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Data Workshops and Talks
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This repository contains all the files for the various workshops and talks I give at various meetups and conferences.
⚙️ Data Engineering & Reproducible Research
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Title
Description
Link
October 2023
Data Do's and Don'ts Best practices and common pitfalls in data science workflows.
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May 2022
Reproducible Research 2.0 Best practices and advanced techniques for ensuring code and data reproducibility.
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January 2023
Taking Advantage Simulating Dungeons & Dragons combat mechanics and advantage rolls.
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📈 General Data Science & Fundamentals
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Title
Description
Link
November 2023
Demystifying Data Core data science principles and techniques for extracting value from unrefined data sources.
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September 2022
Demystifying Data Core data science principles and techniques for extracting value from unrefined data sources.
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May 2022
Demystifying Data Core data science principles and techniques for extracting value from unrefined data sources.
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📊 Bayesian Methods & Probabilistic Modelling
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Title
Description
Link
March 2026
Survival Analysis with Stan Practical exploratory survival analysis and modeling applied to policy lapse prediction.
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December 2025
Survival Analysis with Stan Practical exploratory survival analysis and modeling applied to policy lapse prediction.
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April 2025
BTYD Modelling with Stan Using Bayesian methods and Stan to fit Buy 'Til You Die models for customer lifetime value.
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June 2023
BTYD Modelling with Stan Using Bayesian methods and Stan to fit Buy 'Til You Die models for customer lifetime value.
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May 2023
Fraud Modelling with Probabilistic Graphical Models Applying Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) to detect fraudulent behavior.
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November 2022
BTYD Modelling with Stan Using Bayesian methods and Stan to fit Buy 'Til You Die models for customer lifetime value.
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🛡️ Insurance, Finance & Actuarial Science
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Title
Description
Link
June 2024
Randomised Portfolios in Insurance Using randomized portfolios for risk and performance assessment in insurance.
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February 2022
Bond Portfolio Modeling and calculating bond portfolio cashflows.
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🧠 AI, Machine Learning & NLP
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Title
Description
Link
June 2026
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the LLM A personal journey into LLM-assisted development tools and what they mean for practitioners.
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November 2024
RAG Overview of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for chatbots.
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⚙️ Data Engineering & Reproducible Research
Date
Title
Description
Link
July 2023
Construct MTPL Datasets Creating and structuring Motor Third-Party Liability datasets.
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📈 General Data Science & Fundamentals
Date
Title
Description
Link
March 2026
Workshop: Introduction to Queuing Theory Mathematical study of waiting lines and system optimization.
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📊 Bayesian Methods & Probabilistic Modelling
Date
Title
Description
Link
February 2026
Workshop: Introduction to Copulas Modeling joint multivariate dependencies using copulas.
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January 2022
Data Science Soup to Nuts: Retrieving Retail Data End-to-end data retrieval and preparation for CLV modeling.
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🛡️ Insurance, Finance & Actuarial Science
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Title
Description
Link
January 2026
Life Insurance Lapse Survival Analysis with Rollback Validation Practical survival analysis applied to policy lapse prediction.
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🧠 AI, Machine Learning & NLP
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Title
Description
Link
January 2023
Initial NLP Work on Film Scripts Parsing HTML and performing natural language processing on film scripts.
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Pre-2022 talks and workshops archived in the oldertalks/
⚙️ Data Engineering & Reproducible Research
Date
Type
Title
Description
Link
January 2021
🛠️ Workshop
Building the Customer and Product Modelling End-to-end data science workflow for retail customer and product modeling.
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May 2020
🎙️ Talk
Reproducible Research 2.0 Best practices and advanced techniques for ensuring code and data reproducibility.
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Type
Title
Description
Link
November 2021
🛠️ Workshop
UCC Data & Analytics Society: Exploring DotA2 Match Data Hands-on data exploration of multiplayer game match data.
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📈 General Data Science & Fundamentals
Date
Type
Title
Description
Link
February 2021
🎙️ Talk
The Virtues of Simplicity Why simple models often outperform complex ones in real-world data science applications.
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June 2020
🎙️ Talk
The Virtues of Simplicity Why simple models often outperform complex ones in real-world data science applications.
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January 2020
🛠️ Workshop
Dublin Data Science Workshop on Bootstrap Methods Statistical inference and resampling techniques using the bootstrap.
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November 2019
🎙️ Talk
The Virtues of Simplicity Why simple models often outperform complex ones in real-world data science applications.
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October 2019
🎙️ Talk
Why R? Advocating for R as the premier language for statistical computing and data science.
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September 2019
🛠️ Workshop
Workshop: Queueing Foundational concepts and mathematics in queuing theory.
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June 2019
🎙️ Talk
Terrorism as a Virus Idsc terrorism overview.
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January 2019
🛠️ Workshop
Dublin Data Science Workshop on Time Series Analysis Analyzing quantitative data measured over time as stochastic processes.
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November 2018
🛠️ Workshop
Data Exploration for Census Socio-economic Dataset Dataexp overview.
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September 2018
🎙️ Talk
Why R? Advocating for R as the premier language for statistical computing and data science.
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September 2018
🎙️ Talk
Why R? Advocating for R as the premier language for statistical computing and data science.
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March 2018
🛠️ Workshop
Dublin Data Science Workshop on the Statistical Analysis of Networks Exploring the statistical properties of network structures.
