Good morning, here’s your new dosage of Monday morning thrash! This band, Nervosa runs the thrashing genre into new lines of perfection. Maybe, “porra incrível surra de metal” says it better, but then of course maybe it doesn’t since I’m only but so good with linguistics. This first song, a routine feeling I get, is... Continue reading →

Introducing Siyu Yang > @yangsiyu_ < presenting “Deep Learning for Computer Vision with Applications for Wildlife Conservation”. Siyu is a data scientist at the AI for Earth program at Microsoft focusing on developing machine learning enabled solutions to aid environmental conservation efforts at university labs, startups, non-profits, and government agencies. Before joining this team, she... Continue reading →

UPDATED: Video Added from the Conference! Introducing Amy Hodler > @amyhodler < presenting “Improving ML Predictions with Connected Feature Extraction”. Amy is a network science devotee and AI and Graph Analytics Program Manager at Neo4j. She promotes the use of graph analytics to reveal structures within real-world networks and predict dynamic behavior. Amy helps teams... Continue reading →

UPDATED: Video Added from the Conference! Introducing Melissa Santos > @ansate < presenting “YOU Can Predict the Future?”. Melissa has been working with computers and data since 2000, in fields from security to marketing to geography. She has a PhD. in Applied Math and considers herself both a statistician and a data scientist. Currently she... Continue reading →

UPDATED: Video Added from the Conference! Introducing Damon Danieli > @damondanieli < presenting “Time-Series Behavioral Analysis for Churn Prediction“. Vice President of Engineering for Platform Architecture at DocuSign. I am responsible for the internal advanced analytics data platform as well as applied machine learning for both internal efficiency for sales, marketing and customer success and... Continue reading →