[Baypiggies] This month's meeting: Data Science Night -- Social Power, Performance, and Influence in the NBA

[Jeff Fischer]

*BayPiggies August Meeting*
*Thursday October 25, 2018*
7 pm to 9 pm
LinkedIn, Unify Meeting Room, 950 West Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA
<https://goo.gl/maps/tmvzvWGqAfD2>

*RSVP*
Please RSVP at our meetup page:
https://www.meetup.com/BAyPIGgies/events/253961987/

*Speaker:* Noah Gift

*Talk Description*
As the first technical employee and CTO of Sqor Sports, Noah Gift discovers
how social media influences the NBA and vice versa. As a result, Sqor
Sports has been able to grow to millions of monthly active users by
leveraging influencers that were found by machine learning algorithms.

Noah shares his research and lessons learned on how social media and
the NBA intersect and explains how Sqor Sports uses data science and
machine learning to determine NBA team valuation and attendance as well as
individual player performance. You’ll learn how to recreate this research,
working with a set of shared Juypter notebooks, also available in colab
format.

Topics include:
• What drives the valuation of teams (attendance, the local real estate
market, etc.)?
• Does winning bring more fans to games?
• Does salary correlate with social media performance?

*Speaker Bio*
Noah Gift is lecturer and consultant at both UC Davis Graduate School of
Management MSBA program and the Graduate Data Science program, MSDS, at
Northwestern. He is teaching and designing graduate machine learning, AI,
Data Science courses and consulting on Machine Learning and Cloud
Architecture for students and faculty. These responsibilities including
leading a multi-cloud certification initiative for students. He has
published close to 100 technical publications including two books on
subjects ranging from Cloud Machine Learning to DevOps. Gift received an
MBA from UC Davis, a M.S. in Computer Information Systems from Cal State
Los Angeles, and a B.S. in Nutritional Science from Cal Poly San Luis
Obispo.

He has worked in roles ranging from CTO, General Manager, Consulting CTO,
Consulting Chief Data Scientists and Cloud Architect. This experience has
been with a wide variety of companies including ABC, Caltech, Sony
Imageworks, Disney Feature Animation, Weta Digital, AT&T, Turner Studios
and Linden Lab. In the last ten years, he has been responsible for shipping
many new products at multiple companies that generated millions of dollars
of revenue and had global scale. Currently he is consulting startups and
other companies, on Machine Learning, Cloud Architecture and CTO level
consulting as the founder of Pragmatic AI Labs. His most recent book is
Pragmatic AI: An introduction to Cloud-Based Machine Learning.
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