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Got an interview in "Journal des Grandes Ecoles" published.

Submitted the revised version of the Twitter paper!

Organizing bloc 2 of the exec training on "Gestion et valorisation des données en entreprise" with Chaire Segeco

Working on the field analysis of history of economic thought

Gave the first block of lectures in the new emlyon course "Gestion et valorisation des données", developed with Segeco.

Developed a website to share some content of this course: https://emlyon.github.io/chaire-segeco/

Gave two worskhops for O21, a student information event by Le Monde in Saint Etienne.

Teaching a seminar on Big data to the emlyon’s executive MBA at Casablanca

Teaching IoT for Entrepreneurs to BBA at Saint-Etienne

Worked on the redesign of my executive MBA course on data literacy

Improved the Twitter model for the paper submitted to M@n@gement

Lectured for the BBA cours "IoT for Entrepreneurs", then graded

Graded quite a few final theses of emlyon students

Coordination work for the MSc in DMDS

Prepared the first course on data management and valuation with Segeco, given by emlyon.

Continuing to prepare the pilote of the emlyon x Segeco exec module on data valuation.

My paper on the history of neuromarketing, co-authored with Ale Smidts and Paul Wouters, has been accepted for publication by Business History!

Participated to the conference organized by the magazine "Acteurs de l’Economie" on data: hope or threat?

Breakfast with journalists to present the MSc in DMDS. A picture of it here.

Facebook live Q&A for the MSc in DMDS on Nov 22.

Campus Channel live Q&A to present the MSc in DMDS on Nov 20! The video is already online.

Working with Margherita Pagani and Philippe Monin at the design of the next promotion of the MSc in DMDS

MSc program committee on Nov 26

Preparing a literature review on data valuation in the managerial literature for the Chaire Segeco

Co-organizing the Digital Night, first in edition in Paris! On Nov 21. Some pictures attached to this tweet and this one.

Debugged the code for the connected object in my course "IoT for Entrepreneurs" - it gave me some cold sweats!

Worked on a piece of writing presenting DATOM.

Still working on the R&R for our paper on fields, trying to get a dataset from a previously published study…​

Published in French on Linkedin Pulse: "Les managers et les APIs: par où commencer?" (link).

Twitter paper: presented our R&R in progress to the STORM seminar

Twitter paper: finished translating our Python code in Java for better debugging and speed of execution.

got feedback from colleague Ludivine Perray on her progress on data valuation field work for the Segeco Chaire. Instructive!

exec module now scheduled, program is designed, and most instructors found.

feedback from MSc in DMDS participants on the first steps of the program, useful to make some adjustments and to plan for evolutions next year.

automated the conversion of DATOM canvas in a variety of formats (pptx, png, pdf) with Google Apps Script

learned the basics of Angular, applied it to "Quality of Life", a personal project.

learned how to automate the securization of a bare metal server with a script running on my local Windows

got a one day training by an ex McKinsey on how to design a good brief and how to answer it - useful for my coaching of student’s theses!

got an R&R on our paper on Twitter! Started working on it.

launching the MS in DMDS in Paris with Margherita Pagani, assisted by Zina Bali.

working on an exec training module in data valuation for the Segeco Chaire

teaching IoT for Entrepreneurs to BBA in Saint Etienne

grading homework from two eMBA classes

start new project with Jean Savinien et al on academic performance.

interviewed two candidates for work on the Chaire, search still on going.

Launched the website for Datom

holidays

preparing for the launch of the MSc in DMDS in Sept

Going to PFIA for the first time (going with colleague Imène Brigui-Chtioui!). Not presenting but eager to familiarize more with the French speaking reearch community in AI.

Giving a 2-day class to executive MBAs in French (includes a visit to Cosmo Tech)

Giving a webinar on "IA and Business": 100 participants!

Keynote for Lyon Is Ia’s meetup on "AI and Education", emlyon Silex Building, July 26. Slides of my talk are here.

Third round (and last??) of review for my paper on the history of neuromarketing.

