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Introducing Machine Learning to a business for the first time

Neill Sweeney gives a talk for Dublin Data Science looking back at a project from a decade ago: building and deploying a recommender system for a car rental website. He walks through the business problem, his approach, the difficulties he r

Starts

2026-10-01T17:30:00+00:00

Organizer

Dublin Data Science

Location

Dogpatch Labs, The CHQ Building, Custom House Quay, Dublin, Ireland

Neill Sweeney gives a talk for Dublin Data Science looking back at a project from a decade ago: building and deploying a recommender system for a car rental website. He walks through the business problem, his approach, the difficulties he ran into, and how the system reached production. The talk touches on mixture models, stochastic gradient descent, discrete choice modelling, significance testing and purchasing power parity. Sweeney holds a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence, where he specialised in poker AI, and speaks about connecting theory with real-world implementation — what worked, what did not, and what carried over to later data science work.