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Data Science Platforms & Demo Talks Coming to the ODSC East 2021 Virtual AI Expo
Building your own AI and data science platforms, services, and solutions requires a significant investment of time, budget, and manpower. As a result, it doesn’t always make sense to devote your organization’s resources to doing so. Alternatively, there are many innovative companies developing groundbreaking solutions that... Read more
The Importance of Industry 4.0 and AI Adoption in a Changing Industry
I don’t need to tell you how much the world has changed over the last year – a (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime pandemic took over our lives and caused massive disruption around the world. The way we live, work, and interact with each other was completely flipped on... Read more
Why Causal Machine Learning is the Next Revolution in AI
Editor’s note: Robert Ness is a speaker for ODSC East 2021. Check out his talk, “Causal Machine Learning Blitz,” there! Causal modeling and inference are perhaps at the core of the most interesting questions in data science. A common task for a data scientist at a... Read more
Attend the Ai+ Data Science Virtual Career Lab & Expo this April 1st
In an effort to continuously improve as a data scientist and to achieve your professional and personal goals, it’s important to always be looking for new learning opportunities. This is particularly true when you are looking for your next, or first, job. At the Ai+ Virtual... Read more
Black Box Optimization Using Latent Action Monte Carlo Tree Search (LaMCTS)
Black box optimization has numerous applications in industries. From a/b testing to experimental designs of new ads or UI, hyper-parameter tuning in the machine learning models, or to find the optimal configuration of a system, black-box optimization tries to optimize your decision solely by exploring the... Read more
Build NLP and Conversational AI Apps with Transformers and Large Scale Pre-Trained Language Models
Transformers have taken the AI research and product community by storm. We have seen them advancing multiple fields in AI such as natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, and robotics. In this blog, I will share some background in conversational AI, NLP, and transformers-based large-scale language... Read more
How to Attend ODSC East 2021 for Free
In the nature of open-source data science, we want to make our conferences accessible to those who may not have a chance to attend. For the ODSC East 2021 Virtual Conference this March 30th to April 1st, we have a few ways that you can attend... Read more
Preparations for a Post-Pandemic Retail Environment
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
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
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