ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slides Archives

ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slides

In Defense of Imprecision: Why Traditional Approaches to Data Visualization are Changing – ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Data Visualization Modeling ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science December 12, 2014

In Defense of Imprecision: Why Traditional Approaches to Data Visualization are Changing from freshdatabos In the worlds of research, science, and academia, much attention is given to precision, objectivity, and de-biasing data. The ability to “lie with data” is a legitimate concern. In business analytics, and... Read more

Visualizing Networks – Lynn Cherny ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Data Visualization Modeling ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science December 10, 2014

Visualizing Networks from freshdatabos Network data is increasingly pervasive, but can be hard to work with. The naive first pass at a network diagram usually looks like a “hairball.” If you add some simple network measures like degree, betweenness, centrality, and community membership, you’ll be able... Read more

You Have The Data, Now What – Chris Lynch ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Data Wrangling Modeling ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science December 10, 2014

You Have the Data, Now What? (Chris Lynch) – 2014 Boston Data Festival – from freshdatabos Read more

Vector Space Word Representations – Rani Nelken ODSC Boston 2015

Conferences Modeling NLP/Text Analytics ODSC East 2015|Speaker Slidesposted by Open Data Science December 10, 2014

Vector Space Word Representations – Rani Nelken PhD from freshdatabos NLP has traditionally mapped words to discrete elements without underlying structure. Recent research replaces these models with vector-based representations, efficiently learned using neural networks. The resulting embeddings not only improve performance on a variety of tasks,... Read more