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Adapting Machine Learning Algorithms to Novel Use Cases

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Featured Post Algorithms Data Science Machine Learning ODSC Westposted by Kirk Borne August 27, 2019

If there was a metric for success in the data science profession, it would require a multi-dimensional scoring model. This metric would cover a data scientist’s technical skills and talents, analytic literacies and ways of thinking, and soft skills and aptitudes. Soft skills include a collection... Read more

7 Tips for Visual Search at Scale

Data Visualization Modeling Tools & Languages Conferences ODSC West visual searchposted by Pat Lasserre February 6, 2019

Visual search is a rapidly emerging trend that is ideal for retail segments, such as fashion and home design, because they are largely driven by visual content, and style is often difficult to describe using text search alone. It is a topic of interest to data... Read more

Why Consumers Should Trust Companies with Their Data

Business + Management Conferences Healthcare Conferences Healthcare ODSC Westposted by Spencer Norris, ODSC December 13, 2018

Hugo Pinto is an asthmatic. He’s aware of the environmental triggers that can induce an asthma attack, but he wasn’t satisfied with the option that faces most asthmatics: wait until an attack happens, and treat the symptoms once it does. [Related Article: Why The New Era... Read more

Olivier Blais of Moov AI on His Experience as a Speaker at ODSC West 2018

Conferences Conferences ODSC Westposted by Olivier Blais November 29, 2018

I am back from Open Data Science Conference (ODSC West) in California. What a blast! Not only was I able to present my talk on the democratization of AI, but I have learned a lot of very interesting stuff! I honestly am impressed by the projects... Read more

Handling Missing Data in Python/Pandas

Conferences Modeling Python Tools & Languages Conferences ODSC West Pandas Pythonposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC November 21, 2018

Key Takeaways: It’s important to describe missing data and the challenges it poses. You need to clarify a confusing terminology that further adds to the field’s complexity. You should take the time to review methods for handling missing data. You need to learn how to apply... Read more

ODSC West 2018 Review: Have You Been to Machine Learning Mecca?

Conferences ODSC ODSC West odsc west 2018posted by Brandon Dey, ODSC November 9, 2018

With ODSC West 2018 in the history logs, it didn’t disappoint. Conferences can be overblown, and usually in proportion to the number of buzzwords marketed in its runup. ODSC West wasn’t; I went home with a number of practical tricks I will apply to the machine... Read more

Crash Course: Pool-Based Sampling in Active Learning

Modeling active learning Machine Learning ODSC West supervised algorithmsposted by Spencer Norris, ODSC October 30, 2018

Active learning is a class of machine learning problems where labeled data isn’t available for supervised algorithms. Let’s take the classic setup as an example. Say we have pictures of birds and want to classify them by type, but the images don’t have labels for what... Read more

Classic Regularization Techniques in Neural Networks

Modeling classic regularization Machine Learning Neural Networks ODSC West regularizationposted by Spencer Norris, ODSC October 29, 2018

Neural networks are notoriously tricky to optimize. There isn’t a way to compute a global optimum for weight parameters, so we’re left fishing around in the dark for acceptable solutions while trying to ensure we don’t overfit the data. This is a quick overview of the most... Read more

Three Ways Researchers are Using Data Science for Good

Data Science for Good conservation Data Science for Good Machine Learning mobile money ODSC West solar energyposted by Paxtyn Merten October 23, 2018

Data experts have long identified marginalization and narrow-minded problem solving as some of the biggest challenges facing data science. When large technology enterprises only seek solutions to problems they face within their company and their communities, it exacerbates inequalities. But companies, nonprofits, and individuals across the... 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