Biography

Dr. Tim Frey is co-founder of the company iunera GmbH and Co. KG. Among other things, he holds a PhD from the university of Magdeburg and focuses on data science use cases and customer enablement. His computer science background is in the area of Business Intelligence and software architecture.

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Predicting Cryptocurrency Exchange Rates with Stream Processing, Social Data and Online Learning

In a recent project, iunera sought to determine if it is possible to predict crypto currency exchange rates by utilizing social data from Twitter. Tim will talk about their experiences and describe how they leveraged online learning in conjunction with social data to determine if they are able to predict future currency exchange rates. He’ll point out the general architecture and describe the most interesting findings.
The audience can learn from Tim’s experiences and pitfalls. The new possibilities that open up with more and more Kappa architectures in enterprises leverage new possibilities for real online learning. Therefore, the aspiration is to bring this field in general forward, by sharing insights.

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