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

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 CoP
vzw European Data Innovation Hub asbl

Agenda
4. V2.0 -> Open CoP

 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)

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Levelofengagement
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
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Patterns of contribution
Ref: Jacob Nielson http://www.useit.com/alertbox/participation_inequality.html
Number of participants
Numberofcontributions
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
4. V2.0 -> Open CoP

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
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Founders 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.
17May 2015 | Brussels Data Science Community | @datasciencebe | datasciencebe.com|

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Sharing & Learning by doing data4good projects

Agenda
4. V2.0 -> Open CoP

We celebrate success
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Ugent wins Kaggle
BDSC 3rd hackepilepsy
... Colin ends 2nd in Kaggle
... Bigbards.io wins public vote @Strata
...

We do datascience surveys

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We share the data of our surveys

We do the Data Innovation Summit
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Agenda

We do bootcamps

We do Sandboxes

We do data for good projects
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We send teams to hackethons

We participate and do discounts
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• More jobs here
• How to benefit from free job posting
• Review of the Top 5 job post in 2015
We advertise job opportunities
We do job adds

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
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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
 BBQ

Agenda
4. V2.0 -> Open CoP

V2.0 -> Open CoP
• 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

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Philippe Van Impe
Driver @ Brussels Data Science Community
pvanimpe@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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