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ODSC Europe 2019 Preview: Tutorial on Automated Machine Learning

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Machine Learning Modeling automated machine learning AutoML ODSC London West 2019posted by Joaquin Vanschoren September 30, 2019

This article is co-written by Joaquin Vanschoren and Pieter Gijsbers. Today’s society increasingly relies on machine learning models for complex tasks such as decision making and personalized medicine. Constructing a good machine learning model is complicated and time-intensive. Relevant data has to be collected and cleaned,... Read more

The Latest Advances in Classification With Too Many Labels

Modeling Classification Conferences labeling ODSC Londonposted by Spencer Norris, ODSC January 9, 2019

At ODSC London 2018, Dr. Michael Swarbrick Jones, Ph.D. gave a technical lecture on the latest in large-scale multilabel classification and how practitioners should be managing their hyperparameters and data to get the most out of their models, focusing specifically on problems where there are thousands... Read more

How to Fix Data Leakage – Your Model’s Greatest Enemy

Modeling Conferences data leakage Machine Learning ODSC Londonposted by Spencer Norris, ODSC January 7, 2019

At ODSC London 2018, Yuriy Guts of DataRobot gave a talk on data leakage, including potential sources of the problem and how it can be remedied. Data leakage – also sometimes referred to as data snooping – is a phenomenon in machine learning that occurs when... Read more

Going to the Bank: Using Deep Learning For Banking and the Financial Industry

Deep Learning Banking Conferences Deep Learning ODSC Londonposted by Spencer Norris, ODSC January 3, 2019

At ODSC London 2018, Pavel Shkadzko explained to the audience how Gini GmbH, where he works as a semantics engineer, uses deep learning to automate information extraction from financial documents, such as invoices. By applying deep learning to tasks historically handled by optical character recognition and... Read more

Digital Transformation and Agile Decision-Making in Commerce

Business + Management Agile Conferences ODSC London XAIposted by Spencer Norris, ODSC December 31, 2018

Dr. Kanishka Bhattacharya spoke at ODSC London 2018 on how data science is changing commerce and enabling large companies to become more “agile” in their decision process. Dr. Bhattacharya, who works as a senior director at Publicis.Sapient, explained that large corporations with ‘traditional’ business models are... Read more

9 Reasons Why You Should Go To a Career Fair

Business + Management Career Insights Conferences Career Fair Jobs ODSC London ODSC Westposted by Alex Landa, ODSC September 10, 2018

Tech companies have been known to ask… interesting…questions during interviews, such as the famous “How many golf balls can you fit in a school bus?” (It’s 660,000, apparently.) Whether it’s at Google, Facebook, Apple, or another company hiring for a data science position, you can bet that the... Read more