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We are excited to have our first meeting of Women in Data, where we are going to present technical and soft-skill topics. Join us at our beautiful office in Wibautstraat for an insightful meetup on Data and meet more women in your field. We will have a talk on how to negotiate as a pro, and how foundational LLMs are trained with the wonderful Marysia Winkels, Co-chair of PyData Amsterdam. Don’t miss out!

📅 Agenda: 17:45 - 18:30h 🍕 Walk-in + Snacks & Drinks 18:30 - 19:00h 🎙️ how foundational LLMs are trained by Marysia Winkels 19:05 - 19:35 🎙️How to negotiate like a pro by Aletta Tordai and Virginia Lopez 19:35 - 20:00h ☕️ Networking

📍 Location: Xebia Data Wibautstraat 202, Amsterdam

Sign-up instructions:

• Sign up via meetup.com
• Let us know if you have any strict dietary restrictions (e.g. vegan🌱)
• We are looking for speakers for the next events. If you would like to give a talk, let us know the topic and a contact information.

We talked about:

Marysia’s background What data-centric AI is Data-centric Kaggle competitions The mindset shift to data-centric AI Data-centric does not mean you should not iterate on models How to implement the data-centric approach Focusing on the data vs focusing on the model Resources to help implement the data-centric approach Data-centric AI vs standard data cleaning Making sure your data is representative Knowing when your data is good enough The importance of user feedback “Shadow Mode” deployment What to do if you have a lot of bad data or incomplete data Marysia’s role at PyData How Marysia joined PyData The difference between PyData and PyCon Finding Marysia online

Links:

Embetter & Bulk Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L---nvDw9KU

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