Blockchain Technologies: An Intuitive Introduction for Data Scientists | Online

About this event

Dataiku and General Assembly will be hosting two talks, focusing on Blockchain Technologies.

Tentative Schedule:

Talk Abstracts Blockchain Technologies: An Intuitive Introduction for Data Scientists by Bruno Gonçalves, Senior Data Scientist at JPMorgan Chase : Bitcoin has brought about a true revolution in how we think about money. In one fell stroke it solved the main problems that afflicted previous attempts at a truly digital currency: distributed consensus, double spending, and external attacks. Perhaps more importantly, it provided the first working version of a blockchain or distributed ledger. However, despite their relative simplicity, the underlying concepts on which these technologies are built are not well known and often obscured by hype and technical jargon.

Since the days of Bitcoin’s founding, many other crypto-currencies have been proposed and released. This tutorial will introduce these technologies in an intuitive way for data scientists, explaining their driving algorithms and motivations, as well as how to implement them in their own data science efforts.

The tutorial will particularly focus on Ethereum, a particularly interesting and promising technology that allows even for self enforcing smart contracts that constitute a distributed computational framework that may be used for the creation of decentralized applications by third party developers. Recent developments and proposals such as SegWit, Lightning Network will also be covered.

Prereqs & Preparation

None!