Giving a 2-day class to executive MBAs in English (includes a visit to Cosmo Tech)

Represented emlyon in a speech to candidates for the entrance exam.

Paper on Twitter is submitted!

Opening recruitments for the Data R&D Institute

Contributing to designing a certificate in PGM, which is an exec ed programme.

Second copil for the Chaire Segeco: setting up the various packages of the Chaire

Finishing the paper on Twitter data…​

Almost rounding up the admissions for the Msc in DMDS with Margherita Pagani - great rate of applications!

Still working weekly with Guillaume Lecuyer on DATOM

Doing the budgets for next year

Attending the Openvis Conference, organized by Lynn Cherny from the Data R&D Insitute at emlyon, then a mini conference (check the program: huge!!) in Lyon.

Preparing the list of courses to open in 2018/2019, in data science, AI and related fields.

Continuing on recruiting participants for the Msc in Digital Marketing and Data Science, with a campus day on May 26!

Giving a Master class to candidates interested in emlyon’s new executive MBA

last session of the course on "IoT for Entrepeneurs" at emlyon’s bba in Saint Etienne

a couple of days of research work with Jean and Mohamed - the finishing line before submission of our paper?

Chaire Segeco: getting up to speed!

Giving a class to Enedis staff on big data.

Giving a webinar to welcome the participants to "Data Literacy", the course I give in the executive MBA

finalizing the coding project to publish my course materials as books. Using Asciidoctor, custom extensions to Asciidoctor, Peecho and Amazon’s CreateSpace. Early draft of the book available for purchase here.

Working with Data R&D Institute’s members on the projects for 2018/2019.

Met with new colleague Guillaume Coqueret from the finance department with a strong interest in data science, he will give exciting courses in statistics with R!

Grading CODAPPS (2 assignments, 520 participants!) using a desktop app I built to speed up the examination of the assignments (check it here)

Giving the first module of TDO (exec ed training) with Guillaume Lecuyer in Paris. A 3 day course with great participants.

Class on "data-driven creation" for the digital booster programme by emlyon’s incubator.

Working on DATOM, a visual and step-by-step method to design data x business projects with Guillaume Lecuyer

Working the booklet edition of my courses and DATOM

Continuing working on the paper with Jean and Mohamed on Twitter data

First copil of the SEGECO Chaire with emlyon colleagues, Thierry Jacquin and Denis Genest

Meeting with students interested in giving a course on the blockchain

Meeting with students interested in the genre issue in higher ed

Uninstalled FB / Twitter / Instagram apps from my phone. Feeling much better without all the notifications!

2 Digital Nights successfully organized and delivered on March 1 and March 8! 9 companies, 90 students, lots of energy and pictures! (to come)

getting more time spent on Openvis, the conference organized by my colleague Lynn Cherny assisted by Renaud Demesmay and many teams from emlyon (events and communication mainly). Huge conference!

visit for 3 days at emlyon Casablanca campus to teach "Big data for business" to an emba class. Lots of experience and energy.

back to Casablanca to meet our colleague Imene Brigui-Chtioui with the Data R&D Institute.

time spent on manoeuvring on our Msc in Digital Marketing and Data Science in Paris. News to come!

some days scheduled to finish up our paper on the investigation of fields via Twitter mining, with Jean and Mohamed.

lots of work on Codapps to publish the last lessons of the course: students must code a mobile app version of the cookie clicker!

planning the courses for 2018/2019 in data at emlyon with the team of the data r&d institute

reviewing a paper for the Journal of Economic Methodology

Continue renewing the lessons on Codapps: adding Modules 4 and 5: how to release an app on Google and Apple' App Stores, and the basic of code.

solving 80+ issues on Github opened by the students of Codapps

successfully added an interactive Java console in web pages for coding lessons! Embed it in your pages too!

two weeks of intense research writing with Mohamed and Jean

first admission jury for our Msc in Digital Marketing and Data science

welcome Karthik Suresh and Doreid Ammar, who join emlyon and the Data R&D Institute!

