COMMUNITIES

DiSCo

ABOUT DiSCo

BGU's Data Science Community

Who We Are

DiSCo is a data science community at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. We are a community with a goal of overall development and growth of students and professional enthusiasts in Beer-Sheva in the areas of data mining, data science, and machine learning. DiSCo meetups act as a platform to provide hands-on experience in data science tools and techniques, while networking and having fun. We are all about learning, snacks and friendship.

Our Motivation

Data science, also known as data-driven science, is an interdisciplinary field of scientific methods, processes, and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data in various forms, either structured or unstructured, similar to data mining. Harvard Business Review called it "The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century."

The motivation of this club is to serve as a platform for BGU data science enthusiasts to pursue their interests in data science to learn, network, collaborate, create, and innovate.

Join Us

UPCOMING EVENTS

Opening Event

You are invited to join the first lecture of the series with Dr. Eyal Gruss who will give an introduction to Deep Learning and an overview of state-of-the-art technologies in deep learning and deep neural networks.

Deep learning and deep neural networks have in recent years become the forefront of machine learning and artificial intelligence, and their performance is sometimes compared to that of humans. In this introductory lecture, we will review the latest uses and innovations of these methods in computer vision, language understanding, synthetic media and more.

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Eyal Gruss is a New Media Artist, Artificial Intelligence Researcher and Dr. of physics.

Monday, December 16, 2019

18:00

Building 15, Room 300.

Sheli Kohan

Sheli is a first-year MSc student in the Faculty of Industrial Engineering with a specialization in Data Science at Face Language Lab

Sheli studied in a fast track for a master's degree. In her thesis, Sheli is developing a model that established a vector space of facial expressions. In addition, she works as a data scientist at Verint research team. Sheli is a self-learner who believes that creativity and persistence are the keys to solving problems.