Data Science Community Builders – talks

Example community formats:

Data Competitions

One way to create business value with your data science community is through data competitions.

Example Community Website

Please feel free to use this example community site as a starting point and change it as needed.

Internal Data Science Conference

An internal data science conference is a great way to meet others across your organization and grow your community.

Internal Data Science Hangout

One example for a weekly or monthly event is a Data Science Hangout. Rachael Dempsey at Posit hosts a Data Science Hangout every Thursday at 12 ET. While this event is open to the public, you may want to consider hosting one internal to your organization to get to know different data people, their use cases, challenges, ideas, etc.

Meetup

There’s no standard format for an event, but this sample agenda and list of types of meetups will help you get started and maybe even spark some ideas of your own.

Office Hours / Hot Desk

AstraZeneca launched the R Hot Desk at their Gothenburg site. The idea is the following: once a month, a few R experts meet in an open area of their offices and dedicate two hours of their time to answer R-related questions.