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🤗 Margaux will be presenting how she deployed a Hugging Face model in the cloud so easily at the Data Mineurs meetup on the 9th of February.

Don’t miss a super cool event in Charleroi!
👉 https://www.meetup.com/data-mineurs/events/290919994/

4th Data Mineurs meetup - LIVE event, Thu, Feb 9, 2023, 7:00 PM | Meetup Pour notre quatrième évènement, et le premier en 2023, nous vous proposons de nouveaux sujets tous plus intéressants les uns que les autres: * **Comment publier son modèle

🎶 Last Month, the Beatroots team was invited by Breinwijzer to explain their project and how AI can help artists’ creativity. Don’t miss out on this nice podcast!
👉 https://www.breinwijzer.be/studio-brein/5-mens-versus-machine-wat-ai-ons-kan-leren-over-onze-eigen-intelligentie/

#5 Mens versus machine. Wat AI ons kan leren over onze eigen intelligentie Artificiële intelligentie spreekt tot de verbeelding. Maar kan het ons ook iets leren over onze eigen intelligentie? Waarin zijn slimme machines beter dan mensen — en waarin (nog) niet? Shalini Van den Langenbergh zoekt het uit samen met techniekfilosoof Lode Lauwaert en neurowetenschapper Tom Ve...

👋🏼 Monday was the last day of our job student Silke in the HR & Finance team!
Thank you for all your help and have fun traveling in the coming months!

👋🏼 Monday was the last day of our job student Silke in the HR & Finance team!
Thank you for all your help and have fun traveling in the coming months!

📃 After the academy, most employees start working for their first client. For those who haven't found a match with a client yet or for those whose project will only start in a couple weeks time, there is the rootsacademy project. This is an internal project in which the participants can gain their first experience, making them even more prepared to start working at a client.

The goal of the project is to implement a traffic monitoring solution in AWS that implements vision transformers with Hugging Face according to best practices.

In this post, Nicolas explains how he has improved the performance of the lambda function and what are his lessons learned.
👉https://dataroots.io/research/contributions/rootsacademy-project-fixing-a-slow-aws-lambda-function/

Rootsacademy project: Fixing a slow AWS Lambda function - Nicolas Jankelevitch The rootsacademy, some believe it's as unrealistic and imaginary as Hogwarts, but nothing is further from the truth. This mythical academy really exists and turns wild partying scholars into professional consultants that are experts in the magical world of data. After the academy, most employees sta...

🏃🏽You can definitely say, we have an above average interest in sports at Dataroots! 🏃🏻‍♀️

One of our endurance endeavours: the Jogclub popular podcast on our playlist! So we thought it would be a cool idea to partner up with them. In a series of blogposts, Seppe and Bobby are happy to serve as guinea pigs to some experiments. We’ll then deep dive into the data coming out of those experiments and check if our assumptions hold up. This series will reach a summit on April 10th when we’ll co-organise the Jogclub Ultra, a 59km running event in Herent.

This blogpost takes you on a journey putting running power to the test.
👉 https://dataroots.io/research/contributions/running-power

If you’d have any hypotheses you’ve always wanted to test, definitely let us know!

Running Power - Thibauld Braet Bij dataroots lopen er heel wat sportievelingen rond en zijn we niet vies van af en toe een impulsieve uitdaging. Eigenschappen die we absoluut gemeenschappelijk hebben met Bobby en Seppe, de hosts van de Jogclub podcast. Impulsiviteit heeft zeker en vast zijn charme, een stijgend aantal wearables h...

🚀 Starting the week with another blogpost!

Anomaly detection typically refers to the task of finding unusual or rare items that deviate significantly from what is considered to be the "normal" majority. In this blogpost, Toon explains his approach to detect anomalies in medical images using PatchCore.
👉 https://dataroots.io/research/contributions/anomaly-detection-in-images-using-patchcore

Anomaly detection in images using PatchCore - Toon Van Craenendonck Anomaly detection typically refers to the task of finding unusual or rare items that deviate significantly from what is considered to be the "normal" majority. In this blogpost, we look at image anomalies using PatchCore [https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08265]. Next to indicating which images are anomalo...

🚀 This week two new people joined the team! Welcome Oliver and Jonas!
We are looking forward to get to know you and work together!

🆕 New year, new Dataroots merchandise!
Do you like our newest jackets?

After one month of training at Dataroots, some members of our last Rootsacademy worked on an internal project. This year, the challenge consists of making an end-to-end solution for inference of traffic images. In this post, the cloud-infra team will go over the implemented infrastructure and give tips and tricks to beginners of Terraform and AWS. Our aim is to explain things clearly, such that you, the reader, can get a better understanding of the concepts used. In this post, Bauduin and Jinfu describe their experience as starter with Terraform and AWS.
👉 https://dataroots.io/research/contributions/tips-and-tricks-on-how-to-setup-an-aws-infrastructure-with-terraform-for-beginners

Setting up AWS Infrastructure Using Terraform for Beginners - Jinfu Chen, Baudouin Martelée After one month of training at dataroots, some starters work on the internal project. The project of the Rootsacademy 2022 Q3 class consists of making an end-to-end solution for inferring information from traffic images. It goes without saying that this end-to-end solution requires infrastructure. I...

