Speakers and topics at recent meetings of the British Data Science Society (BDSS):
Dragos Gavrilut (University of Iasi, and Vice-President of the Threat Research Lab at Bitdefender): Applied Machine Learning in Cybersecurity seminar at Birkbeck, University of London
Daniel Stahl (King’s College London): Predicting psychosis in high-risk patients: An overview of current work at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) seminar at Goldsmith, University of London
Julia Handl (University of Manchester) Pareto optimization in applied data science – formalizing the exploration of optimal trade-offs meeting at University of Essex, Colchester
Sabrine Mallek (ICN Business School, Nancy Cedex) The power of AI recommendations: from consumer decisions to industrial safeguards
Boris Mirkin (NRU HSE Moscow RF, University London UK) Anomalous clustering at various data formats
Cristina Orso (University of Insubria) Temporary GPs and the effects on patients' health outcomes
The British Data Science Society (BDSS, formerly British Classification Society) exists to encourage the co-operation and exchange of views and information among those interested in the principles, methods and practice of the discipline Data Science in as wide a range of applications as possible in academia, government, industry and society. Its membership includes anthropologists, archaeologists, astronomers, biologists, business analysts, business designers, chemists, computer scientists, data scientists, econometricians, forensic scientists, geologists, information specialists, librarians, mathematicians, psychologists, soil scientists and statisticians.
The BDSS is a founding member of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS). Recent biannual conferences IFCS2022, Porto, Portugal, 19-23 July 2022: Classification and Data Science in the Digital Age and IFCS2024, San Jose, Costa Rica, 15-19 July 2024: Data Science, Classification and Artificial Intelligence for Modelling Decision Making.
Upcoming International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) Conference 2026 will take place in Milan, Italy, from 14-16 July 2026. '... The conference will be hosted by the Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods at the University of Milano-Bicocca. The conference will feature plenary, invited, contributed, and poster sessions, tutorials, a data challenge, and vibrant social activities. IFCS 2026 will offer a dynamic interdisciplinary environment for scholars and professionals across statistics, computer science, mathematics, data science, social sciences, and related fields. ...'