“Going Real-Time with Mahout, predicting gender of Facebook Users” Michael Cutler CTO at Tumra

Presentation by Michael Cutler CTO Tumra at Data Science London 23/05/12

Michael has written a beautiful blog post that elaborates in depth on his presentation. Highly recommended

Also highly recommended, checkout the live demo predicting Facebook users gender (original presentation included too) Enjoy!

“Simple Matrix Factorization for Recommendation in Mahout” Sean Owen Founder at Myrrix

Presentation by Sean Owen core Mahout commiter, author of Mahout in Action, founder of Myrryx at Data Science London 23/05/12

“Super-Fast Clustering Report in MapR” Ted Dunning Architect at MapR

Presentation by Ted Dunning, core Mahout commiter, architect at MapR, and author of Mahout in Action at Data Science London 23/05/12

“Scientific Article Recommendation with Mahout,” Kris Jack Sr. Data Mining Engineer at Mendeley

Presentation by Kris jack PhD, Senior Data Mining Engineer Mendeley at Data Science London 23/05/12

Data Science London Panel Discussion: “Data Science as a Game Changer”

A great discussion hosted at @ds_ldn Data Science London 23/04/2012.
Lots of insightful comments and fun.

From left to right:

• Dr. Alex Farquhar, Moderator
•  Bruce Durling, CTO at Mastodon C
• James Governor, Principal Analyst and Founder at RedMonk
• Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist at Bitly
• Mike Ferguson, MD at Intelligent Business Strategies
• Jason McFall, CTO at Causata

“Why Data is Awesome” Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist at Bitly

Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist at Bitly talk at @ds_ldn Data Science London 23/04/12

(note: Because of the style of talks that Hilary gives, the slides alone aren’t useful. The video is a much better representation of the talk)