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The first Data Insights Cambridge meetup of 2016 is nearly upon us. Metail looks forward to welcoming Sean McGuire, from the University of Cambridge Research Institutional Services, who will present on ‘Supercomputing for your data’.

What does Supercomputing for your Data mean?

Data proliferation and collection means that even small companies are capable of collecting vast amounts of data very quickly these days. But how do companies make the move from desktop or small compute clusters to larger clusters as their data grows? Knowledge of the tools and equipment needed to scale is not necessarily part of the existing knowledge base. This talk will describe how the Research Institutional Services (University of Cambridge) is helping companies today from a wide range of areas, from Life Science to Oil and Gas to the Manufacturing industry. We’ll cover everything from data security to how to go about designing components for a large compute and store cluster.

The Speaker:

Sean has spent the last 20 years working for two well-known vendors in the Super Computing space:

  • Intel Corporation, Director of HPC EMEA
  • Seagate Storage Systems, VP EMEA

Sean has worked in sales, operations and people management before moving into senior EMEA based roles with responsibility for business unit P&L’s.

The meetup is scheduled for Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 7:00 pm at 50 St Andrew’s St, CB2 3AH. We hope to see you there, just sign up for it on the Data Insights Cambridge meetup page.

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For the latest in the Data Insights Cambridge meetup which we host, we are delighted to be welcoming Metail’s very own Shrividya Ravi to speak about the ‘A – Z of A/B testing’.

What is A – Z of A/B testing?

Randomised control trials have been a key part of medical science since the 18th century. More recently they have gained rapid traction in the e-commerce world where the term ‘A/B testing’ has become synonymous with businesses that are innovative and data-driven.

A/B testing has become the ‘status quo’ for retail website development – enabling product managers and marketing professionals to positively affect the customer journey; the sales funnel in particular. Combining event stream data with sound questions and good experiment design, these controlled trials become powerful tools for insight into user behaviour.

This talk will present a comprehensive overview of A/B testing discussing both the advantages and the caveats. A series of case studies and toy examples will detail the myriad of analyses possible from rich web events data. Topics covered will include inference with hypothesis testing, regression, bootstrapping, Bayesian models and parametric simulations.

The Speaker

Dr Ravi transitioned to Data Science following her PhD in experimental materials physics. Working as a Data Scientist at Metail (online try-on technology), Shriv continues experimenting and teasing insights from data.

Head to the Data Insights Cambridge Meetup page to register.