Montreal Data

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Montreal chatbot startup Heyday grabs $6.5 million
Montreal’s Heyday.AI is raising $6.5 million ($5.1 million USD) in funding led by Innovobot and Desjardins Capital, per Techcrunch. CMO Etienne Merineau said the money will help Heyday focus on the US market. Meanwhile, CEO Steve Desjarlais said the startup wants to allow retailers to support more automation and more personalization in their online customer interactions.

21 MIT Sloan stories to boost your data analytics strategy
These MIT Sloan stories about data analytics can help you build a data culture and data team, use data storytelling and unstructured data, and learn from sports and startups.

Create and Deploy your own Optimization API
This article will show you how to build an optimization API from scratch using the following technologies:
1. Pyomo: A python package for mathematical optimization, built by Sandia National Labs
2. Plumber: An R package for creating APIs out of R functions, built by Barret Schloerke
3. Docker: A way to deploy code so things work agnostic of operating system
4. Google Cloud Run — A fully managed autoscaling hosting service

Kaggle: State of Data Science and Machine Learning 2020
Based on responses from 20,036 Kaggle members, we’ve created this report focused on the 13% (2,675 respondents) who are currently employed as data scientists For the fourth year, Kaggle surveyed its community of data enthusiasts to share trends within a quickly growing field. We can see a clear picture of what is common in the community but also the diverse attributes of its members.

Speeding up scientific computing with multiprocessing in Python
A real-world example of how multiprocessing can drastically speed up scientific computations

Événements

Datavore
Tuesday 16 March 2021 @ 08:00
16-17 mars 2021
Datavore, c’est un événement qui interpelle les passionnés de données qui en veulent toujours plus. Incontournable sur la scène de l’analytique au Québec depuis 14 ans, Datavore donne lieu à des apprentissages de toutes sortes: échanges sur les pratiques, partage d’expériences, rencontres fructueuses et nouvelles perspectives. L'édition 2021 sera 100% en ligne!

Lunch & Learn avec Laurent Charlin
Tuesday 16 March 2021 @ 12:00
Pendant cet événement vous aurez la chance d’en apprendre davantage sur les systèmes de recommandation présentés par Laurent Charlin, professeur à HEC Montréal dans le département de sciences de la décision et membre du MILA - Institut québécois d'intelligence artificielle.

Meetup PyData Montreal #18: Data Engineering and Data Management
Friday 19 March 2021 @ 18:00
Talk 1: "The Python ETL: Airflow Vs. Luigi" by Ben Rogojan
Talk 2: "Full Stack Deep Learning: Data Management" by Sergey Karayev

Data 101 Workshop
Tuesday 30 March 2021 @ 18:15
Get an intro to Data Analytics with our free beginner-friendly workshop! Through an instructor-led exercise, you’ll dabble with the building blocks of data such as spreadsheets, SQL, and charts. By the end of the workshop, you will have explored a cool dataset and developed a mini data report!

Developing Data Democratization in Government
Thursday 08 April 2021 @ 15:00
Join Alex Scriven, a Senior Data Scientist from the New South Wales Government in Sydney, Australia as he breaks down what data democratization means in a government environment. He will also provide specific, actionable best practices for growing data democratization in government and outline some interesting case studies for what can happen when democratization in government begins to take hold.