MBN and Scotland Data Science & Technology Meetup Group are always delighted to get the opportunity to support and collaborate with other companies. To start the year off, we are proud to sponsor Big Data Technology Warsaw Summit 2017.
 

As part of this sponsorship we ran a competition within our Scotland Data Science & Technology Meetup Group, giving away one FREE ticket to attend this great Summit.
 

Thank you to all who entered the competition.
 

Congratulations to our lucky winner – Simon Caruana!
 

Big Data Tech Warsaw is an exciting one-day event with purely technical talks in the field of Big Data analysis, scalability, storage and search. In the agenda you will mostly find practical and technical talks given by practitioners working at top data-driven companies who share their tools, models, successes and failures
 

To those who are interested in going to this summit. You can receive a 10% discount until Tuesday 31^st January.
 

Promotional codes:
scotlanddst or mbn
**Enter code into Promotional Code section
 

Sign up here to attend this great event – http://bigdatatechwarsaw.eu/registration/
 

We hope Simon has a great time attending Big Data Technology Warsaw Summit!

Great night at the first Scotland Data Science and Technology Meetup of 2017!

Thanks to everyone who attended Scotland Data Science and technology’s first meetup of 2017 at the tontine building in Glasgow last night.
It was great to see a full house once again.

Special thanks to out three speakers Dave Evans; Engineering Team Lead at FreeAgent, Nicholas J. Radcliffe; Chief Executive Officer from Stochastic Solutions Limited and Alan Kerr; Project Manager from Scottish Enterprise.

FreeAgent is the UK’s market-leading online accounting system designed specifically for micro-businesses and freelancers. Dave focused on presenting the method FreeAgent have developed to estimate the residual lifetime value of future subscription payments from new and existing customers.

Nicholas' presentation concentrated on Test-driven data analysis (TDDA) which seeks to take some of the ideas and practices from test-driven development and apply them, with appropriate modifications, to avoid some of the common pitfalls in data analysis. His presentation compared and contrasted mainstream TDD and TDDA, and talked about the challenges and ideas for improving the quality of data analysis using these and related ideas.

Alan from Scottish Enterprise, discussed the different innovation advisory services and grants available from the Innovation & Enterprise Services division of Scottish Enterprise.

We look forward to February’s Meetup!

We are very proud to announce that we have promoted Kristopher McFadyen to Principal Consultant.

Kris focuses on finding the very best candidates for contract and permanent roles in the areas of Big Data, Analytics, Technology and Digital. With an impressive track record and continuous hard work Kris is a great member of our team and we are very proud to have him as part of the company.

Michael Young, CEO of MBN Solutions said “I’m very pleased to announce Kris’s promotions as it recognises his commitment and hard work within MBN and the excellent quality of service he delivers to our clients. I’m sure he will rise to the challenge his new responsibilities his promotion brings”.

Well Done Kris!