The brochure for the Msc in Digital Marketing and Data Science is out! Pdf version here

Work on DATOM with G Lecuyer

Continue working on the pedagogical structure of the Msc.

Assisting in launching the course by Yoann Allardin on mnemotechnics: boost your memory! at emlyon business school - first class is on Feb 27!

Publishing theses and podcasts by emlyon students on data science x biz (theses are here, podcasts are there).

coordinating with 10 companies who will participate in the 2 editions of the Digital Night for 2018: March 1st for consulting groups, Marc 8th for diverse industries.

presenting the Msc in DMDS at the emlyon Campus Day at Ecully on Feb 27th evening.

Co-organized the workshop on "Transforming your data into a patrimony" with SEGECO at the Entreprise du Futur event.

Launched the 3-year Chaire on the "evaluation of data" with SEGECO. See the press release.

Hosted Balthazar de Lavergne from The Family for the first class of Codapps at emlyon - with 500 students in attendance!

Started monitoring the Q&As for Codapps on Github! Just a couple of issues so far, but all dealt with successfully.

Interviewing candidates, going to a #highered fair, doing a live Q&A, working on a brochure…​ for our Msc in Digital Marketing and Data Scienc to launch in Sept 2018 in Paris!

Continuing to teach IoT for Entrepreneurs for the BBA at St-Etienne.

Still working on the Twitter project, coaching a team on a related Twitter study in Jean Savinien’s class (including 2 students from Epitech Lyon!)

Helping a student launch his own course at emlyon on mnemotechnics

End of my supervision and defense for a project by engineering student Yuhan Wang at Ecole des Mines de St-Etienne. She had to design a portal for an API service and she did an excellent job!

With Alexander Fries doing all the work, we launched a series of podcasts on data x biz: each episode is an interview of a professional. These interviews were made in the course "Big data for business" in the first semester of this year.

reviewing a paper for M@n@gement

Launching the Msc in Digital Marketing and Data Science with Margherita Pagani and the teams at emlyon! → http://graduate.em-lyon.com/en/MSc-in-Digital-Marketing-Data-Science

Renewing CODAPPS in a format hosted on Github: https://seinecle.github.io/codapps

Grading! Lots of grading!

Coordinating the activities of the Data R&D Institute with the team (Renaud, Lynn and Jean)

Organized the screening of "Nothing 2 Hide" at emlyon

Involved in internal projects at emlyon on skills / competencies, on the new version of our executive programs, on the new version of the Programme Grande Ecole.

Working with Jean Savinien and PhD student Mohamed Benabdelkrim on Twitter networks

Finalized two recruitments in data science for emlyon!

Getting in touch with the Digital League in the Loire region

Attended the 2017 edition of the Complex Network conference in Lyon

Finished teaching Big data for business and Internet of Things for Entrepreneurs

Taught a 3 days course with Guillaume Lecuyer on "Tech disruption and business impact" to a business audience in Certificat TDO by emlyon, once in Paris and once in Lyon.

Teaching two courses and updating their websites: Big data for business and Internet of Things for Entrepreneurs

Speaker at the BFM 01 Business Forum on the digital transformation of firms

Filming short video clips of experts on IoT - check the bottom page of http://seinecle.github.io/IoT4Entrepreneurs

Organizing work of the Data R&D Institute with colleagues Renaud Demesmay, Lynn Cherny and Jean Savinien.

preparing the workshop on DiscoverText by Stu Shulman, to take place on Nov 2 in Paris.

Got my paper on the history of sociobiology published! Wow! The editor’s "online first" version is here, blog post and open access version to follow.

Participated to the R Challenge as a specialist of dataviz and data mashups

Taught a lecture on "Big data and marketing" to Ecole Centrale de Lyon students

Too busy to fill this now page, apparently

Too much in holidays to fill this now page, apparently

Preparing the launch of a Data R&D Institute at emlyon! Curious? Get in touch.

Advanced on a new Msc for emlyon

Updating my "big data for business" course for 2017/2018

Created a MOOC "IoT for entrepreneurs" for the BBA on our campus at Saint Etienne. Video clips on Youtube soon!

submitted the 3rd and hopefully last revision of a paper from my previous life as a historian of science!

