If you’re attending, or if you’re at the office or at home, you can check out the talks as they go live on the ML4ALL Youtube Channel! Right now during the conference we also have the live feed on the channel, so if you’re feeling a little FOMO this might help a little. Enjoy!
Here are a few gems that are live already!
The real breakthrough for the modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technology explosions started back in 1943 when researchers McCulloch & Pitts came up with a mathematical model to represent that function of the biological neuron; nature’s gift that allows all life to operate and learn over time. Eventually this research would then give birth to the Artificial Neural Network (ANN).
Ashutosh Sanzgiri (@sanzgiri) is a Data Scientist at AppNexus, the world’s largest independent Online Advertising (Ad Tech) company. I develop algorithms for machine learning products and services that help digital publishers optimize the monetization of their inventory on the AppNexus platform.
Ashutosh has a diverse educational and career background. He’s attained a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, a Ph.D. in Particle Physics from Texas A&M University and he’s conducted Post-Doctoral research in Nuclear Physics at Yale University. In addition to these achievements Ashutosh also has a certificate in Computational Finance and an MBA from the Oregon Health & Sciences University.
Prior to joining AppNexus, Ashutosh has held positions in Embedded Software Development, Agile Project Management, Program Management and Technical Leadership at Tektronix, Xerox, Grass Valley and Nike.
Scaling Machine Learning (ML) at your organization means increasing ML knowledge beyond the Data Science (DS) department. Several companies have Data / ML literacy strategies in place, usually through an internal data science university or a formal training program. At AppNexus, we’ve been experimenting with different ways to expand the use of ML in our products and services and share responsibility for its evaluation. An internal contest adds a competitive element, and makes the learning process more fun. It can engage people to work on a problem that’s important to the company instead of working on generic examples (e.g. “cat vs dog” classification), and gives contestants familiarity with the tools used by the DS team.
In this talk, Ashutosh will present the experience of conducting a “Kaggle-style” internal DS contest at AppNexus. he’ll discuss our motivations for doing it and how we went about it. Then he’ll share the tools we developed to host the contest. The hope being you too will find inspiration to try something in your organization!
BigML was founded in January 2011 in Corvallis, Oregon with the mission of making Machine Learning beautifully simple for everyone. We pioneered Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS), creating our platform that effectively lowers the barriers of entry to help organizations of all industries and sizes to adopt Machine Learning.
As a local company with a mission in complete alignment with that of the conference, BigML would be delighted to partake in this first edition of ML4ALL.
“So you’ve heard of Machine Learning and are eager to make data driven decisions, but don’t know where to start? The first step is not to read all the latest and greatest research in artificial intelligence, but rather to focus on the data you have and the decisions you want to make. Fortunately, this is easier than ever because platforms like BigML have commoditized Machine Learning, providing a consistent abstraction making it simple to solve use cases across industries, no Ph.D.s required.
As a practical, jump-start into Machine Learning, Poul Petersen, CIO of BigML, will demonstrate how to build a housing recommender system. In just 30 minutes, he will cover a blend of foundational Machine Learning techniques like classification, anomaly detection, clustering, association discovery and topic modeling to create an end-to-end predictive application. More importantly, using the availability of an API will make it easy to put this model into production, on stage, complete with a voice interface and a GUI. Learn Machine Learning and find a great home – all without paying expensive experts!”
Poul Petersen (@pejpgrep) is the Chief Infrastructure Officer at BigML. An Oregon native, he has an MS degree in Mathematics as well as BS degrees in Mathematics, Physics and Engineering Physics from Oregon State University. With 20 plus years of experience building scalable and fault-tolerant systems in data centers, Poul currently enjoys the benefits of programmatic infrastructure, hacking in python to run BigML with only a laptop and a cloud.
Anna Widiger (@widiger_anna) has a B.A. degree in Computational Linguistics from University of Tübingen. She’s been doing NLP since her very first programming assignment, specializing in Russian morphology, German syntax, cross-lingual named entity recognition, topic modeling, and grammatical error detection.
Anna describes “Your First NLP Machine Learning Project: Perks and Pitfalls of Unstructured Data” to us. Faced with words instead of numbers, many data scientists prefer to feed words straight from csv files into lists without filtering or transformation, but there is a better way! Text normalization improves the quality of your data for future analysis and increases the accuracy of your machine learning model.
Which text preprocessing steps are necessary and which ones are “nice-to-have” depends on the source of your data and the information you want to extract from it. It’s important to know what goes into the bag of words and what metrics are useful to compare word frequencies in documents. In this hands-on talk, I will show some do’s and don’ts for processing tweets, Yelp reviews, and multilingual news articles using spaCy.
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