Data Science Modeling Tutorials, Guides, Tips, and Examples

Building a Predictive Analytics Solution with Azure ML – Fidan Boylu & Syed Fahad Allam Shah ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Modeling Predictive Analytics Azure ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 10, 2015

Building a Predictive Analytics Solution with Azure ML from odsc Create and operationalize a predictive model using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning. –Perform the typical steps involved in building a predictive analytics solution such as data ingestion, data cleansing, data exploration, feature engineering, model selection and evaluation... Read more

Beyond Names – Gregor Stewart ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Modeling NLP/Text Analytics ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 9, 2015

Beyond Names from odsc Finding and classifying the mentions of the things named in text, often called Named Entity Recognition or NER, is a fundamental task in many search and analysis applications. Mature, robust NER technology is available for many languages and domains, from people, places,... Read more

Domain Expertise and Unstructured Date – William Macmillan & Evan Schnidman ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Data Wrangling Modeling NLP/Text Analytics ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 5, 2015

Domain Expertise and Unstructured Data from odsc Data science allows us to turn a dark forest into a world of perpetual twilight by giving us the tools to better understand the data that surrounds us. Unfortunately, in this world of twilight we still need a flashlight... Read more

Practical Mergic – Aaron Schumacher ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Data Wrangling Modeling ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 5, 2015

http://bit.ly/PracticalMergic Combining data sets can be a huge pain, with possible problems both obvious and insidious. Aaron will present practical approaches for detecting and avoiding potential pitfalls, as well as rigorous and repeatable processes for generating merge tables through reduction to de-duplication. The focus will be... Read more

How I Fight Slavery – Eric Schles ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Modeling Research ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 5, 2015

http://bit.ly/EricSchlesODSCTalk In this talk I will be covering a set to techniques I’ve used to track and find instances of human trafficking on the internet. I’ll be going over web scraping, entity recognition, some techniques for text comparison, and data storage concerns. The tool that I... Read more

Kaggle The Home of Data Science – Anthony Goldbloom ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Modeling Research ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 4, 2015

Kaggle The Home of Data Science from odsc Keynote Presenter Bio Anthony Goldbloom is the founder and CEO of Kaggle. In 2011 & 2012, Forbes Magazine named Anthony as one of the 30 under 30 in technology, in 2013 the MIT Tech Review named him one... Read more

Intro to Text Mining Using tm, openNLP and topicmodels – Ted Kwartler ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Modeling NLP/Text Analytics R Tools & Languages ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Edward Kwartler June 4, 2015

Intro to Text Mining Using tm, openNLP and topicmodels from odsc You will learn how modern customer service organizations use data to understand important customer attributes and how R is used for workforce optimization. Topics include real world examples of how R is used in large... Read more

Jumping to Conclusions – Richard Robehr Bijjani ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Modeling Research ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 3, 2015

Jumping to Conclusions from odsc Data Science is the study of the extraction of knowledge from data. What if we extract partial or inaccurate knowledge? This illusion of knowledge would lead us to make wrong decisions, with sometimes disastrous consequences such as in the case of... Read more

Machine Learning Based Personalization Using Uplift Analytics: Examples and Applications – Victor Lo ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Modeling Predictive Analytics ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 3, 2015

Uplift Modeling Workshop from odsc Traditional randomized experiments allow us to determine the overall causal impact of a treatment program (e.g. marketing, medical, social, education, political). Uplift modeling (also known as true lift, net lift, incremental lift) takes a further step to identify individuals who are... Read more

Data Science 101 – Todd Cioffi ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Modeling Research ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 3, 2015

Data Science 101 from odsc Curious about Data Science? Self-taught on some aspects, but missing the big picture? Well, you’ve got to start somewhere and this session is the place to do it. This session will cover, at a layman’s level, some of the basic concepts... Read more