We are pleased to announce our next event “Causal Inference – Part I” on November 25th, 19h at Movistar Centre. Doors will open at 18:45.

Machine learning models or A/B testing are useful methods to make business decisions. But sometimes they are not feasible or present some limitations. Moreover, in many cases, we need to address questions such as: what would have happened if instead of doing X we had done Y? Can we have an estimate of the effect of one variable into another? In these cases, causal inference becomes the best option. And unsurprisingly, companies such as Uber are using causal inference as part of their data science efforts.

We are organizing two events to properly discuss the potential of causal inference and when it makes sense to apply it. In this first session, Bartek Skorulski and Aleix Ruiz de Villa will show the whole spectrum of causality, from AB tests to causal inference. You can register here

Aleix Ruiz de Vila holds a Ph.D. in mathematics. He has been head of data science at LaVanguardia, SCRM – Lidl, and Onna. He’s a co-organizer of Barcelona Data Science and Machine Learning Meetup and board member of Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques. He currently teaches at BData and Uoc and he is a data science consultant specialized in causal inference. Check https://medium.com/tag/casual-causal-inference/latest for an introduction to causal inference

Bartek Skorulski, Data Scientist and Ph.D. in Dynamical System. He works as a Senior Data Scientist, Recommender System Lead in Telefonica Innovation Alpha. Previously, he was working as Staff Insight Analyst in Schibsted, Data Science Team Lead in Lidl-SCRM and Data Scientist in King. Moreover, he has many years of experience as an academic researcher and teacher. Now he collaborates with the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, University of Barcelona and Kschool teaching Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Data Management courses. He is also co-organizer of Barcelona Data Science and Machine Learning Meetup.

This talk is co-organized with Barcelona Data Science and Machine Learning Meetup.

This event could not be possible without the collaboration of Movistar Centre.

Join Barcelona GSE for the first edition of the Barcelona Data Science Meeting, taking placeMarch 21-22, 2016 at UPF’s Ciutadella Campus.

Organized by the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics with participation of the Ramón Areces Foundation, this two-day meeting will bring together international Data Science experts from academia and industry:

DAY 1: RESEARCH IN DATA SCIENCE
Alberto Cavallo (MIT)
“The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Data for Inflation Measurement and Research”
Costantinos Daskalakis (MIT)
“Testing and Learning Distributions in Sublinear Time”
Andrew Gelman (Columbia University)
“Little Data: How Traditional Statistical Ideas Remain Relevant in a Big-Data World; or, The Statistical Crisis in Science; or, Open Problems in Bayesian Data Analysis”
Alexandros Karatzoglou (Telefonica)
“Deep Learning”
Modesto Orozco (IRB)
“Flops and Bytes in Biology”

DAY 2: DATA SCIENCE APPLICATIONS FOR BUSINESS AND INSTITUTIONS
Speakers from companies will be announced shortly.
The conference aims to create an open environment for debate and exchange of knowledge, ideas, and views among researchers, professional experts, and students. We hope you will join us for the inaugural edition!

REGISTRATION AND MEETING DETAILS
Registration deadline: March 14, 2016