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Integrating Textual and Visual Information Into a Powerful Visual Search Engine

Conferences Modeling Conferences visual searchposted by Pat Lasserre February 13, 2019

GSI Technology recently hosted a panel discussion on visual search at ODSC West 2018. The panel featured presentations from Clarifai, eBay, Google, Walmart Labs/Jet.com, and Wayfair. This blog post summarizes Walmart Labs/Jet.com’s panel presentation from the conference. Their presentation showed how they used Elasticsearch, a popular text search engine, to build a... Read more

5 Ways To Make The Most Out Of An Expo Hall Experience

Accelerate AI Conferences Featured Post Accelerate AI Conferencesposted by Elizabeth Wallace February 5, 2019

The expo hall is an exciting part of any conference. There’s so much going on, the freebies, the new tech, the possibility of finding your next big thing. I know you’re tempted to wing it, but you’d be making a mistake going in without a clear plan of action.... Read more

Why Consumers Should Trust Companies with Their Data

Accelerate AI Conferences Healthcare Conferences Healthcare ODSC Westposted by Spencer Norris, ODSC December 13, 2018

Hugo Pinto is an asthmatic. He’s aware of the environmental triggers that can induce an asthma attack, but he wasn’t satisfied with the option that faces most asthmatics: wait until an attack happens, and treat the symptoms once it does. At a hackathon, Pinto teamed up with other developers... Read more

Layer-wise Relevance Propagation Means More Interpretable Deep Learning

Conferences Deep Learning Conferences Deep Learning ODSC Europeposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC December 5, 2018

Wojciech Samek is head of machine learning for Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute. At ODSC Europe 2018, he spoke about an active area of research in deep learning: interpretability. Samek launched his lecture with the following preface on the rising importance of interpretability of deep learning models: “In the last number of... Read more

Mail Processing with Deep Learning: A Case Study

Conferences Deep Learning Conferences Deep Learning Machine Learning ODSC Europeposted by Paxtyn Merten November 29, 2018

Businesses increasingly delegate simple, boring, and repetitive tasks to artificial intelligence. In a case study, Alexandre Hubert — lead data scientist of software company Dataiku’s U.K. operations — worked on a team of three to automate mail processing with deep learning. At ODSC Europe 2018, Hubert detailed how his team... Read more

Olivier Blais of Moov AI on His Experience as a Speaker at ODSC West 2018

Conferences Conferences ODSC Westposted by Olivier Blais November 29, 2018

I am back from Open Data Science Conference (ODSC West) in California. What a blast! Not only was I able to present my talk on the democratization of AI, but I have learned a lot of very interesting stuff! I honestly am impressed by the projects and technologies presented... Read more

Handling Missing Data in Python/Pandas

Conferences Modeling Python Tools & Languages Conferences ODSC West Pandas Pythonposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC November 21, 2018

Key Takeaways: It’s important to describe missing data and the challenges it poses. You need to clarify a confusing terminology that further adds to the field’s complexity. You should take the time to review methods for handling missing data. You need to learn how to apply robust multiple imputation... Read more

Thomas Wiecki of Quantopian on ‘Minding the Gap’ Between Statistics and Machine Learning at ODSC Europe 2018

Conferences Modeling Statistics Conferences Machine Learning ODSC Europe Statisticsposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC November 20, 2018

Key Takeaways: It’s important for data scientists to understand the so-called “gap” between statistics and machine learning, and how there actually is a lot of commonality between the two; it’s just a matter of how you look at things. PyMC3 is a very useful probabilistic programming framework for Python.... Read more

Active Learning: Your Model’s New Personal Trainer

Conferences Modeling Conferences Machine Learning ODSC Europeposted by Brandon Dey, ODSC November 20, 2018

First, some facts. Fact: active learning is not just another name for reinforcement learning; active learning is not a model; and no, active learning is not deep learning. What active learning is and why it may be an important component of your next machine learning project was the subject... Read more

ODSC West 2018 Review: Have You Been to Machine Learning Mecca?

Conferences ODSC ODSC West odsc west 2018posted by Brandon Dey, ODSC November 9, 2018

With ODSC West 2018 in the history logs, it didn’t disappoint. Conferences can be overblown, and usually in proportion to the number of buzzwords marketed in its runup. ODSC West wasn’t; I went home with a number of practical tricks I will apply to the machine learning problems that... Read more