MEET YOUR COMMUNITY (AT THE BBQ OR HERE)

By Berten Van Herp, Nele Verbiest and Geert Verstraeten

As many of us are about to enjoy a short summer break, so is the Brussels Data Science Community. But this will not pass silently – as a wrap up of this exciting semester, the community will throw a BBQ for its members. A great time to meet both new and familiar faces. And perhaps an ideal time to write a short story on the members of this community you may meet on this next big event.

For this story, we went back to the survey of all participants of the first Data Innovation Summit (#DIS2015) held on March 26th in Brussels, Belgium. More than 500 participants were attracted by the inviting program on “how to innovatively use data” and took part in this sold-out event. While many have analyzed and described…