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BCG Gamma: Anti-patterns in Enterprise Data Sciences
In the 2019 MIT SMR and BCG Research Report, fully 90% of respondents agreed that AI represents a business opportunity for their company, while the lack of it was deemed a strategic risk. But as encouraging as this all sounds for AI enthusiasts, many statistics offer a very different perspective. For example, the report also highlights that seven out of 10 companies surveyed have reported minimal or no impact from AI.

Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data
The Spotify Wrapped Campaign is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see a detailed breakdown of their listening habits over the past year. Since 2019 was the end of the decade, we wanted to do something special for our users. As one of the few streaming platforms that has existed since before 2010, Spotify had a unique opportunity to be able to provide users with a review of their listening habits over the entire decade.

Tour of Python Itertools
There are lots of great Python libraries, but most of them don't come close to what built-in itertools and also more-itertools provide. These two libraries are really the whole kitchen sink when it comes to processing/iterating over some data in Python.

New York Times: How Much Worse the Coronavirus Could Get, in Charts
What’s at stake in this coronavirus pandemic? How many Americans can become infected? How many might die? The answers depend on the actions we take — and, crucially, on when we take them.

Washington Post: Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve”
Le WaPo utilise la visualisation de données et les simulations pour montrer l'effet des quarantaines et de l'isolement sur la propagation d'un virus.

Événements

[ONLINE] 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

[ONLINE] Women Techmakers Montreal
Saturday 21 March 2020 @ 08:00
Women Techmakers is a program created by Google to celebrate International Women's Day and to highlight the talent of women in technology. This program has been in over 200 global events and seen across 52 countries.

[ONLINE] 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.

Data analytics in marketing: Mesurer nos actions
Tuesday 31 March 2020 @ 18:00
Joignez vous à nous et à nos 4 experts pour échanger sur l'important rôle que l'analyse de données joue dans l'industrie du marketing.

[ONLINE] Google Cloud Next ’20: Digital Connect
Monday 06 April 2020 @ 08:00
6 au 8 avril 2020. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the latest Google Cloud innovations. See how the world's leading brands use the cloud to solve today’s most pressing business challenges.

Meetup: Interfacing Data science models with ORM and Word2vec for Topic Modeling
Thursday 09 April 2020 @ 18:00
This Meetup is going to talk about using better approaches. First of all, Benjamin Denis (Behaviour Interactive) is going to talk about a better way to build and maintain models using ORM. Then, Étienne Labrie-Dion (GSoft) is going to talk about a better way to do topic modelling using Word2Vec.