This past Tuesday, IBM's first ever Virtual Community Day brought together thousands of data science practitioners and experts worldwide for a 1-day event including 24 live sessions over the span of 8 hours.
What were your favorite parts of Community Day?
Anything you'd like to see more of?
Highlights:
- Total number of registrations (Eventbrite): 6,552
- Total number of conference platform accounts created: 2,470
- Total number of live views across all talks: 3,717
- Most live viewers on the platform at one time: ~450
- 10% increase in community member population over 24 hours
- Session topics included: product demos, technical deep dives, mentorship, career advice, eminence, industry trends, AI, machine learning, best and worst practices, Db2, CPLEX, SPSS, and much more
Viewers tuned in from:
Croatia, Finland, Estonia, Cameroon, Greece, Senegal, Turkey, Brazil, Macedonia, Malaysia, Philippines, Paris, Azerbaijan, Portugal, India, Nigeria, Uganda, Ohio, Colombia, NYC, Bolivia, Japan, Canada, Argentina, UK, Netherlands, Istanbul, Chile, Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Miami, South Africa, Silicon Valley, Egypt, Rochester, Palestine, Serbia, Maryland, Paraguay, Kenya, Boulder, Dallas, Spain, Hong Kong, Michigan, Costa Rica, Lithuania, Guatemala, Orange County, Dubai, Palo Alto, LA, Mexico
Sessions Snapshot:
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- Ferenc Katai, IBM - "Integrating predictive (SPSS Modeler) and Prescriptive Analytics (CPLEX Optimization Studio) - Campaign Optimization"
- @Steve Barbee, IBM - "Tips on Generalizing Feature Creation and Assessing Imbalanced-Data Trees"
- @SUSARA VAN DEN HEEVER, IBM - "Make Better, Faster, Smarter Decisions by combing Machine Learning and Decision Optimization"
- Hemant Suri, IBM - "The Hybrid Enterprise Data Warehouse of the Future - Do More with your Data"
- Virginie Grandhaye, IBM - "How Decision Optimization Can Complement Machine Learning in Decision Making"
- @Shadi Copty, IBM - "Mega trends in Data Science"
- @Ted Fischer, IBM - "Data Science Best and Worst Practices"
- @DIANE REYNOLDS, IBM - "Natural Language Classification in Analyzing Regulation"
- Daniel Zilio, IBM - "IBM Db2 Event Store - Deriving Deep Insights from Fast Data"
- @Sidney Phoon, IBM - "Extend SPSS Modeler Capabilities with Open Source"
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Related Data Science Community Assets:
Session Highlights:
- "Love this so far!"
- "Fascinating insight into training a cognitive engine; very helpful!"
- "These are great sanity checks. Many thanks!"
- "I already love this talk. So true!"
Social Media Highlights:
- 213 posts from 133 users
- Impressions: 1,289,367
- Reach: 674,352
- Top posters: @Hortonworks (128K followers), @ibmdatascience (6.8K followers), @ayleenielsen (25.4K followers), @IBMSPSSSoftware (19.5K followers)
- Sentiment: Positive 36.2%; Negative 0.9%; Neutral 62.9%
- Demographics: 59.2% Male; 40.8% Female
Discussion Forum Highlights:
Follow-on Events:
- Diversity and Careers: Discussion with Gabriela de Queiroz, founder of R Ladies
- IBM Cloud Private for Data
- Udacity Virtual Event
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