Video Highlights: Data Theory in the World Seminar: How Data Drives Business Decisions

I was pleased to learn that my alma mater UCLA has taken a very innovative direction by creating a new Data Theory undergraduate major, a collaboration of the Mathematics and Statistics departments. The video presentation below is a recent panel discussion that explains the genesis of the new major “Data Theory in the World Seminar: How Data Drives Business Decisions.”

NVIDIA Networking Solutions – Unlock the full potential of your Data Center

[SPONSORED POST] NVIDIA® is the leader in accelerated networking solutions and a pioneer in new advancements such as the Data Processing Unit (DPU) which is why PNY is proud to become an NVIDIA networking product partner carrying and supporting NVIDIA’s entire Ethernet and InfiniBand end-to-end product suites. In this article, we highlight four PNY videos available on our YouTube channel that showcase the benefits of each NVIDIA networking product category.

Z by HP Releases Short Film Bringing Interactive Storytelling to the Data Science Community

On Friday, February 18th, NBCUniversal and Z by HP will debut the first branded short film to stream on Peacock entitled, Unlocked, an action-packed thriller that takes viewers on an exciting adventure with data science at its core. Inspired by and created for data scientists, viewers will be taken on an interactive journey that unlocks an ancient mystery that can change the world.

Video Highlights: MLDataR – a Data Package for Supervised Machine Learning in R

The video presentation below is courtesy of Gary Hutson, regarding a new R package he launched recently on CRAN to provide example ML data sets for supervised machine learning problems. The data sets have examples in healthcare, but he plans to widen to include other types of data.

Video Highlights: Expert.ai – Executive Interview

In this interview, expert.ai’s CEO Walt Mayo gives an update on the company’s recent FY20 results. He discusses the technology that is being developed as part of the company’s Path to Lead five-year strategy and outlines how the company expects to commercialise it. He discusses the wider natural language understanding/processing (NLU/NLP) market, highlighting recent M&A activity. Finally, he outlines the key milestones the company is targeting over the next 12 months.

Video Highlights: Time Series Analysis with Pandas

The topic “Time Series Analysis with Pandas” was presented by Joshua Malina, former Data Scientist at American Express, held at the 2019 Data Science Salon event in Miami. In his talk, Joshua explains how American Express utilizes Pandas for the analysis and manipulation of big amounts of time series data in an easy, flexible and powerful way.

Video Highlights: ML System Design for Continuous Experimentation

While ML model development is a challenging process, the management of these models becomes even more complex once they’re in production. Shifting data distributions, upstream pipeline failures, and model predictions impacting the very data set they’re trained on can create thorny feedback loops between development and production.

Video Highlights: Andrew Ng on Career Advice / Reading Research Papers

Stanford University, CS230 is a widely revered course to learn the foundations of Deep Learning, understand how to build neural networks, and learn how to lead successful machine learning projects. Students learn about Convolutional networks, RNNs, LSTM, Adam, Dropout, BatchNorm, Xavier/He initialization, and more. In the video lecture below, Andrew Ng Adjunct Professor, Computer Science, presents Lecture 8 which touches on career advice and also tips for reading research papers.

Video Highlights: GTC November 2021 Keynote Highlights with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

In this video presentation, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang covers the highlights of his GTC21​ November keynote that presents the latest breakthroughs in AI​, data science, high performance computing, graphics, edge computing, networking, and autonomous machines.

Video Highlights: Lessons From the Field in Building Your MLOps Strategy

Our friends over a Comet produced the video presentation below, hosted by Harpreet Sahota, to help you learn when & how to deploy MLOps from experts who have done it! In discussions with leading organizations utilizing ML like The RealReal and Uber, Comet compiled real-world case studies and organizational best practices for MLOps in the enterprise.