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New Publications and Upcoming Talks

Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read · algorithms conferences data science machine learning meetup software architecture ·

Just a quick post here to note a few professional accomplishments: I just added a new publication to my vita -- a peer-reviewed conference proceeedings article about abstractions for building repeated, related versions of similar predictive models. Check out some longer thoughts on Medium, or read the full article. …

A few things I learned from two small Data Science conferences

Jul 16, 2017 · 5 min read · data science machine learning conferences ·

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This post was originally published on Medium I recently attended two small conferences — the ISBIS (International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics) 2017 conference, held at IBM Research in Westchester County, and the Domino Data Lab Popup, held in West SoHo. I was invited to speak at ISBIS (slides here, …

Conference Blogging INFORMS Analytics 2017

Apr 9, 2017 · 3 min read · data science conferences analytics operations research ·

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This post was originally published on Medium A particularly good way to get a little more out of professional conferences is to blog about your experiences, I think. It makes you focus your thoughts on things like “what’s the big take-away here,” and “what should I be asking people in the hallways?” Rather than just …

Why a Data Community is Like a Music Scene -- Resources

Oct 26, 2013 · 1 min read · conferences data science ·

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On Monday, October 28th, 2013, I gave a 5-minute Ignite talk entitled “Why a Data Community is Like a Music Scene” at an event associated with the Strata conference. Here’s the video: And here are the acknowledgements and references for the talk: Data Community DC How Music Works, by David Byrne my slides for the …

Communication and the Data Scientist

Oct 23, 2012 · 1 min read · analytics conferences data science survey video ·

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I recently gave a presentation on communication issues around the terms “Data Science” and “Data Scientist”, based in part on a survey that I did with my Meetup colleagues Marck and Sean. The basic idea is that these new, extremely-broad buzzwords have resulted in confusion, which has impacted the ability of people …

integrating R with other systems

Jun 16, 2012 · 1 min read · analytics conferences data science meetup programming R ·

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I just returned from the useR! 2012 conference for developers and users of R. One of the common themes to many of the presentations was integration of R-based statistical systems with other systems, be they other programming languages, web systems, or enterprise data systems. Some highlights for me were an update to …

On "Analytics" and related fields

Apr 15, 2011 · 6 min read · conferences data science job titles operations research statistics ·

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I recently attended the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research, aka “INFORMS Analytics 2011”, conference in Chicago. This deserves a little bit of an explanation. INFORMS is the professional organization for Operations Research (OR) and Management Science (MS), which are terms describing …