DataScienceforBusiness

Data Science for Business is a one-year master program at Ghent Uni. teaching data analytics since 1999, which makes it the longest-running program in the world

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

See our visual report of the 2026 Edition of the “Current DS4B students meet alumni” Event: #PredictiveAnalytics #Orms #Analytics #Python #AI #GenAI #opensource https://t.co/gjA3nOW2w3

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

An informative and fun way to start the day with The Data Whisperer (Scott Taylor) Keynote at the @INFORMS @2026_Analytics Conference in Washington, D.C.
Data Storytelling is at the core of what we do. #ORMS #DS4B #DataScienceforBusiness #AI #GenAI #Storytelling

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

This morning’s plenary at the @INFORMS Analytics+ Conference in Washington, D.C. It’s a great event where business meets academia. So, networking and knowledge sharing is at the core of the event. #orms #analytics #AI #LLM #data #dataanalytics

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

Great talk by Dr. Matthew Lanham (@MatthewALanham, https://t.co/QaTVqOiakq) on the Data4Good project at the @INFORMS MAPD Event: https://t.co/pUkULS2CKC

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

Great keynote talk by Dr. Sherry Yang (NYU & Google DeepMind) bridging language, agents, world models at the L-A-W Workshop at NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego, CA #NeurIPS2025 #Robotics #ReinforcementLearning #RL

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

After a very interesting #NeurIPS2025 conference, it’s now time for the workshops. I’m attending the Generative AI in Finance workshop. #NeurIPS #Finance #Trading #PortfolioOptimization #ORMS

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

Inspiring keynote talk by Dr. Kyunghyun Cho (NYU) on what we do in computer science at the NeurIPS 2025 conference in San Diego, CA: Problem Solving is key. #NeurIPS2025 #DataScience #NeurIPS

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

We have lift-off at the 2025 #NeurIPS Conference in San Diego, CA. I’m kicking it off with Shopify’s Generative Recommenders Session https://t.co/M7VHKn9ALQ
#NeurIPS25 #NeurIPS2025

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

In Today’s Session of my #BigDataAnalytics Class Dylan talks about the latest developments in the transformer architecture (#LLMs, large-language models, #NLP). He discusses how to implement them in #Python notebooks. #DataEngineering #DataScience #DataAnalytics #OpenSource #orms

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

On my way to the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA to present our innovative LLM research on uncovering service quality of airports using ModernBERT and LLaMa 3.3 70B. I’ll apply our new methodology to the ATL Airport. @INFORMS @INFORMS2025 #INFORMS2025 #ORMS #GenAI #LLM

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

Great talk by Sumit Gulwani (@SumitGulwani, Microsoft) on improving AI reasoning by using intent, interaction, inspection, and memory (see last picture) at #KDD2025 in Toronto, Canada. #AI #LLM #CodeGeneration

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

Great talk by Dan Roth on the limitations of using LLMs for reasoning at the #KDD2025 Conference in Toronto. Being linguistically coherent is much easier than we thought (that’s what LLMs have taught us). Use LLMs to generate (Python) code to solve hard problems. #AI #LLMs #ORMS

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

Today, I started with the Test of Time Award talk at the #KDD2025 Conference in Toronto. Superb talk by Hao Wang on Deep Recommender Systems (RECSYS). He gave a great overview of how the field evolved over time, and the next steps. #AI #RecSys

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

My personal #KDD2025 Day 2 is all about #finance ranging from using AI to enhance safety, AI in credit, and data-driven pricing #AI #llm #timeseries #finetuning #dataleakage

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

Building scenario planning solutions for supply chain optimization using LLMs (large language models) at the #KDD2025 Workshop AI for Supply Chain. #FlandersMake #REMASC #AI See example on the slides in the pictures.

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

We have liftoff at the 2025 KDD Conference in Toronto, ON. #KDD2025 I’m attending the Workshop on AI for Supply Chain relevant to our REMASC. Supply chain planning faces two sources of complexity: radical uncertainty (e.g., use scenario planning) and need for good predictions.

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

Today marks the start of presentations of the “Data Science for Business” (@UGent) projects. This particular project is for #FlandersMake using #RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) #LLM technology to build a #chatbot. https://t.co/ExKl9Pxptb #orms #DataScience

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

We have lift-off at the 2025 @INFORMS Marketing Science Conference in Washington, DC. Hot topics include #GenAI, #LLM, #RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation), #Marketing #Analytics, #ecommerce, #ORMS

[AlmaLinux @AlmaLinux]

🚀💜🦁 AlmaLinux OS 10.0 codenamed “Purple Lion” is now GA!

Here's what it brings ⬇️
- Frame pointers are enabled by default
- Secure Boot for Intel/AMD and ARM platforms
- SPICE support is fully re-enabled
+ more!
https://t.co/feXOPEgN5g

[Dirk Van den Poel @dirkvandenpoel]

Last week, the 2025 Edition of our “Current Data Science for Business Students Meet Alumni” Event took place at @UGentFEB (Ghent University). #ORMS #DataScience #DataAnalytics

https://t.co/nzqyfRUmvE