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Earlier this month, in association with our partners PITA and the University of Almería, Elastacloud organised a large and unique event for nearly 50 local Almería school children. The Almería Hackathon Weekender gave the children a chance to learn how to create a fully functioning multiplayer gam

I really enjoy being able to meet and talk with people who have the same interests as me, whether it's work related or not. When I found that there was an R Users group based in Nottingham, where I live, I really wanted to attend and the first session that I could make it to was just a couple of day

On Tuesday 3rd of October, the Inspiring Women Team held their fourth session at WeWork Waterhouse Square, the second of our practical sessions entitled ‘Let’s Understand Our Data’. This time we would be focusing on the Data Understanding step of the CRISP-DM Data Science Lifecycle, the natural pro

Here we are again, another month another UK Azure User Group meet-up with myself and Richard Conway rushing around the country! This time the rush was on to get to the meetup in time from Derby, we cut it close but we got there (we spent ten minutes trying the find the new venue though… phew!) So y

We have some very exciting news from Inspiring Women in Data Science, Elastacloud's female-run Data Science Meetup. This Ada Lovelace Day, which falls this year on the 10th of October, our organisers will be attending TECH(K)NOW DAY in Uxbridge. Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) is internationally celebrate

MeetUp on Tuesday the 5th of September 2017 On Tuesday the 5th of September, we had our second meetup at Loughborough University. The first one was an introductory meetup and though was hands on, the aim was to give attendees an initial understanding of what Data Science is all about. Based on th

As its Thursday, why not Throwback to the Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour? Back in May, the UK Azure User Group hosted Scott Guthrie for the 4th time in 5 years. This was the London date of Scott's Red Shirt Tour, and was held in the glorious Twickenham Stadium in collaboration with Microsoft. The sold o

On 18 July the Derby data science team hosted their first Data Science and Machine Learning meetup at Loughborough University. The idea behind the event, primarily organised by Ayo Akiwowo and attended by Darshna Shah and Andrew Booth, was to meet some like minded people, network and have some fun w

Very excited for the coming next Inspiring Women Session, entitled "How to Start Thinking Like a Data Scientist." Our first session was a runaway success and we are expecting the same for this one. We'll be live posting the session from the IWDS Twitter page so make sure to follow for updates! Her

On the 5th of December, we had a really successful end of the year session of Inspiring Women in Data Science! We had one of our inspirational talks where our protagonist of the day, Luisa Pires, shared with us her professional journey to become a Data Scientist and some insights of her daily wor

‘There is a first time for everything’, as the saying goes. Last Wednesday it was my first time I attended a conference thanks to my company. Being a Gold Standard Microsoft Cloud Partner sure has its perks, not only because we can take part of the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) benefits but

How everything started? It was early this year, specifically in March, when I was discussing with Richard Conway how fantastic would be to create a community to help others to start in data science. I had visited some Meetup groups related to Data Science and I knew how lonely I felt sometimes t

Around two weeks ago the Elastacloud data science team attended the EARL conference in London. The first day consisted of several workshops (Spark and R with sparklyr, web scraping and text analysis in R, writing R functions for fun and profit, Introduction to Shiny, working with GitHub, working

On the evening of Wednesday 6th of September, the girls of Inspiring Women in Data Science hosted another highly successful evening of learning and networking at Elastacloud's London offices. This time around we had an amazing speaker in the form of Steph Locke, founder of LockeData and Microsoft D

For over six years now we've run the UK Azure Users Group (https://www.meetup.com/preview/UKAzureUserGroup). Both Andy Cross and myself have bumbled through organising meetings and conference events galore. Back in 2011 Andy and I were the only two Azure bloggers in the UK bar a few from a couple of

Yesterday the UK Azure user group hosted another session at the Bell Inn titled 'A primer on Azure Time Series Insights and CosmosDB roundup' with myself & Richard Conway Speaking. We had the session at the earlier time of 6pm but still had a great turn out with lots of new faces. The fridge was s

Myself and the other organisers would like to thank everyone who made it to the second session of 'Inspiring Women in Data Science', where we were learning how to start thinking like a Data Scientist. Once again there was a great turnout of enthusiastic and engaged women; you inspire us with your pa

We're looking forward to hosting our next meetup with all round Azure Rockstar Richard Conway taking the stage in the first time in ages. Sign up here. Summary: In this session Richard Conway will detail Microsoft's new offering Azure Time Series Insights, describing the scenarios it's used in, giv