ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slides Archives

ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slides

Understanding the Chief Data Officer – Julie Steele ODSC Boston 2015

Career Insights Conferences ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 22, 2015

Understanding the Chief Data Officer from odsc As the importance of having a data strategy in place is sinking in, many organizations have added a chief data officer (CDO) to their executive team to help create and implement that strategy. But every organization is doing this... Read more

Machine-in-the-loop for Knowledge Discovery – Max Kleiman-Weiner ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Predictive Analytics ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 19, 2015

Machine-In-The-Loop for Knowledge Discovery from odsc I’ll present the new knowledge discovery tools we are building at Diffeo. Unlike traditional search engines that use keywords, Diffeo provides an in-browser knowledge base that accelerates information gathering about people, companies, chemical compounds, cyber events, or other real world... Read more

Will Data Scientists Face Extinction – Alex Cosmas ODSC Boston 2015

Career Insights Conferences ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 15, 2015

http://bit.ly/AlexCosmasPresentation Presenter Bio Alex Cosmas is a Chief Scientist in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Strategic Innovation Group, specializing in predictive analytics across the travel, hospitality and consumer sectors. He is a recognized expert in the use of probabilistic and causal models to perform both deductive and inductive... Read more

Mobile Technology Usage by Humanitarian Programs: A Metadata Analysis – Rashmi Dayalu ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Modeling Research ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 15, 2015

Mobile technology Usage by Humanitarian Programs: A Metadata Analysis from odsc CommCare, developed by Dimagi Inc., is an open-source mobile technology platform that supports hundreds of humanitarian frontline programs worldwide.The objective of this analysis is to demonstrate how CommCare metadata contains a wealth of information that... Read more

Using Python with Apache Storm and Kafka – Keith Bourgoin ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Python Tools & Languages ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 15, 2015

http://bit.ly/KeithBourgoinPresentation As Python gains more and more traction in data science, the ability to interact with large scale data processing systems has greatly improved. Instead of being limited to what can fit on one’s laptop or having to wait for a Hadoop job to complete, we... Read more

API Driven Development: How I Build Things and Why – Kenneth Reitz ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Tools Tools & Languages ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 15, 2015

API Driven Development from odsc An exposé on human-centered design, as related to data science and “medium data”. Examples of great API design will be showcased, as well as other end-user facing tools that can enable data scientists to share their observations with the world. Presenter... Read more

Using Spark, Python, and Parquet for Loading Large Datasets – Douglas Eisenstein ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Python Tools Tools & Languages ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 15, 2015

Spark, Python and Parquet from odsc Have you been in the situation where you’re about to start a new project and ask yourself, what’s the right tool for the job here? I’ve been in that situation many times and thought it might be useful to share... Read more

Data Science at Dow Jones: Monetizing Data, News and Information – Juan Huerta ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Modeling Predictive Analytics Tools Tools & Languages ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 15, 2015

Data Science at Dow Jones: Monetizing Data, News and Information from odsc In this presentation I will describe the way Data Science supports the business of information and news at Dow Jones. Specifically, I will describe how we are introducing innovative and advanced large-scale information mining... Read more

Think Breadth, Not Depth – Seong Lee ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Data Wrangling Modeling ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 15, 2015

Think Breadth, Not Depth from odsc We’ve all been told to “work smarter, not harder.” But what does working smarter really mean? In the world of finance and trading, working smarter means working differently. None of us can compete against computers stacked inches away from the... Read more

Agile Data – Chris Bergh ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Tools & Languages Workflow ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science June 15, 2015

Agile Data from odsc To rephrase an old saying: ‘It takes a village to raise an Analyst.’ Data Analysts and Scientists are working in teams delivering insight and analysis on an ongoing basis. So how do you get the team to support experimentation and insight delivery... Read more