The title is “Star Wars, The F#orce Awakens”, which is obviously playing with the title of the movie and is about using F# for analyzing the Star Wars universe. I used F# to extract social networks from scripts of all the movies that are online and constructed social networks from that and then analyzed them and found some differences between the movies and who are the central people there. I will be talking about the whole process, how I did it and through that I will show some of the concepts in F# that are going to be used for analyzing data and accessing data easily.

F# and R, and I am showing a bit how F# interoperates with R. Because the data pre-processing can be done in F# and then call R directly from F# and get results back into F# again.

I want to make people aware that F# is a nice language for working with data. If you are doing any data science or machine learning, 95% of your time is spent getting data into a usable shape and I think F# is a great language for that thanks to type providers and other features that I will be showing. I also want to inspire people a bit to play with data science because that is the way to learn these concepts, to play with data. If you have nice interpretable data set like Star Wars networks, it’s easy to apply some algorithms to it and see how they work. Then they can apply them to their own data because right now, people have a lot of data on customers, or their Twitter networks. Once you know how the methods work, it is easier to apply them to something else.