ODSC Speakers: Blogs, Articles, and Tutorials from Data Science Experts

Forecasting with Cohort-Based Models

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Machine Learning Modeling Cohort-Based Models West 2021posted by ODSC Community October 19, 2021

Editor’s note: Nicolai Vicol is a speaker for ODSC West 2021. Check out his talk, “Forecasting with Cohort-Based Models,” there! Cohort-based models are an alternative to time series models when it comes to forecasting of paid subscriptions TLDR on Cohort-Based Models A company offering subscriptions (e.g.... Read more

Batteries-Included Workflow Orchestration Tool: Flyte

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Machine Learning Modeling Flyte MLOps West 2021posted by ODSC Community October 19, 2021

Editor’s note: The authors are speaking at ODSC West 2021. Be sure to check out their talk, “Deep Dive into Flyte,” there! Machine learning (ML) has been deployed in the industry for over a few decades, but the tooling to support researchers and engineers in this... Read more

GANs: A Brief Theory and Practice, and Image-to-Image Conversion with Pix2Pix

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Data Visualization Modeling Pix2Pix West 2021posted by ODSC Community September 13, 2021

Editor’s note: Ajay is a speaker for ODSC West 2021. Be sure to check out his talk, “GANs: Theory and Practice, Image Synthesis With GANs Using TensorFlow” to go beyond Pix2Pix there! There are prerequisites for making the most out of this blog. The reader should... Read more

Trustworthy AI: Operationalizing AI Models with Governance – Part 2

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Opinion West 2021posted by ODSC Community September 13, 2021

Editor’s note: Sourav Mazumder is a speaker for ODSC West 2021. Be sure to check out his talk, “Operationalization of Models Developed and Deployed in Heterogeneous Platforms,” for more info on trustworthy AI there. Read PART 1 of the series here. AI solutions can be made out... Read more

Reinforcement Learning with PPO

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Machine Learning Modeling Reinforcement Learning West 2021posted by ODSC Community September 8, 2021

Editor’s note: Oliver is a speaker for ODSC West 2021. Be sure to check out his talk, “Deep Dive into Reinforcement Learning with PPO using TF-Agents & TensorFlow 2.0,” there! Reinforcement Learning has a special place in the world of machine learning. Different from other forms... Read more

Trustworthy AI: Operationalizing AI Models with Governance – Part 1

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Opinion West 2021posted by ODSC Community September 8, 2021

Editor’s note: Sourav Mazumder is a speaker for ODSC West 2021. Be sure to check out his talk, “Operationalization of Models Developed and Deployed in Heterogeneous Platforms,” for more info on trustworthy AI there. Read PART 2 of the series here. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already... Read more

Multi-Modal Approach for Robotic Manipulation Tasks

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Machine Learning Modeling robotics West 2021posted by ODSC Community September 8, 2021

Editor’s note: Alishba Imran is a speaker for ODSC West 2021. Be sure to check out her talk, “Machine Learning and Robotics in Healthcare Devices and Rehabilitation,” there! Contact-rich manipulation tasks in unstructured environments are especially complex to train and perform for machines and robots today.... Read more

On Human-like Performance Artificial Intelligence through Causal Learning: A Demonstration Using an Atari Game

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences APAC 2021posted by ODSC Community September 2, 2021

This upcoming ODSC APAC 2021 talk will provide the theoretical background and a practical demonstration of how to implement causal learning or learning of causality. Why is causality important? Prof. Judea Pearl of UCLA, the 2011 Recipient of the Turing Award (the equivalent of the Nobel... Read more

Vision Transformer and its Applications

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Vision Transformerposted by ODSC Community August 31, 2021

Editor’s note: Rowel is a speaker for ODSC APAC 2021. Be sure to check out his talk, “Vision Transformer and its Applications,” there! Since the idea of using Attention in natural language processing (NLP) was introduced in 2017 , transformer-based models have dominated performance leaderboards in... Read more

Machine Learning With Graphs: Going Beyond Tabular Data

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Machine Learning Modeling Graphs Tabular Data West 2021posted by ODSC Community August 31, 2021

Note: The complete code for this post on machine learning with graphs can be found here. Introduction When we think about data science and machine learning, we think about tabular data. We have data organized in rows and columns that could be in the form of... Read more