This year, we sent several members of our team from both our Data Science wing and our recruitment area to share information on our new Big Data brand and run our technical challenge which we mentioned on our blog the other day to the wide range of data enthusiasts visiting our stand throughout the two day festival of data.
LUCA team Figure 1: The LUCA team at Big Data Spain 2016
Proceedings kicked off with a welcome note from Oscar Méndez from Stratio before us hearing about the very popular matter of Artificial Intelligence, from Paco Nathan from O'Reilly Media who raised some poignant sms gateway finland issues about AI replacing humans in industry. He showed an interesting slide that showed that the most common job in almost all states of the USA is indeed a truck driver, so perhaps we should think more about how and if the economy will allow for machines to replace us in the swift fashion many are expecting.
Throughout the morning session, we also particularly enjoyed Kay Broderson's talk on CausalImpact, which you can find more information on here on Github. He demonstrated how this approach can be used to estimate the causal effect of a designed intervention on a time series, using the example of an advertising campaign to explain the technology to the audience.
The afternoon sessions also touched some of our favourite topics, including Open Data ( From Insight to Visualization with Google BigQuery and CARTO) and the role of Stream Processing in Big Data and the Internet of Things. As well as more technical sessions with fascinating demos, there were also some insightful more academic talks about Growing Data Scientists and Managing Data Science, which were delivered by Amparo Alonso from the University of A Coruña and David Martinez from University College London.
