Workshop overview
Support the growth of your business and supercharge your value proposition as a software engineer by developing advanced data skills with Australia’s best known data, machine learning and automation strategist. This one-day intensive is designed for data analysts and high-achieving software engineers. You’ll learn new techniques in machine learning, automation and decision science and workshop your business and career objectives with Tim Garnsey who has led data and analytics strategy at Atlassian, Airtasker, Spaceship and more.
Workshop outcomes
- Understand the benefits and limitations of key modelling and automation tools beyond Google analytics including Segment.io, Amazon EMR and Mode
- Learn strategies to join together data and achieve single customer view to better understand the drivers of your business
- Develop and deploy a live automation system in AWS and work with Tim to identify automation opportunities in your business context.
- Learn to build machine learning models including decision trees, support vector machines and random forests to automate business decisions. You’ll create a machine learning model on the day and combine it with the AWS example.
- Learn to explain the story behind numbers and the implication of your model. Present a business case and articulate the value of your strategy.
This workshop is suitable for:
- Software engineers and engineering team leaders who want to learn the latest techniques in data, analytics, automation and machine learning
- Data and analytic engineers who want to develop an advanced data and automation strategy for their business
- Data consultants looking to understand how the fastest growing technology companies are using these techniques to develop strategy.
Prerequisite:
- The ability to read short code blocks written in Python. Ability to code in Python not necessary, though there will be opportunity do extension exercises if you can
- Some familiarity with SQL
- Will require laptop and web browser during the workshop