Developping a series of projects with a series of companies to promote our students.

still working on a fast algo for overlapping community detection

launched this app for my own use, but check it out: http://exploreyourdata.com/tiles

Got my Elasticsearch + Redis setup to work, to analyze a large dataset from text mining and graph mining perspectives. Great results so far!

Preparing the MOOC on connected objects, for a shooting in the first week of July.

Teaching a module on "Big data" to eMBA students

Participating to recruitment committees, jurys…​ (that’s the season for it)

More useful admin stuff to prepare for 2017/2018.

Got a minor revision before acceptance notice on a paper, more news on it when full acceptance is confirmed!

preparing a book made of the Gephi tutorials, still with Asciidoc. Discovering the world of xsl-fo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects

published a tutorial on Vosviewer: https://seinecle.github.io/vosviewer-tutorials/

teaching myself Linux security for the need of the Twitter project. Publishing what I learn as a tutorial: https://seinecle.github.io/linux-security-tutorials/

attending the Sido on April 5 to search for sponsors for my MOOC on IoT: http://www.sido-event.com/en/ (could not find time at the end :-(

teaching a couple of courses in MBA, supervising students.

practised Elasticsearch (with Kibana and Xpack for graphs) and Redis. Learned how to establish a connection between 2 Linux servers through SSH.

now up to 14 tutorials for Gephi, more in preparation

re-published the similarity-computer plugin for Gephi: https://gephi.org/plugins/#/plugin/similaritycomputer

last preparation for the emlyon’s digital night with 3DS, Accenture, Ada, Artefact and L’Oreal: http://data.em-lyon.com/2017/02/16/digital-night-2017/

last preparation for teaching the module "Technologies Digitales et Ruptures Business", with Guillaume Lecuyer from Visiativ and Romain Willmann (emlyon student and consultant) https://executive.em-lyon.com/Formations/Certificats/EMS02-Transformation-Digitale-des-Organisations

found the IoT object to use in my coming class (Sept 2017): a huzzah feather + OLED screen. But the huzzah with stacking headers is out of stock…​

re-submitted the neuromarketing paper!

co-steering the recruitment of 2 new positions in our department: one professor in marketing and data analytics, one instructor position in coding / Excel / SQL. Get in touch!

teaching at emlyon’s incubator, in our MSc in Marketing and Service Management and in our Programme Grande Ecole.

still hesitating on which object I should use to to teach a MOOC "Create a connected object, for beginners"

giving a webinar on Feb 09 on FrenchWeb to discuss dataviz for business.

finished the setup of my new Gephi tutorials. Adding more tutorials.

continuing supervising centrale lyon and emlyon students on a Twitter mapping project

organizing the "Digital Night", a career event on March 16 at Ecully, for our digitally / data inclined students and companies who’d like to hire them.

working with my colleague Margherita Pagani on extending em lyon business school’s course offering in digital marketing and business analytics (shht! secret plans!)

taking contacts to create a course on "creating connected objects, for beginners". Will be filmed, for emlyon students and as a MOOC on Coursera (hopefully). Students will learn how to create an object, for real. Get in touch if you are interested.

preparing for the launch of the TDO (Transformation Digitale des Organisations) certificate by EMLYON, taking place in March 2017 on our new Paris campus. I teach the first module on "data and tech for business", 16-18 March, on our Paris campus

reworking my Gephi tutorials to make them open and easy to publish in a variety of formats, with asciiidoc.

supervising centrale lyon and emlyon students on a Twitter mapping project

organizing the "Digital Night", a career event on March 16 at Ecully, for our digitally / data inclined students and companies who’d like to hire them.

resubmitting my paper on the history of neuromarketing, co-written with Ale Smidts and Paul Wouters. Fingers crossed.

going to the "Entreprise du Futur" event by Emlyon and Visiativ, in Lyon (January 19)

writing about Lotka and other things on Medium