🔊 Last Month, the Beatroots team was invited by Breinwijzer to explain their project and how AI can help artists’ creativity. Don’t miss out on this nice podcast!

👉 https://www.breinwijzer.be/studio-brein/5-mens-versus-machine-wat-ai-ons-kan-leren-over-onze-eigen-intelligentie/

#5 Mens versus machine. Wat AI ons kan leren over onze eigen intelligentie Artificiële intelligentie spreekt tot de verbeelding. Maar kan het ons ook iets leren over onze eigen intelligentie? Waarin zijn slimme machines beter dan mensen — en waarin (nog) niet? Shalini Van den Langenbergh zoekt het uit samen met techniekfilosoof Lode Lauwaert en neurowetenschapper Tom Ve...

🎄 It’s never too late to celebrate Christmas right?

Sophie had written a very nice post about how she used the latest Stable diffusion model to generate video clips, in collaboration with Prismax.
👉 https://dataroots.io/research/contributions/create-your-own-christmas-miracle-with-ai-generated-art

🏆 At our lastest Rootsconf, we organised our for the first time. All colleagues had the chance to vote for 8 different categories and the results were announced at the closing ceremony of a day full of knowledge sharing sessions.

🤫 But we did have one more surprise category, because after all, without our office hero, there was no Rootsconf. Jolien took the lead in the practical organisation, helping to make this edition a success!

Congratulations to Cynthia, Virginie, Jolien, Margaux, Tim, Vitale, Tim, Murilo and Silke!

🔁 At Dataroots, in 2022, we spent more than 1800 hours of 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬!

We had 2 RootsConfs, 48 internal sharing sessions, a training around dbt, an immersion day with AWS, a workshop about image segmentation and many more internal knowledge exchanges!

Is learning in your new year resolutions? Then don’t hesitate to join us and contribute to a culture of sharing passion and expertise!

🏆 A great way to start the year!

We are very proud that Virginie’s piece on why Green AI is so important, made the top 20 most read opinions on DataNews! 👉 https://datanews.knack.be/ict/nieuws/de-22-best-gelezen-opinies-van-2022/article-news-1923307.html?cel_hash=73ce25a616bbdddbdfbecd9e287bd7a31ad8ae99&chts=1672758736&utm_source=Newsletter-23/12/2022&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Newsletter-RNBDATANNL

If you want to read the full piece, check out our blog!
👉 https://dataroots.io/research/contributions/is-ai-an-eco-disaster-from-software-to-hardware

De 22 best gelezen opinies van 2022 Data News publiceerde ook dit jaar een reeks zeer gesmaakte - en fel gedebatteerde - opinies. Over NFT's, VR, big tech en AI, dit waren de meest gelezen opinies.

✨ Happy 2023!

Is creating a data strategy part of your new year’s resolutions? Definitely read the post of Ben to get inspired and kick start this year with the right data and AI strategy!

👉 https://dataroots.io/research/contributions/how-to-develop-a-business-driven-data-strategy-for-different-operating-models

🚀 Another great edition of our very own Rotosconf!

Last Friday, we organised another edition of our Rootsconf. The whole team enjoyed a full day of knowledge sharing, workshops and catching up with the colleagues.

🎶 The Beatroots team continues to tell about how to write a hit song with AI. This time, Sander tells the story of how the team finetuned a transformer model to generate musical lyrics for their hit song.
👉 https://dataroots.io/research/contributions/song-of-the-machines-3-generating-lyrics-with-musical-context

Song of the machines (3) : Generating lyrics with musical context. - Sander Van Grunderbeeck In this episode of “Can 4 Dataroots colleagues without music production experience write hit songs with AI?” you discover how the Beatroots team finetuned a transformer model to generate musical lyrics for their hit song. --------------------------------------------------------------------------...

📄 Detecting drift in your data is very important when deploying models in production. It ensures that the performance of your model does not decrease due to the nature of the input data changing. There are a lot of tools out there for monitoring your data and detecting drift such as Great expectations, NannyML,... . However most of these are made for tabular data. In this blogpost Martial and Warre discuss different approaches for detecting drift in images using popular tools.
👉 https://dataroots.io/research/contributions/tokyo-drift-detecting-drift-in-images-with-nannyml-and-whylogs

Tokyo Drift : detecting drift in images with NannyML and Whylogs - Warre Dreesen, Martial Van den Broeck Detecting drift in your data is very important when deploying models in production. It ensures that the performance of your model does not decrease due to the nature of the input data changing. There are a lot of tools out there for monitoring your data and detecting drift such as Great expectations...

🏆 Congratulations to all the students that participated to the Data 4 Good challenge! We are happy we could share our expertise and know how in this !

