Bringing you into the world of data
NOTE THE LOCATION FOR THIS LAB IS AT THE AIM GROUP, 130 ALBERT ST We often hear of people being shown the results of Monte Carlo simulations, or maybe reading about them and wondering if they can be applied in their work environment. This workshop aims to demystify what Monte Carlo Methods are and (more…)
Discovering Data Science Data-driven, evidence-supported decision making has become paramount. In this workshop we will use presentations, discussions and demos to explore the power and functionality of data, from recording keeping, to data science to artificial intelligence. Data is a driving force behind civilization and with the advent of electronic data collection and storage, data (more…)
This Data Lab will be all about Anomaly detection (AD). Anomaly detection is the discovery of unexpected or interesting events, carried out by analyzing outliers or atypical data points in a dataset. Anomaly detection as an activity piggybacks on a wide variety of underlying machine learning techniques – e.g. classification, clustering and distribution models. This means (more…)
This Data Lab we are going to play “Data Cleaning Bingo™” We are going to talk about a number of types of data issues and strategies on how to clean the data. We want you to bring along a laptop (if you are able) with one of your data sets. Also a tool to use (more…)
In this Open Data Lab we are running a “build a data visualization” competition! Participants should bring along a laptop (it is ok to share with somebody else) with the tool of your choice installed (Excel, Power BI, SAS, R, Cognos, pen & paper!) and we will provide a data set and rules. The participants (more…)
The Power BI lab will run monthly every 3rd Wednesday. We will run through a number of different topics and challenges but we would also like for COG Power BI practitioners to come in and showcase their innovative solutions to different problems. We also encourage you to bring along your problems so that we can (more…)
In this Open Data Lab Patrick will be introducing the concept of Bayesian statistics and where it can be utilized in our organization. Here is a quick overview from Wikipedia >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_statistics (more…)
This session is our regular GOC Power BI lab where we will group problem solve and explore Power BI. Please bring along your laptop and come armed with any problems you may have an issue solving (more…)
In this Lab we are going to look and the commonly used tools and discuss the pros and cons of each in different circumstances. Please bring along a laptop with the tools of your choice loaded and also some scenarios that you are working through. We will also do a quick demo on some tool (more…)
This is part 2 of an “n” numbered series on Bayesian statistics. We will continue from last session looking at continuous (rather than discreet) input systems and will also focus / brainstorm on applications of Bayesian statistics in the GOC work environmnet. We also encourage you to bring along your problems so that we can (more…)
