How to build a Community of Practice (CoP) + How we build the Brussels Data Science Community

How we build a Community of Practices

for Datasciences

Learning and Sharing through

Community of PracticeCoP V1.0 -> V2.0

Philippe Van Impe

@pvanimpe

pvanimpe@gmail.com

Agenda

1. V1.0 - Defining: Community of Practice – CoP

2. V1.5 - How we build the open CoP for Datascience in Brussels

3. Activites we like to do

4. V2.0 -> Open CoPvzw European Data Innovation Hub asbl

Agenda

puts you in touch with like-minded colleagues and peers

allows you to share your experiences and learn from others

allows you to collaborate and achieve common outcomes

accelerates your learning

validates and builds on existing knowledge and good practice

provides the opportunity to innovate and create new ideas

Communities of Practice

“a group of people who share a concern, set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge

and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis.” (Wenger et al., 2002)

Type of engagement

Browse, search, learn(Anonymously)

Comment(with attribution)

Ask a question(with attribution)

Write a blog

Become a mentor

Become an expert

RegisterComment(Anonymously)

occasional

transactional

peripheral

active

facilitator

core group

lurkers

leaders

outsiders

experts

beginners

Patterns of contributionRef: Jacob Nielson http://www.useit.com/alertbox/participation_inequality.html

Number of participants

contrib

1% active contributors

9% occasional contributors

90% readers (aka ‘lurkers’)

The 1-9-90 rule

What makes a successful CoP?

clear purpose – what will it be used to do?

creating a safe and trusted environment

committed core group of active participants

being motivated

knowing the needs of participants

having a clear action plan with activities to meet needs

blending face-to-face and online activities

This can all be achieved by good, active facilitation

Agenda

Practical Case:How we build a

Community of Practices for Datasciences

CoP V1.5

• Open• Non-commercial• Meetup group• Grasrooted• Focussed on personal development• Multiple Helix• Driven by volunteers• Fuelled by the desire to do Data4Good projects• Social corporate responsibility

16Founders of the Brussels Data Scence Community

Our mission is

to educate, inspire, empower scholars and

professionals

to apply data sciences

to address humanity’s grand challenges.

Sharing & Learning by doing data4good projects

Agenda

We do Monthly Meetups

We do event Visits

We do Coached Moocs

We Do networking

We do hands-on workshops

We celebrate success

Ugent wins Kaggle

BDSC 3rd hackepilepsy

... Colin ends 2nd in Kaggle

... Bigbards.io wins public vote @Strata

... May 2015 | Brussels Data Science Community | @datasciencebe | datasciencebe.com|

We do datascience surveys

We share the data of our surveys

We do the Data Innovation Summit

Agenda

We do video channels

We do blogs

We do bootcamps

We do Sandboxes

We do data for good projects

We send teams to hackethons

We participate and do discounts

• More jobs here• How to benefit from free job posting• Review of the Top 5 job post in 2015

May 2015 | Brussels Data Science Community | @datasciencebe | datasciencebe.com|

We advertise job opportunities

We do job adds

We do study visits

Some details about us:

1251 meetup group members 2545 @datasciencebe twitter followers 402 facebook page likes 860 linkedin group members March: 6,4k visitors & 16,8k views on www.datasciencebe.com more meetups scheduled before the summer On average more than 150 registered at each meetup average meetup registration 250 + 600 people answered the Data Innovation Survey Our Video channels are a great success

https://www.parleys.com/channel/datascience Datascience Youtube channel

Next activities

18/6 - Meetup: Datascience and Privacy & Security

Coached moocs Machine learning

Introduction to Bigdata with apache Spark

26/6 - Executive Class – The essence of predictive analytics

3,4,5/7 - Hackathon – Classics vs Big Data methods

9/7 - Garden Party Proclamation

Agenda

V2.0 -> Open CoP

vzw European Data Innovation Hub asbl

• Legal entity, professional with FTE

• Team of datascientists in residence on site

• Supported by a gentlemens’ club of corporations

• Multiple communities /startups /coworking

• 400 m² of shared office space in Brussels for

– Datascientist

– Startups

– Co-Working

• 12 fully equiped training rooms

• Ideal place for hackathons and sandboxes

• Social corporate responsibility

Thank You

Philippe Van ImpeDriver @ Brussels Data Science Communitypvanimpe@gmail.com@pvanimpe | 0477/ 23.75.42

“Coming together is a beginning;

keeping together is progress;

staying together is success.”

Henry Ford

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