Dr. Rebecca Bilbro is lead data scientist at Bytecubed, a small tech company in Washington, DC, where she and her team use supervised and unsupervised machine learning, programming in Python and R, and distributed computing with Spark and Hadoop. In her free time, Rebecca works with the open source collaborative District Data Labs (check out the Yellowbrick Project), writes for the DDL blog, practices ukulele, and rides her bicycle around DC. Rebecca earned her doctorate from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, conducting research on communication practices in Engineering, and holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and English from Skidmore College.
Saturday 11:45–12:30 in LG7