Next week, Lukas is going to give last two from his lectures series on data science. First, on Tuesday, he will visit Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, from where he will move to Prague, on Thursday, this time to present data science to students of Institute of Economic Studies (Charles University).

Lukas talks tomorrow (Monday 25/4/2016) at Charles University in Prague about the importance of data in all areas of business today. Talks goes through the evolution of human productivity and points out the differences between data-driven and traditional approaches to solving a problem.

Lukas speaks at the Faculty of Business Administration of Masaryk University in Brno tomorrow (19th April) at 16:30 on the importance of having data driven mindset.

On 18th April, Knoyd will participate at pitching competition which is part of Pioneers Bratislava. We will have 3 minutes to present our startup to jury and will compete against 5 other start-ups.

In the next blog of our Knoyd series, we are going to show one of the ways of measuring impact of NBA players on the game. Everyone knows that all-stars like LeBron James or Stephen Curry have tremendous impact and they show it in every game on the floor. However, very often role players need to step up and save the game. This analysis is dedicated especially to these players and how they can change the game by their performance. The cornerstone of this analysis is the basic correlation between players‘ impact and result of the game. The way, how impact of an individual player is computed, will be described later on.

One of the exciting applications we got to work on recently is inspiration in travel. There are various kinds of travel people enjoy; travel for art, travel for nature, travel for history or travel for clubs. We all have our favourite kind. One of the very interesting problems for inspiration in travel is to determine what is an interesting thing to see in a particular place.

It has come. The most anticipated movie of this year was released and the Force has awakened. We have tracked the activity on Twitter before and after the release date to gain insight into the reactions of people and their feelings about the next episode of the most famous movie franchise in history.

Everyone keeps talking about data; its great value, utility, and the many benefits it offers. However, to many people all those might just seem like abstract concepts. That's why we want to show you what data means in real life: data to help, data to increase efficiency, and sometimes data just to amuse. We point out use cases where data science helped someone to solve a unique problem or to solve a very old problem in a unique way. We will demonstrate that data can help individuals, communities, as well as corporations and governments. It's not a universal solution to everything, but it is right up there :)

Knoyd is the result of our dreams and efforts and some hard work so far (and much more to come) and Knoyd is here now to help you know your data, as that’s exactly the key to success.