Leeds Data Science Meetup

Leeds, GB

1,733 members · Public group

Organized by Colin Gillespie and 4 others

What we’re about

Meet with students, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs who are interested all things Data Science related! This is an exciting time for coders of every type in Leeds, so join us!

We are sponsored by Jumping Rivers (https://jumpingrivers.com), a predictive analytics training and consultancy company.

Upcoming events (2)

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Tue, May 20, 2025, 6:00 PM BSTMay Meetup - Optimising Fantasy Football with Google OR-Tools
Platform, Leeds
We are delighted to welcome you to our next meetup in May!

If you would like to volunteer as a speaker please reach out to us at lds@jumpingrivers.com.

Schedule

18:00--18:45h: Refreshments (Food served on first come first served basis)

18:45--18:50h: Welcome

18:50--20:00: Owen Lacey

What's the "best" Fantasy Football team? With all of the rules around budget and team selections, how can we maximise our chance of getting ahead of the game?

Using Google OR-Tools, Owen will demonstrate how to use constraint programming and optimisation techniques to select a Fantasy Football team that maximises expected performance within key constraints like budget, formations, and transfer rules.

This is a practical, code-driven session ideal for data scientists, engineers, and problem-solvers of all kinds who want to see how optimisation can be applied in a fun, real-world scenario. You’ll learn:

The basics of constraint programming and how it differs from traditional algorithms

How to model Fantasy Football team selection as an optimisation problem

How Google OR-Tools can be used to explore, evaluate, and select optimal lineups

Whether you’re chasing fantasy glory or just looking for a fresh use case for OR-Tools, this talk will show how the right constraints can lead to the best decisions.

News and Announcements

Have a news item or announcement you'd like to make about upcoming data events or job opportunities in Leeds? Comment below or contact us directly (lds@jumpingrivers.com) and we'll do our best to circulate this information during the session.

Please contact the organisers if you would like to volunteer as a speaker for future events.
45 attendees+40
Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 6:00 PM BSTJuly Meetup
Platform, Leeds
We are delighted to welcome you to our meetup in July!

If you would like to volunteer as a speaker please reach out to us at lds@jumpingrivers.com.

Schedule

18:00--18:45h: Refreshments (Food served on first come first served basis)

18:45--18:50h: Welcome

18:50--19:25: Hugh Evans @ Aiven
Event Driven Architecture for Open Source Software Metrics

How can you measure the impact of a contributor or group of contributors on the open source community? This is one of the many difficult questions community solution engineers (or CSEs) are faced with in quantifying the impact of their work on the communities they serve. In this talk Hugh will outline how he has tried to answer this question by collecting open data from github with python, aggregating it, and visualising it with Grafana to build a tool for better understanding the OSS ecosystem.

19:25--20:00h: Talk 2 (TBC)

Bio 1: Hugh Evans

Hugh is an experienced developer advocate and community manager with a particular interest in data and AI. He has been working in IT for over 5 years, working primarily on large scale data engineering projects and cloud infrastructure.

Out of office hours Hugh organises AI and Deep Learning for Enterprise (aidle.uk) , a Meetup group which hosts talks on real world applications of AI.

Hugh is a former apprentice and an advocate for vocational learning as a pathway into an IT career.

Bio 2: TBC

News and Announcements

Have a news item or announcement you'd like to make about upcoming data events or job opportunities in Leeds? Comment below or contact us directly (lds@jumpingrivers.com) and we'll do our best to circulate this information at the end of the session.

Please contact the organisers if you would like to volunteer as a speaker for future events.
5 attendees

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Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 6:00 PM GMTMarch Meetup - 2 speakers!
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45 attendees+40

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