Eli Bressert DEA @ Netflix
Data Sciencein the Rough
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universal law: EDA
Anscombe's quartet
select country, count(*) as frequencyfrom some_tablegroup by countryorder by count(*) desc
country | frequency-------------------NL 3US 2NZ 2MX 1
universal tool: ???????
universal tool: division- Monica Rogati
universereal world
1.3 billion light years away
in a far away galaxy
50 x more power than all the visible light in the Universe
WWhat do we have in common in this room with gravitational waves?
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source: http://matt.might.net
Bressert et al., 2012
natural language processing
king - man + women =
king - man + women = queen
Paris - France + Italy =
Paris - France + Italy = Rome
Computer vision examples
source: https://www.nextrembrandt.com
Computer vision examples
source: https://www.nextrembrandt.com
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.0657
traveling salesman problem
traveling salesman problem
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A decade in academia taught me a bunch of
sophisticated algorithms; a decade in industry taught me when not to use them.
- Monica Rogati
did not use the top performing algorithm
result:
a/b testing
@ Netflix
data science isn't about the tools, it's about how you use them as a means to an end
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Data Moats- Pete Skomoroch
start banking questions
nearly done
the future of data science?
Data science in the future
Data science in the future
all things data will be ubiquitous
imagination is your only limit
@astrobiased @netflixdata [email protected]?