Blog | Open Data Science Conference

Accelerate AI

Preparations for a Post-Pandemic Retail Environment

.tatsu-gpmdfmp3617jlm33.tatsu-text-block-wrap .tatsu-text-inner{width: 100%;} Covid-19 has challenged us to redesign multiple aspects of our life and this has inevitably led to wide-ranging impact across business in multiple different sectors. The retail industry has especially been disrupted as people seek convenience from the safety and comforts of their homes. As the volume

odscadmin 03/05/2021

Deep Learning

Brand Voice: Deep Learning for Speech Synthesis

.tatsu-gpmdfmp9y57etqcd.tatsu-text-block-wrap .tatsu-text-inner{width: 100%;} The production of artificial natural-sounding human speech is a fascinating topic due to its complexity and surprising results, with applications that range from chatbots to the automatization of audio content in news media. One obvious example of a Text-to-Speech (TTS) application for news media is a Read

odscadmin 03/05/2021

Data Science

Building a Robust Data Pipeline with the “dAG Stack”: dbt, Airflow, and Great Expectations

.tatsu-gpmdfmpg7d58owxz.tatsu-text-block-wrap .tatsu-text-inner{width: 100%;} Data quality has become a much-discussed topic in the fields of data engineering and data science, and it has become clear that ensuring data quality is absolutely crucial to avoiding a case of “garbage in – garbage out”. Apache Airflow and dbt (data build tool) are some

odscadmin 03/05/2021

Accelerate AI

Building a Holistic Risk Profile: Near Real-Time Approach to Insider Threat Detection

.tatsu-gpmdfmpkorb2fdfa.tatsu-text-block-wrap .tatsu-text-inner{width: 100%;} Each year, organizations and research firms output yearly Cybersecurity Threat and Breach predictions. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a global shift has occurred, forcing organizations to adapt to a “new normal” that includes a more distributed remote workforce. In turn, this has greatly affected data theft. Forrester

odscadmin 03/05/2021

Data Science

Fake News: Where Do We Stand in the Fight Against Disinformation

.tatsu-gpmdfmpp7gdrojtk.tatsu-text-block-wrap .tatsu-text-inner{width: 100%;} If you’re familiar with conspiracy theories regarding COVID-19 vaccines, Barack Obama’s birthplace, or Hillary Clinton’s ties to “Pizzagate”, you’ve experienced only a fraction of contemporary disinformation. With the rise of social media and its capacity for viral posts and fake news, disinformation campaigns have become a common strategy

odscadmin 03/05/2021

Deep Learning

PyTorch Lightning: From Research to Production, Minus the Boilerplate

.tatsu-gpmdfmpx5jf6zpya.tatsu-text-block-wrap .tatsu-text-inner{width: 100%;} The following post introduces PyTorch Lightning, outlines its core design philosophy, and provides inline examples of how this philosophy enables more reproducible and production-capable deep learning code. What is PyTorch Lightning? PyTorch Lighting is a lightweight PyTorch wrapper for high-performance AI research. Simply put, PyTorch Lightning is

odscadmin 03/05/2021

Data Science

AI and the Fight against Fake News & Fake Stats

.tatsu-gpmdfmq326qzjxu.tatsu-text-block-wrap .tatsu-text-inner{width: 100%;} One of the biggest challenges facing society today is the proliferation of fake news and fake stats. It is relatively easy, today, to come up with statistics and charts that can bolster dubious claims. But, it is much more difficult to counter such claims. And it is

odscadmin 03/05/2021

Deep Learning

Dataset Management for Computer Vision

.tatsu-gpmdfmqa0768al9h.tatsu-text-block-wrap .tatsu-text-inner{width: 100%;} When building computer vision solutions, the emphasis is usually on the modeling side and on leveraging the latest algorithm. While the model is important, in my experience I have found that an even more important component to delivering a successful solution is to build and maintain a

odscadmin 03/05/2021

Data Science

Scaling LightGBM with Dask

.tatsu-gpmdfmqi9b68q1rj.tatsu-text-block-wrap .tatsu-text-inner{width: 100%;} LightGBM is an open-source framework for solving supervised learning problems with gradient-boosted decision trees (GBDTs). It ships with built-in support for distributed training, which just means “using multiple machines at the same time to train a model”. Distributed training can allow you to train on larger datasets,

odscadmin 03/05/2021

Data Science

Measure Twice, Model Once

.tatsu-gpmdfmqo0wftwnf3.tatsu-text-block-wrap .tatsu-text-inner{width: 100%;} Supervised machine learning is essentially classification: ball vs strike; dog vs cat vs horse vs cow; etc. For these types of problems, the most fundamental question is always: can I create an accurate and generalized model (classifier) from the data I have collected? Today, the only way

