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Preparations for a Post-Pandemic Retail Environment

Business + Management Conferences ODSC Speaker East 2021posted by ODSC Community March 1, 2021

Covid-19 has challenged us to redesign multiple aspects of our life and this has inevitably led to wide-ranging impact across business in multiple different sectors. The retail industry has especially been disrupted as people seek convenience from the safety and comforts of their homes. As the... Read more

Brand Voice: Deep Learning for Speech Synthesis

Conferences Deep Learning Modeling ODSC Speaker East 2021posted by ODSC Community March 1, 2021

The production of artificial natural-sounding human speech is a fascinating topic due to its complexity and surprising results, with applications that range from chatbots to the automatization of audio content in news media. One obvious example of a Text-to-Speech (TTS) application for news media is a... Read more

Building a Robust Data Pipeline with the “dAG Stack”: dbt, Airflow, and Great Expectations

Conferences Modeling ODSC Speaker AirFlow East 2021 Great Expectationsposted by ODSC Community March 1, 2021

Data quality has become a much-discussed topic in the fields of data engineering and data science, and it has become clear that ensuring data quality is absolutely crucial to avoiding a case of “garbage in – garbage out”. Apache Airflow and dbt (data build tool) are... Read more

Building a Holistic Risk Profile: Near Real-Time Approach to Insider Threat Detection

Business + Management Conferences Modeling ODSC Speaker cybersecurity East 2021posted by ODSC Community February 24, 2021

Each year, organizations and research firms output yearly Cybersecurity Threat and Breach predictions. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a global shift has occurred, forcing organizations to adapt to a “new normal” that includes a more distributed remote workforce. In turn, this has greatly affected data theft.... Read more

PyTorch Lightning: From Research to Production, Minus the Boilerplate

Conferences Deep Learning Modeling ODSC Speaker East 2021 PyTorch Lightningposted by ODSC Team February 23, 2021

The following post introduces PyTorch Lightning, outlines its core design philosophy, and provides inline examples of how this philosophy enables more reproducible and production-capable deep learning code. What is PyTorch Lightning? PyTorch Lighting is a lightweight PyTorch wrapper for high-performance AI research. Simply put, PyTorch Lightning... Read more

AI and the Fight against Fake News & Fake Stats

Business + Management Conferences ODSC Speaker East 2021 Fake Newsposted by ODSC Community February 15, 2021

One of the biggest challenges facing society today is the proliferation of fake news and fake stats. It is relatively easy, today, to come up with statistics and charts that can bolster dubious claims. But, it is much more difficult to counter such claims. And it... Read more

Dataset Management for Computer Vision

Conferences Modeling ODSC Speaker Computer Vision Dataset Management East 2021posted by ODSC Community February 15, 2021

When building computer vision solutions, the emphasis is usually on the modeling side and on leveraging the latest algorithm. While the model is important, in my experience I have found that an even more important component to delivering a successful solution is to build and maintain... Read more

Scaling LightGBM with Dask

Conferences Modeling ODSC Speaker dask East 2021 LightGBMposted by ODSC Community February 10, 2021

LightGBM is an open-source framework for solving supervised learning problems with gradient-boosted decision trees (GBDTs). It ships with built-in support for distributed training, which just means “using multiple machines at the same time to train a model”. Distributed training can allow you to train on larger... Read more

Measure Twice, Model Once

Conferences Machine Learning Modeling ODSC Speaker East 2021posted by ODSC Community February 4, 2021

Supervised machine learning is essentially classification: ball vs strike; dog vs cat vs horse vs cow; etc. For these types of problems, the most fundamental question is always: can I create an accurate and generalized model (classifier) from the data I have collected? Today, the only... Read more

Data Visualization for Data Scientists – Choosing the Right Tool for the Job

Conferences Data Visualization Modeling ODSC Speaker altair bokeh East 2021 matplotlib plotly plotnine seabornposted by ODSC Community February 4, 2021

Photo for Data Visualization for Data Scientists by David Pisnoy on Unsplash. Data visualization sometimes gets categorized as a field separate from machine learning or data science. Skill in designing effective, attractive plots and graphs doesn’t show up in job descriptions in the same way as... Read more