PyData Miami is a data science conference happening
January 9th-11th, 2019. The PyData conference series is organized by
NumFOCUS, with regional events happening across dozens of cities internationally. The conference is anchored in Python data packages such as
NumPy,
Pandas, and
scikit-learn but also includes approaches to data analysis and visualization in other high level numerical languages such as
R and
Julia.
We aim to be an accessible, community-driven event, with tutorials and talks for students, practitioners, and researchers.
Keynote Speakers
- Wes McKinney:
Creator of Pandas, Ibis, author of Python for Data Analysis, co-founder and former CEO of DataPad, current Director of Ursa Labs, and member of the project management committee for Apache Arrow.
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Clément Farabet:
VP of AI Infrastructure at NVIDIA, former lead of the Cortex Core team at Twitter, co-founder of Madbits. Clément received his Ph.D. from NYU, as part of Yann Lecun's research lab.
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Chao Han: VP, head of R&D at Lucidworks. Ph.D. in Statistics from Virginia Tech. Worked at JPMorgan Chase R&D on transaction text mining, social media sentiment analysis, fraud detection, default prediction and target marketing. Joined SAS in 2015 to develop an in-memory multi-threaded analytic engine. Chao is now the head of data science at Lucidworks, working on recommendation, query analytics, automatic document clustering, and NLP.
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Alberto Cairo: Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami, where he teaches courses on infographics, data visualization, and data journalism. Alberto holds a Ph.D. from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He is the author of The Functional Art and The Truthful Art.
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Alex Hanna: Computational social scientist working on machine learning curriculum at Google Cloud. Before joining Google, she was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto. Alex received her PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Conference Activities
Join us after the final talks and tutorials on Wednesday and Thursday for additional activities.
Wednesday, 6:00-9:00 - Social Event - 6th Floor, CIC Miami - Hosted by NVIDIA.
Meet the experts. Join the RAPIDS team from NVIDIA for a meetup and happy hour. Learn about updates on the RAPIDS OSS project, and share your data science experiences. Be part of conversations on GPU-accelerated algorithms, scalable deployment, and more. Conveniently hosted in the CIC. Appetizers and drinks will be provided.
Register your attendance.
Thursday, 3:30-5:30 - PyData Meetup at Venture Cafe: NVIDIA RAPIDS.
Hosted at CIC Miami - OPEN TO ALL - This is a satellite event of the PyData conference at VentureCafe (
http://venturecafemiami.org). Click
here for more information.
Organizers
Have questions? Interested in sponsoring? Email us at [email protected].