odscadmin 03/05/2021

Data Visualization

Data Visualization for Data Scientists – Choosing the Right Tool for the Job

.tatsu-gpmdfmqsxx1dvxja.tatsu-text-block-wrap .tatsu-text-inner{width: 100%;} Photo for Data Visualization for Data Scientists by David Pisnoy on Unsplash. Data visualization sometimes gets categorized as a field separate from machine learning or data science. Skill in designing effective, attractive plots and graphs doesn’t show up in job descriptions in the same way as experience

odscadmin 03/05/2021

Machine Learning

Insights Discovery in Data Science Through Novel Machine Learning Approaches

.tatsu-gpmdfmqxjy5l0mg5.tatsu-text-block-wrap .tatsu-text-inner{width: 100%;} I have always appreciated the unusual, unexpected, and surprising in science and in data. As famous science author Arthur C. Clarke once said, “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it) but ‘That’s funny!’” This is the

odscadmin 03/05/2021

Data Science

Top ODSC Europe 2020 Sessions Available for Free On-Demand

We’ve just wrapped up our ODSC Europe, four days of hands-on training sessions, workshops, and talks on the topics and tools driving the future of data science and AI led by renowned experts. If you weren’t able to join us, don’t worry, you can still have a chance to experience

odscadmin 10/09/2020

Data Science

Announcing ODSC APAC Dec 8-9

ODSC is very excited to announce that we will be hosting our first Asia and Pacific virtual conference, ODSC APAC: Rethink AI on December 8-9, 2020. For two days, we will explore the ways that we are reshaping industries, such as Manufacturing, Telecom, Logistics, Finance, Pharma/Biotech, and Oil & Gas through innovations

odscadmin 10/09/2020

Data Science

Announcing the ODSC Ai x West Business and Innovation Summit This Oct 29-30

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen rapid advancement and increasing importance in many of our key industries over the last several years. As such, to excel in your profession, and for your company to excel in its market, it’s essential to understand how AI has and will transform your industry. At

odscadmin 10/09/2020

Statistics

The Bayesians are Coming! The Bayesians are Coming, to Time Series

Editor’s note: Aric is a speaker for ODSC West 2020 this October. Check out his talk, “The Bayesians are Coming! The Bayesians are Coming, to Time Series,” there! Forecasting has applications across all industries. From needing to predict future values of sales for a product line, energy usage for a power company,

odscadmin 10/09/2020

Deep Learning, NLP

Deep Learning-Driven Text Summarization & Explainability with Reuters News Data

Image credit: REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler for Reuters news data Editor’s note: At ODSC West 2020, Nadja Herger, Nina Hristozova, and Viktoriia Samatova will hold a workshop focused on text summarization and that will allow you to automatically generate news headlines powered by Reuters News, and learn about the power of transfer learning and explainable AI.

odscadmin 10/09/2020

Machine Learning

Optimizing ML Serving with Asynchronous Architectures

When AI architects think about ML Serving, they focus primarily on speeding up the inference function in the Serving layer. Worried about performance, they optimize towards overcapacity, leading to an expense end-to-end solution. When the solution is deployed, the cost of serving alarms those responsible for budgets, leading to abandoning

odscadmin 10/09/2020

Preparations for a Post-Pandemic Retail Environment

Brand Voice: Deep Learning for Speech Synthesis

Building a Robust Data Pipeline with the “dAG Stack”: dbt, Airflow, and Great Expectations

Building a Holistic Risk Profile: Near Real-Time Approach to Insider Threat Detection

Fake News: Where Do We Stand in the Fight Against Disinformation

PyTorch Lightning: From Research to Production, Minus the Boilerplate

AI and the Fight against Fake News & Fake Stats

Dataset Management for Computer Vision

Scaling LightGBM with Dask

Measure Twice, Model Once

Data Visualization for Data Scientists – Choosing the Right Tool for the Job

Insights Discovery in Data Science Through Novel Machine Learning Approaches

Top ODSC Europe 2020 Sessions Available for Free On-Demand

Announcing ODSC APAC Dec 8-9

Announcing the ODSC Ai x West Business and Innovation Summit This Oct 29-30

The Bayesians are Coming! The Bayesians are Coming, to Time Series

Deep Learning-Driven Text Summarization & Explainability with Reuters News Data

Optimizing ML Serving with Asynchronous Architectures

Categories

Recent Posts