West 2019 Archives

West 2019

ODSC West 2019 Preview: Python for Data Acquisition

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Python Tools & Languages data acquisition python for data acquisition West 2019posted by Phil Tracton September 6, 2019

Editor’s Note: See Phil present his talk “Python for Data Acquisition” at ODSC West 2019. What does it take, on the technical side, to get a project started? After you have an idea and find something you want to study or look into, you need to... Read more

Interpretability and the Rise of Shapley Values

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Featured Post black box West 2019posted by Rajiv Shah August 30, 2019

Interpretability is a hot topic in data science this year. Earlier this spring, I presented at ODSC East on the need for data scientists to use best practices like permutation-based importance, partial dependence, and explanations. When I first put together this talk, a lot of it... Read more

Community-Specific AI: Building Solutions for Any Audience

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Featured Post West 2019posted by Jonathan Purnell August 29, 2019

This post discusses building solutions for community-specific AI. With half of the world population online, and spending over 5 hours a day there, online communities are flourishing. It is now easier than ever for niche communities to form: gamers can find other players and form teams,... Read more

Optuna: An Automatic Hyperparameter Optimization Framework

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Machine Learning Modeling Tools & Languages hyperparameter Machine Learning optuna West 2019posted by Takuya Akiba-san August 22, 2019

Note: Please go here to see a high-resolution version of the title image) Preferred Networks has released a beta version of an open-source, automatic hyperparameter optimization framework called Optuna. In this blog, we will introduce the motivation behind the development of Optuna as well as its... Read more

What Are a Few AI Research Labs on the West Coast?

Conferences Data Science Academic Research Featured Post Opinion Research Research West 2019posted by Alex Landa, ODSC August 13, 2019

Artificial Intelligence is still a nascent technology; much of the groundbreaking work moving the industry forward is done inside AI research labs. It’s often from those labs that open source projects are started. Institutes like Open AI, NASA’s JPL, Google Deepmind, MIT CSAIL, BAIR, The Turing... Read more

Smart Image Analysis for Omnichannel Retail Applications

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Business + Management Conferences Deep Learning Machine Learning Modeling Computer Vision e-commerce image analysis West 2019posted by Abon Chaudhuri August 7, 2019

Editor’s note: Abon is a speaker for ODSC West this Fall! Consider attending his talk, “Computer Vision for E-Commerce: Intelligent Analysis and Selection of Product Images at Scale” then. In retail, the role of product images is critical in delivering satisfactory customer experience. Images help online... Read more

Recognize Class Imbalance with Baselines and Better Metrics

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Machine Learning Modeling Class imbalance West 2019posted by Samuel Taylor August 6, 2019

Editor’s Note: Samuel is speaking at ODSC West 2019, see his talk “Help! My Classes are Imbalanced” there. In my first machine learning course as an undergrad, I built a recommender system. Using a dataset from a social music website, I created a model to predict... Read more

Causal Inference: An Indispensable Set of Techniques for Your Data Science Toolkit

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Featured Post Modeling casual inference stats West 2019posted by Vinod Bakthavachalam July 29, 2019

Editor’s Note: Want to learn more about key causal inference techniques, including those at the intersection of machine learning and causal inference? Attend ODSC West 2019 and join Vinod’s talk, “An Introduction to Causal Inference in Data Science.” Data scientists often get asked questions of the... Read more

Bears Need to Learn as well – Practical Reinforcement Learning with TensorFlow 2.0 & TF-Agents

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Modeling ODSC Speaker Reinforcement Learning TensorFlow West 2019posted by Oliver Zeigermann July 25, 2019

Editor’s Note: Oliver is speaking at ODSC West 2019, see his talk “Reinforcement Learning with TF Agents & TensorFlow 2.0: Hands On” there. Have a look at our friend Orso the bear. Orso lives in his cave and knows his area and where he can typically... Read more

Are Successful Data Scientists Hired or Trained?

Business + Management Featured Post Guest contributor West 2019posted by Jennifer Redmon July 17, 2019

Editor’s note: Jennifer is a speaker for ODSC West 2019 this November in San Francisco! Be sure to check out her talk, “Successful Enterprise Analytics Starts with Literacy” at this upcoming event! This talk asks: are successful data scientists hired or trained? The data science valley... Read more