On May 27th we had our 23rd meetup in Ghent kindly hosted by iMinds. We had a healthy mix of technical and business items.
Following presentations were given:
- Introduction to the Brussels Data Science Meetup by Philippe Van Impe (30 min)
Philippe gave an introduction to this Meetup, the projects they are working (with possible link to big data) and their link to the non-profit datakind organization (“data for good”)
His presentation can be found here.
2. Introduction to ElasticSearch by Eric Rodriguez (60 min)
In just less than one hour Eric gave an introduction to all features of ElasticSearch. During the presentation Toon Vanaght showed how ES is used at data.be.
His presentation can be found here and you are also invited to checkout the Belgian ElasticSearch Meetup group.
3. Election Bingo by Stijn Beauprez (30 min)
The vk14-bingo.be application can be used for making up your mind for voting on sunday, it gives you insight into the topics our political parties are talking about.
Stijn demo-ed the application and explained which technologies were used to implement this application.
His presentation can be found here.
4. De Verkiezingen by Philippe Kerremans (10 min)
Deverkiezingen.be website is another application of using social media to get insight into the mother of all elections. Philippe explained how they used ElasticSearch and D3.js among other technologies.
His presentation can be downloaded here: BigDataMeetupDeverkiezingen
Many thanks to iMinds for hosting the location and DataCrunchers for providing drinks.
In the mean time we now have more than 700 members!
