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3 common pitfalls in building a Data Science team
Bohumír Zoubek

3 common pitfalls in building a Data Science team

by Petr Paščenko, Head of Data Science at Profinit In the last few years, I have seen several attempts to build a good data science/machine learning team both at Profinit as well as with our clients. Over time, I have observed several notorious anti-patterns, which…

Passenger Terminal Expo 2019 in London
Peter Čmelík

Passenger Terminal Expo 2019 in London

Passenger Terminal Expo is rightfully called the biggest and most important conference in the airport industry. Where else could you listen to the visions and opinions of significant innovators in the field, or pose direct questions to leading IT engineers of the world’s biggest airports?…

Big-Data.AI Summit 2019 in Berlin
Bohumír Zoubek

Big-Data.AI Summit 2019 in Berlin

Big Data AI Summit 2019 in Berlin conference review

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Petr Paščenko

3 Common pitfalls in building a Data Science team

In the last few years, I have seen several attempts to build a good data science/machine learning team both at Profinit as well as with our clients. Over time, I have observed several notorious anti-patterns, which tend to be very common in the field.

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Bohumír Zoubek

4 most important applications of Data science in Banking

The Banking/Financial sector is just one of the many industries, which benefits hugely from data science-driven insights. With a natural affinity for numbers and quantitative methods, it surprises no one that it was one of the early adopters of Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI…

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Bohumír Zoubek

Review: DataWorks Summit 2019 in Barcelona

Last week, our Head of Data Science, Petr Paščenko, and Data Scientist Sergii Stamenov attended the DataWorks Summit #DWS19 held in Barcelona. Here are some of their brief impressions: As the event was hosted by Cloudera, the upcoming merge with…

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Dominik Matula

Will Data Science become automated?

Full disclaimer: the author works as a data scientist and loves his job. Therefore, once robots take over the field of Data Science, he might lose his job and spend his last days being depressed. Or will he? Let’s not beat about…

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Dominik Matula

Data is the new oil

Have you ever tried digging deeper into your company data warehouse? Perhaps you found one or two skeletons in the cupboard, but maybe also a hidden golden vein. If you haven’t, then it’s about time you roll your sleeves up and start the data…

Database Systems in Practice
Peter Čmelík

Database Systems in Practice

As every year, at the end of summer I updated the lectures for the course called Database Systems in Practice that we teach at universities. This time I decided to radically update our computer workshop material. For my students, I have the same environment prepared…

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Barbora Fuksa

Big-Data.AI Summit 2019 in Berlin

Our review of the most prominent event about Big Data and AI in Germany.