multi-agent co-adaptation may one day produce extremely complex and intelligent behavior.

Machine Learning CO2 Impact
Un outil pour mesurer l'empreinte carbone de l'entraînement de modèles: "Progress in Machine Learning (ML) in recent years has been meteorical, with major breakthroughs happening in domains such as machine translation, image recognition and generation. While these advances are having widespread applications in many domains, detecting cancers on X-rays and improving the prediction of supply and demand,the carbon impact of ML training has not been a central part of the conversation until recently."

Tableau: Announcing the Analytics Extensions API
The Analytics Extensions API creates a new frontier for extending Tableau by allowing developers to integrate new programming languages and software with our dynamic calculation language.

Facts and myths about Python names and values
The behavior of names and values in Python can be confusing. Like many parts of Python, it has an underlying simplicity that can be hard to discern, especially if you are used to other programming languages. Here I’ll explain how it all works, and present some facts and myths along the way.

How Facebook uses machine learning to detect fake accounts
Fraudsters use fake accounts to spread spam, phishing links, or malware. Now Facebook is revealing details on how it uses AI to fight back.

Événements

IBM Virtual Community Day: Deploy AI
Tuesday 10 March 2020 @ 08:00
Deploy AI is the preeminent virtual conference for data science experts. You've trained your AI project - now what? Join us and talk to the experts about what comes next.

Virtual Meetup - Zero-code development of blockchain smart contracts
Tuesday 10 March 2020 @ 13:00
Join us to learn how to develop and deploy Hyperledger Fabric chaincode and blockchain client apps using visual development tools in the TIBCO Cloud.

Demo Day Datapreneur 2019-2020
Tuesday 10 March 2020 @ 17:30
L'équipe du Centre d'entrepreneuriat Poly-UdeM a le plaisir de vous inviter au Demo Day de la 2e cohorte de Datapreneur! Datapreneur, c'est un parcours qui vise à créer, à déployer et à soutenir des startups en science des données et en intelligence artificielle.

Meetup: Aldo’s application integration with Talend Cloud API Service and AWS
Wednesday 11 March 2020 @ 17:30
We are excited to have Kenny Dumaine, Integration Lead at Aldo, join us to share with us their experience and some key takeaways about their Talend ESB API platform on AWS.

AI Mornings - Maintenance prédictive grâce à l'IA chez Pratt & Whitney Canada
Thursday 12 March 2020 @ 07:15
Prédire le moment où une pièce d'équipement a besoin de maintenance relevait, il n'y a pas si longtemps, de la science fiction. Tashi Drapeau, directeur stratégique principal au VP service à la clientèle et Roxana Zangor, directrice associée science de données et analytique, présenteront un cas de maintenance prédictive grâce à l'intelligence artificielle qui a été réalisé chez Pratt & Whitney Canada en 2019.

Meetup: SQL Server coding malpractices
Tuesday 17 March 2020 @ 18:30
In this presentation I will talk about "what not to do" when coding with SQL Server and T-SQL. Worst practices to avoid with SQL Server either on-premises and cloud, with some exciting examples. Speaker: Michelle Gutzait

Données, environnement et développement durable
Wednesday 18 March 2020 @ 17:00
Venez rencontrer 4 Montréalaises et Montréalais inspirants qui se servent de la science des données et de l’intelligence artificielle pour poursuivre leurs missions. Lors d’un panel de discussion passionnant, ils vous livreront leurs projets et leur vision pour l’avenir.

Fintech Drinks - AI : Inside the Black Box
Wednesday 18 March 2020 @ 18:00
On March 18th, we will attempt to understand how AI is impacting the financial industry and how, moving forward, can we better leverage this technology.

World Summit AI Americas
Wednesday 25 March 2020 @ 08:30
The World Summit AI Americas is returning to Montreal on 25th-26th March 2020, bringing together major global influencers in AI from enterprise, big tech, startups, academia, law, government and investment for two full days of mind-boggling innovation, heated discussions on AI policy, ethics and regulation, applied solutions for enterprise, hands-on workshops and the development of plans for advancing the application of AI in the coming year.

Hackathon CHUM 2-3-4 avril 2020
Thursday 02 April 2020 @ 08:00
Marathon de créativité, d’innovation, d’intelligence artificielle et de programmation pour contribuer au développement de solutions en santé. Venez participer au Hackathon du CHUM pour réinventer la santé de demain! Vous êtes fervents d’innovation, d’intelligence artificielle ou de jeux vidéo ? Venez participer au premier Hackathon du CHUM présenté en collaboration avec Hacking Health et la Ville de Montréal.