Blogs from ODSC Speakers Archives

Blogs from ODSC Speakers

What is MLops and Why Do You Need it?

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Machine Learning Modeling East 2022 MLOpsposted by ODSC Community January 13, 2022

Editor’s note: Yinxi is a speaker for ODSC East 2022. Be sure to check out her talk alongside Sean Owen, “MLOps: Relieving Technical Debt in ML with MLflow, Delta and Databricks,” to learn more about MLOps! The past decade has seen huge adoption of Machine Learning... Read more

Your Organization Maintains a Data Catalog, Right?

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Business + Management Featured Postposted by ODSC Community December 10, 2021

Editor’s note: Jonathan will be presenting on our Ai+ Training platform in January. Be sure to check out the session, “Data Governance Essentials,” on January 26th. Organizations of all types are creating, storing, and managing increasing volumes of data. If data is to be well-governed, managed, and more easily... Read more

Which is the Best Neighborhood For Opening a Thai Restaurant in Singapore- A Business Use Study

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Text Analysis Web Scrapingposted by ODSC Community November 23, 2021

Editor’s note: Minerva will be speaking on the Ai+ Training platform on December 14th. Be sure to check out the session, “Web Scraping & Social Media Mining for Text Analysis & NLP” for 10% off now. The city-state of Singapore is a vibrant and culturally diverse... Read more

Top 5 Reasons to Use Seaborn for Data Visualizations

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Data Visualization Modeling seabornposted by ODSC Community November 17, 2021

Editor’s note: Ted Petrou will be giving a presentation on Ai+ Training on Seaborn this December 1st and 8th. Be sure to check his sessions, “Data Visualization with Seaborn,” then! The Seaborn data visualization library in Python provides a simple and intuitive interface for making beautiful plots directly from... Read more

What is Protective DNS?

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Modeling cybersecurityposted by ODSC Community November 15, 2021

Protective DNS (often referred to as PDNS) is an umbrella term for security solutions that examine DNS queries and implement safeguards to prevent systems and people from accessing internet resources that contain malicious (e.g. C2 botnets, malware, ransomware, phishing), or other undesirable content. Why now? The... Read more

How to Make Your Jupyter Notebook Standalone and Allow Others to Replicate Your Experiments

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Modeling jupyter West 2021posted by ODSC Community November 8, 2021

Editor’s note: Francesco is a speaker for ODSC West 2021. Be sure to check out his talk, “Reproducibility and Dependencies for Jupyter Notebooks,” there! Even though many developers (including data scientists) focus on their core problems when working on their experiments, one basic aspect can make... Read more

Graph Representation Learning: From Simple to Higher-order Structures

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Machine Learning Modeling Graph Representation Learning West 2021posted by ODSC Community November 1, 2021

Editor’s note: Mayank is a speaker for ODSC West 2021. Be sure to check out his talk, “Graph Representation Learning: From Simple to Higher-Order Structures,” there! Graphs and networks have become ubiquitous for describing “complex systems,” where it is not enough to just represent the elements... Read more

Teaching and Refining NLP Models with Human Explanations

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Modeling NLP/Text Analytics West 2021posted by ODSC Community October 22, 2021

Editor’s note: Xiang Ren, PhD is a speaker for ODSC West 2021. Be sure to check out his talk, “Teaching Machines through Human Explanations,” there! Neural models achieve strong performance in a wide range of NLP tasks, such as text classification, reading comprehension, summarization, etc., at the... Read more

Creating Word Clouds from Text

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Data Visualization Modeling NLP/Text Analytics West 2021 Word Cloudsposted by ODSC Community October 22, 2021

Word clouds are a useful visualization tool. They show the most frequent words in a text, where the relative size of the word correlates with frequency. This is an example word cloud: Word clouds are useful for at least two purposes: An initial exploration of text... Read more

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