If you want to know more about the challenge, the team that won the best technical solution wrote a nice short story about it! 👉 https://medium.com//how-we-managed-to-win-the-best-technical-solution-price-of-the-data-4-good-challenge-b84e49e6ba06

Two weeks ago, our colleagues Chiel and Yagmur taught MLOps and AI ethics to the students of Thomas More.

It was a small group of students so they could really engage with them and focus on the topics they were most interested in. A very cozy environment and a lot of interest from the students, we will do it again!

🚀 Another Data Engineer joined the team!

Yesterday Dzani joined the Dataroots team. We are very excited and looking forward to working together!

Last Thursday, Dataroots was present at the Data4Good challenge organized by Emergent Leuven. Training the future generation and sharing our passion and expertise is at the heart of our organisation, which is why we are very much keen of these types of initiatives!

Silke gave a very nice presentation on “Always look at the graph side of life”, to go from introducing graphs till graph neural networks. Then our team of experts stayed to support the students and help them in their urban planning challenge!

"The organisation of the event was impeccable, rarely have I seen so much professionalism from a student organisation. I think this drove the students to be very motivated, because they showed some terrific out-of-the box thinking, creativity and just dedication to solve a complex problem statement in just 4 hours.” says Tim.

Thanks for organising such a nice event Gunho!

🎂 2022 marks the 20 year anniversary of the role of Chief Data Officer. In this 20 year span, between the day Catherine Doss stepped up as Chief Data Officer of Capital One and today, the role has been in constant evolution.

In this article, Kevin asks the question whether this role is still hot or not and in hindsight checks the role evolution and trend. 👉 https://dataroots.io/research/contributions/is-the-role-of-chief-data-officer-still-hot-or-not

Is the role of Chief Data Officer still hot or not? - KEVIN MISSOORTEN The role of Chief Data Officer evolved a lot since being first introduced twenty years ago. Given the paradigm shift to the Data Mesh, some experts argue that the CDO’s responsibilities might once again drastically change. Leading to the discussion whether the role is still necessary or not. In 20...

🏎️ Work hard, play hard!

Earlier this month, our Data & Cloud engineering team went on a teambuilding trip: first they went karting and afterward they had a nice dinner together in Leuven!

△ We are very proud to be part of the eco system of TRAIL!

TRAIL aims at creating a structure allowing to mobilize the research and innovation capacities of the Walloon and Brussels regions for their socio-economic development in the field of Artificial Intelligence in coherence with the regional policies conducted in this field.

The collaboration with Anne-Laure and Benoit has been great. We hope to further collaborate and we are happy to see the project evolve!

🌍 Digital technology is often seen as the panacea for the climate crisis. But is this really so obvious? During the panel discussion “In the cloud, or out of the ground?” several experts on climate and technology, including our colleague Tim Leers had the opportunity to take a critical look at digitalisation, including digital twins and artificial intelligence, as a lifesaver for the climate crisis. Thanks for the inspiring evening, De Virtuele Mens & Climate Festival Antwerpen!

Are you curious about how AI can play a positive role in the climate industry? Or would you like to contribute to reducing the ecological impact of AI? Have a look at the articles of Virginie Marelli!

📄 How can we avoid that AI turns into an ecological disaster?
https://datanews.knack.be/ict/nieuws/hoe-vermijden-we-dat-ai-uitdraait-in-een-ecologische-ramp/article-opinion-1865833.html (Article in Dutch)
📄 Is AI an ecological disaster?
https://dataroots.io/research/contributions/is-ai-an-eco-disaster-from-software-to-hardware
📄 AI as a catalyst for innovation (also for the climate crisis!)
https://dataroots.io/research/contributions/ai-a-catalyst-for-innovation

📣 Do you want to learn how to do voice cloning? This tutorial demonstrates how a simple voice transfer app can be created using Streamlit.

👉 https://dataroots.io/research/contributions/real-time-voice-cloning-tutorial

Real-Time Voice Cloning - tutorial - Virginie Marelli This tutorial demonstrates how a simple voice transfer app can be created using Streamlit [https://www.streamlit.io/]. The code for this demo is based on the repository for Real-Time-Voice-Cloning [https://github.com/CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning]. This app allows you to: * Record your voice * V...

Welcome to the team, Viktor and Timothy! 🤩

This week two new colleagues joined Dataroots! After a short break, Viktor rejoined Dataroots in a new position. He will strengthen the team as a Junior Business Developer. Timothy joined the team as a Data Engineer! We are looking forward to working together!! 🚀

📣 Don't miss our last Meetup of 2022!

Our last Meetup of this year is focussing on our Rootsacademy project. In September, we hired 18 new starters and trained them for one month to the latest technologies and tools. After this intense month of training, they developed a POC to productionalize a Hugging Face Vision transformer model on AWS to detect road users from images. Furthermore, they implemented image monitoring and data drift with Great Expectations and NannyML. Besides this interesting project, our next Meetup is the ideal reason 𝐭𝐨 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐭!

Register 👉 https://lnkd.in/eveTjaxB