220421 Can ML predict where my cat is sleeping? Simon Aubury - Principal Data Engineer, Thoughtworks
Channel: Meetup Madness
Date: 2022-05-03

TOPIC: Can ML predict where my cat is sleeping?
It’s 9 am on a rainy Tuesday morning — can a machine learning model predict where my cat will be sleeping? With some inexpensive hardware (and a cat ambivalent to data privacy concerns) I wanted to see if I could train a ML model to predict where Snowy the cat would go throughout her day. The journey of building a data collection platform and the evolution of predictive analytics to guess where the cat is sleeping.

SPEAKER: Simon Aubury - Principal Data Engineer, Thoughtworks Sydney
Simon describes his job to his children as being a “data geek”. Although it doesn’t impress his kids, he is proud to have worked around the globe building highly available distributed data systems for finance, transport, health care, insurance and telecommunications clients. Simon’s current passion is working with streaming technologies and data mesh architecture.