Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 6:30:00 PM Tradewind Energy Inc. 16105 West 113th Street, Suite 105 , Lenexa, KS

Save the Date for the September GeoDev KC!

Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 6:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop 5200 E. 45th St., Kansas City, MO

Every Thursday, the members of Hammerspace gather to socialize, network, and meet new members of the space. We welcome the community at large to come down during this time to explore the workshop, check out all of the tools, fabrication equipment and work space made available to HammerSpace members, and ask questions of our community of Hammerspace users.

There is plenty of off-street parking, a kids playroom available for tiny makers, and the evening is always the origin point of new and amazing creative ideas.

Tours are led every 30 minutes for those curious about the tools and capabilities of the facility and staff. This is a free event, open to the public.

Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 6:00:00 PM Company Kitchen 8500 Shawnee Mission Pkwy, Merriam, KS

Elixir is well known for its concurrency and parallel processing capabilities. During this presentation we will explore how these capabilities can be utilized for a physically based graphics rendering system. We will discuss some basic fundamentals of physically based graphics systems and how the rendering algorithm was implemented using Elixir.

Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 7:30:00 AM eggtc. 5107 Main St, Kansas City, MO

When you walk in the door, let them know you are with KC Roundtable and they should bring you to the table!

Saturday, August 31, 2019 at 3:00:00 PM PT's at The Crossroads 310 Southwest Blvd, Kansas City, MO

We are going to be working on this Kaggle competition: https://www.kaggle.com/c/petfinder-adoption-prediction

Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 6:00:00 PM VeriShip 8880 Ward Pkwy #300, Kansas City, MO

We will have two presentations for you on Wed. 8/28. We are also shooing to live-stream this event (details to be provided later).

For the first presentation, Chris Harvey will give us an overview of Machine Learning.

Talk Abstract: This is the first of what we hope to be a several presentations on Machine Learning and how ML can be leveraged in a big data environment. This first session will be an overview of machine learning and how it can be and is applied in industry at large. The presentation will cover the fundamentals of machine learning, gradient boosted trees, and deep learning. Time permitting, the presentation will also dive into how ML is used today and what aspect of Machine Learning would be most useful for each type of data a company might have.

Bio: Chris is a Data Scientist who loves to create things. Chris is self-taught at everything he does. He learned how to cook, ride a bike, use nunchucks, draw and play piano by himself. If there is something he finds interesting he sets his mind to learn it. The internet changed his life. At the age of 11, he found professors from all around the world uploading their classes. So, he taught himself physics, chemistry and mathematics all while he was still in middle school. He attended an exclusive data science bootcamp in 2018 and has done extensive research into deep and reinforcement learning.

For the second presentation, Travis Rhoades will cover lessons learned from deploying an AI into a human system.

Travis is the Director of Data Science and Analytics at VeriShip. Formerly, Travis led intelligence analysis at the Kansas City Division of the FBI, inspected nuclear power plants for the Nuclear Regulator Commission, and serviced 8 years in the US Navy.

Travis studied statistical physics, mechanical and nuclear engineering. Presentations start at 1830 SHARP!

Event Location: VeriShip is now hosting the KC Learn Big Data meetup group.

They're located at: 8880 Ward Parkway Suite 300 (Second floor), Kansas City, MO 64114. There is a garage just north of the building where you can park. Make sure you turn in on the Ward Pkwy side. If you get lost, DO NOT post on the MeetUp! Instead, text or call 913.269.8402.