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

ODSC East DeepOps: Building an AI First Company

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Deep Learning Guest contributor Modeling Deep Learningposted by Yuval Greenfield April 23, 2019

I’ve spoken to over a hundred AI companies as part of my job at MissingLink.ai and the result of analyzing their experiment, data and compute workflows. Certain challenges were a common theme across many teams – the solutions to these is a concept we call “DeepOps”,... Read more

Searching for a Data Colander for Automatic Data Cleaning

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Data Cleaning ODSC Speakerposted by ODSC Team April 17, 2019

Editor’s note: The following is an article written by Devavrat Shah of MIT and Christina Lee Yu of Cornell University. Be sure to check out their presentation at ODSC East 2019, “Predictions in Excel through Estimating Missing Values”.” The stated mission of Data Science or Data-Driven... Read more

Data Science + Design Thinking: a Perfect Blend to Achieve the Best User Experience

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Tools & Languages Workflow Design Thinking ODSC Speakerposted by Michael Radwin April 15, 2019

It’s one thing to rely on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data to make your product smarter. And, quite another to build a product that’s so intuitive and easy-to-use that your customer falls in love with it. That’s the beauty of data science +... Read more

How LinkedIn Navigates Streams Infrastructure Using Cruise Control

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Modeling Kafka ODSC Speakerposted by Adem Efe Gencer April 12, 2019

The past decade has witnessed a growing adoption of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) in various industries. This trend helped companies optimize their custom workflows in a cost-efficient manner, avoid the missed deadlines, and enhance the quality of life of its consumers. Naturally, these benefits have... Read more

Using NLP and ML to Analyze Legislative Burdens Upon Businesses

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Featured Post Machine Learning NLP/Text Analytics East 2019 Machine Learning NLPposted by Serena Peruzzo April 11, 2019

The process of legal reasoning and decision making is heavily reliant on information stored in text. Tasks like due diligence, contract review, and legal discovery, that are traditionally time-consuming, can be automated, saving a huge amount of time. This makes the development of approaches that leverage... Read more

Watch: Applied Finance – The Third Culture

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Business + Management Accelerate AI Financeposted by ODSC Team April 9, 2019

What can financial analysts learn from computer scientists about data science? And can computer scientists change their approach to appeal to finance professionals? Data scientists typically argue about the relative merits of the statistical and algorithmic approaches to data mining (Leo Breiman – The Two Cultures).... Read more

Good, Fast, Cheap: How to do Data Science with Missing Data

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Featured Post Guest contributor Modeling Missing Data ODSC Speaker Open Dataposted by Matt Brems April 5, 2019

When doing any sort of data science problem, we will inevitably run into missing data. Let’s say we’re interviewing 100 people and are recording their answers on a piece of paper in front of us. Specifically, one of our questions asks about income. Consider a few... Read more

Unleashing the Power of AI Machine Learning to Improve the Hiring Process

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Business + Management Guest contributor Accelerate AI Hiringposted by Dastgeer Shaikh April 4, 2019

Undoubtedly, the power of machine and algorithmic driven intelligence empowered by exponentially growing data – collectively referred to as artificial intelligence (AI), riding on the cusp of cloud-based computing, has tremendously revolutionized our visions and perception beyond any bounds. Cumulatively, rapid scaling of digital technologies is... Read more

Stream Data Processing with Apache Kafka and TensorFlow

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Deep Learning Featured Post Modeling Deep Learning Kafka TensorFlowposted by Yong Tang March 18, 2019

Editor’s note: Yong is a speaker for the upcoming ODSC East 2019 this April 30 – May 3! Be sure to check out his talk, “Deep Learning for Real Time Streaming Data with Kafka and TensorFlow.” As one of the most popular deep learning frameworks, TensorFlow... Read more

The Promise of Retrofitting: Building Better Models for Natural Language Processing

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Featured Post Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Machine Learning NLPposted by Catherine Havasi March 15, 2019

Editor’s note: Catherine is a speaker for the upcoming ODSC East 2019 this April 30-May 3! Be sure to check out her talk, “Adding Context and Cognition to Modern NLP Techniques.” OpenAI’s Andrej Karpathy famously said, “I don’t have to actually experience crashing my car into... Read more