Lightning Talks

Banjo Obayomi, Ardo Illaste, Jason Lee, Ryan Soklaski, Tomás Capretto, Usman Kamran, Xiuwen Tu, Zachary Blackwood

Prior knowledge:
No previous knowledge expected

Summary

Lightning Talks are short 5-10 minute sessions presented by community members on a variety of interesting topics.

Description

Order of Presentations

  1. Banjo Obayomi - Building an Open Source Topic Modeling Library
  2. Tomas Capretto - Bambi: A new library for Bayesian modeling in Python.
  3. Zachary Blackwood - Automatic Pattern-Based Data Catalogs
  4. Ryan Soklaski - MyGrad: Drop-in automatic differentiation for NumPy
  5. Xiuwen Tu - Best approximation of pi - an investigation with Python
  6. Usman Kamran - The Need for Modular Data Science Solutions
  7. Ardo Illaste - It's not just about survival: using survival analysis to study customer behaviour
  8. Jason Lee - Improving Topic Model Interpretability Through Aggregation