The next reading (well, watching) is "SIGIR 2016 Tutorial on Counterfactual Evaluation and Learning for Search, Recommendation and Ad Placement" http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~adith/CfactSIGIR2016/
Please try to read it before the meetup. It's OK if you don't understand it all. The meetup is for questions and discussion.
Schedule:
6:00PM Doors are open, feel free to mingle
6:30 Reading Group starts
~7:45 Off to a nearby restaurant for food, drinks, and breakout discussions
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What is the Data Science Reading Group about?:
We will meet every other Wednesday of every month and present/discuss a topic of interest.
The group votes on the topic/paper to read next time. Anyone can propose a paper for the following Meetup.
Discussions about this meetup also happen on Slack and Discord. To join Slack, go here: http://vantech.herokuapp.com/ To join Discord, go here: https://discord.gg/EpJPUks Once you're in, join the #data-science channel.
A list of past papers, both discussed and proposed, is available here: https://github.com/learn-data-science/data-science-reading