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January 2018
🎙️ Talk
Data Exploration for the Bank Marketing Dataset Dds dataexpks overview.
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November 2017
🎙️ Talk
An Introduction to Probability using Simulation Introduction to probability concepts through computational simulation.
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November 2016
🎙️ Talk
Talk: Reprsrch Reprsrch overview.
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June 2016
🛠️ Workshop
Workshop: Dd Dd overview.
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April 2016
🎙️ Talk
Talk: Bm Bm overview.
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March 2016
🎙️ Talk
Talk: Rjulia Rjulia overview.
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March 2016
🎙️ Talk
Talk: Cgrpkg Cgrpkg overview.
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March 2016
🎙️ Talk
Talk: Dvggplot Dvggplot overview.
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March 2016
🛠️ Workshop
Workshop: Bda Bda overview.
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February 2016
🛠️ Workshop
Workshop: Sfcrime Sfcrime overview.
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January 2016
🛠️ Workshop
Workshop: Gp Gp overview.
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December 2015
🎙️ Talk
Talk: Processchange Processchange overview.
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October 2015
🛠️ Workshop
Workshop: Dlm Dlm overview.
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September 2015
🎙️ Talk
Talk: Processchange Processchange overview.
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February 2015
🎙️ Talk
Talk: Datatable Datatable overview.
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August 2014
🛠️ Workshop
Workshop: Bda Bda overview.
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March 2014
🛠️ Workshop
Workshop: Bootstrap Bootstrap overview.
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2014
🛠️ Workshop
Workshop: Bdasingle Bdasingle overview.
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September 2013
🛠️ Workshop
Workshop: Timeseries Timeseries overview.
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2013
🛠️ Workshop
Workshop: Bdaworkshop Bdaworkshop overview.
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📊 Bayesian Methods & Probabilistic Modelling
Date
Type
Title
Description
Link
October 2020
🎙️ Talk
Exploring Life Insurance Data Bayesian approaches to analyzing life insurance datasets.
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September 2020
🛠️ Workshop
Dublin Data Science Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models Introduction to Probabilistic Graphical Models and Bayesian networks.
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November 2019
🎙️ Talk
An Introduction to Bayesian Analysis and Bayesian Regression in R Foundational overview of Bayesian regression and statistical analysis in R.
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October 2019
🎙️ Talk
An Introduction to Particle Filters Hdm partfilt overview.
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October 2019
🛠️ Workshop
Dublin Data Science Workshop on Bayesian Data Analysis Bayesian overview.
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August 2019
🎙️ Talk
An Introduction to Bayesian Regression and Hierarchical Models Dds bayesreg overview.
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April 2019
🎙️ Talk
The Bayesian Approach to Data Dpff bayes overview.
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July 2018
🎙️ Talk
Hierarchical Compartmental Models for Loss Reserving Hierarchical compartmental models for exponential loss reserving.
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November 2017
🎙️ Talk
An Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis Datafest bayes overview.
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October 2017
🎙️ Talk
The Benefits of Bayes Insurtechirl bayes overview.
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August 2017
🎙️ Talk
Monitoring Process Change with Bayesian Methods Iyj processchange overview.
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November 2016
🎙️ Talk
Lightning Talk on rstanarm Bmlightrstanarm overview.
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July 2016
🎙️ Talk
Talk: Pgminsurance Pgminsurance overview.
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November 2015
🛠️ Workshop
Workshop: Pgm Pgm overview.
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🛡️ Insurance, Finance & Actuarial Science
Date
Type
Title
Description
Link
February 2021
🎙️ Talk
Data, Big or Otherwise, in the Insurance Industry The evolving role of data, analytics, and machine learning in the modern insurance industry.
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May 2020
🎙️ Talk
An Introduction to Insurance Pricing, GLMs and Model Validation Foundational concepts in actuarial pricing and the use of Generalized Linear Models.
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March 2019
🎙️ Talk
An Introduction to Options and Risk Margining Dds optionsmargin overview.
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February 2019
🎙️ Talk
An Introduction to Insurance Pricing, GLMs and Model Validation Foundational concepts in actuarial pricing and the use of Generalized Linear Models.
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September 2018
🛠️ Workshop
Dublin Data Science Workshop on Survival Analysis Survival overview.
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February 2018
🎙️ Talk
Data, Big or Otherwise, in the Insurance Industry The evolving role of data, analytics, and machine learning in the modern insurance industry.
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February 2018
🎙️ Talk
Data, Big or Otherwise, in the Insurance Industry The evolving role of data, analytics, and machine learning in the modern insurance industry.
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November 2017
🎙️ Talk
Insurance: A New Frontier for Data Science Datafest insur overview.
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August 2017
🎙️ Talk
The Cannonball Run Dds carins overview.
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February 2017
🎙️ Talk
Pricing Car Insurance Carinspricing overview.
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November 2016
🎙️ Talk
So You Want to Data Science? Actuarucd overview.
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August 2016
🎙️ Talk
Talk: Lossmodels Lossmodels overview.
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June 2015
🎙️ Talk
Talk: Mortswap Mortswap overview.
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🧠 AI, Machine Learning & NLP
Date
Type
Title
Description
Link
November 2018
🎙️ Talk
Dublin Data Science El Dorado Competition Dds eldorado2 overview.
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November 2017
🎙️ Talk
An Introduction to Machine Learning for Quants Mlforum introml overview.
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March 2017
🎙️ Talk
El Dorado Mldeldorado overview.
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