The Top 10 Data Science presentations at Meetup events in SF Bay Area last year

There are 63 separate Meetup groups focused on Data Science, ML, AI, Deep Learning, Predictive Analytics and Big Data.

As of July 5, these groups hosted exactly 800 events during the prior year with total attendance of just over 600,000 professionals.

These are the Top 10 presentations based on number of reviews and the rating score received. Where available, I’ve included links to the slides and/or video of the presentation.

I’m very grateful for the positive reviews that made my recent presentation a member of this list:

1. The Content Trap: A Strategist’s Guide to Digital Change by Prof. Bharat Anand. Hosted by The Hive Think Tank on Oct. 6, 2016 Slides
2. AI Meetup with Baidu Research Presented by: Andrew Ng, Bryan Catanzaro, Eric Battenberg) Hosted by San Francisco Artificial Intelligence on July 21, 2016 Video
3. Deep Learning for Product Managers by Startup.ML Hosted by SF Machine Learning on March 25, 2017
4. Deep Visual Understanding from Deep Learning by Prof. Jitendra Malik hosted by The Hive Think Tank on Sep. 15, 2016 Slides Video
5. The rempreq R package, Time Series Forecasting with R and y-aware principal components regression in R (Allan Miller, Jocelyn Barker and Nina Zumel respectively) Hosted by Bay Area useR Group (R Programming Language) on Aug. 9, 2016 Slides (Barker) Slides (Zumel)
6. Deep Learning At Instacart by Jeremy Stanley and Jagannath Putrevu (Instacart). Hosted by SF Bayarea Machine Learning on May 3, 2017 Video
7. Deep Learning and NLP by Salesforce, LinkedIn and Baidu by Richard Socher (Salesforce), Dan Bikel (LinkedIn) and Carl Case (Baidu) Slides VideoModerated by Jordan Novet (VentureBeat). Hosted by The Hive Think Tank on Nov. 3, 2016 Video
8. Machine Learning & Data Science at Quora by Karmel Allison, Paula Griffin, Lili Jiang and Olivia Angiuli. Hosted by Bay Area Women in Machine Learning & Data Science on Apr. 11, 2017
9. Google Cloud Platform for R users and Zero-Revelation RegTech: Detecting Risk through Linguistic Analysis of Corporate Emails and News by Gus Class and Seoyoung Kim. Hosted by Bay Area useR Group (R Programming Language) on Apr. 11, 2017 Paper (Kim)
10. Use Machine Learning and Open Data to Find Customers and A Cybersecurity and Privacy Checklist for Data Scientists in Energy by David Stier and Daniel Roessler respectively. Hosted by Data Science for Sustainability on July 5, 2017 Slides (Stier)

Below are the data sources for this analysis:
Listing of 63 Meetup Groups
List of all 800 events with attendee count, rating and event detail url