Mês: Outubro 2015
Computational Art to introduce computing doe CS0 and Outreach
After Attending an AI session at the Grace Hopper Conference I participated in a GFX session/workshop. The first task for the participants of the workshop was to be creative! Draw yourself as the master of code in 30 seconds. This … Continue reading →
Follow, #hashtag and @mention: Mining Social Media for Disaster Response (Danelle Shah
Number of mobile devices has exceeded human population and this only continues to increase New apps and platforms Advances in data science The challenges faced in using data for disaster recovery Problems of big data – Volume velocity variety veracity value Requires processing and sense making of the data Presence of policies in social networking […]
Virality At BuzzFeed (Anita Mehrotra)
Overall thoughts: Anita captured succinctly the area of social network data, how graph data is complex and what goes into analyzing sharing and why do we even care about sharing trends. Some quick points from her presentation Susceptible infected recovery model is used to figure out how the sharing of black and blue dress blew […]
A Glimpse of the Future: Emerging Technologies at GHC15
GHC15: Attacks Presentations
GHC15: It’s Not Just the Pipeline: Why Fixing the Culture is Essential
Using Data Science to Increase Diversity in the Tech Workforce (Genetha A. Gray)
Intel hired a data scientist who is working on the hiring process. She has looked into the retention, new hires and diversity and developed a prediction model that given current representation, how many to hire, promote to reach the target goal. She wants to borrow ideas from economic forecasting and computational biology to build comprehensive […]
Building Cross-Functional Teams to Create Innovative Data Products (Anu Tewary)
Overall thoughts on the presentation: Anu’s presentation is relevant to all teams working in data space and building products with a data driven focus. I looked her idea of having candidates interviewed by members from diverse backgrounds and cross roles. Her idea of pods is also interesting and coupled with cross pollination, it paves the […]
Using Artificial Intelligence to Solve Complex Problems
Managing fraud, recognizing speech, and creating more autonomous robots are just three areas that use artificial intelligence to come to grips with complexity. In this panel, industry and academic experts Tara Sainath, Lydia Kavraki, and Jin Zhang discussed how they … Continue reading →