Earlier this month, Data Science Salon hosted a webinar with Kevin Zielnicki, Machine Learning Architect at Stitch Fix. He spoke about Stitch Fix’s approach to personalized fashion recommendations and specifically, a novel model called the Client Time Series Model (CTSM). … Continue reading Webinar Summary: Unifying Data and Models for Cross-Domain Personalized Fashion Recommendations
Even in the time of COVID-19, Meetups are still happening virtually! Last week I tuned into Dataiku‘s talk on “Recommender Systems and Deep Models at Etsy” presented by Moumita Bhattacharya, Senior Data Scientist at Etsy. This was an introduction to … Continue reading Recommender Systems at Etsy
Last week’s R-Ladies NYC Meetup was one focused on productivity and presentability. The evening consisted of two talks, both by Biostaticians of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, with Jessica talking about her timetrackR Shiny app and Margie talking about the … Continue reading R-Ladies NYC: timetrackR and {gtsummary}
Last week, I attended a Dataiku screening of “Data Science Pioneers,” a documentary about data science and its role in our evolving technological society. The documentary brought to light many valid points regarding society’s perspective of data science, the field … Continue reading Data Science Pioneers: Conquering the Next Frontier
On Tuesday, I attended an R-Ladies NYC Meetup which included an interesting talk on using parameters for R Markdown reports. This talk was presented by Elizabeth Mauer, a Research Biostatistician at Weill Cornell Medicine. At work, Elizabeth creates a lot … Continue reading Parameterizing R Markdown Reports
On Tuesday, I attended a Meetup event at General Assembly that included two talks from Dataiku and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Center. Hosted by Dataiku, the evening started off with Will Nowak, Solutions Architect at Dataiku, and his talk on: … Continue reading AutoML and Applying Bayesian Methods to Clustering Models
On June 19th, I attended the R-Ladies Lightning Talks event, a series of 5 minute talks presented by several members of the R-Ladies community. This event provided a great way to learn about some of the organizations members, and how … Continue reading R-Ladies Lightning Talks
On Thursday, I attended my first R-Ladies NYC meetup! R-Ladies NYC is an organization that promotes gender diversity amongst the R community by organizing a series of events (including this meetup) to support women who want to learn R or … Continue reading Data Science and Fantasy Baseball?
Tools for Productionalizing Data Science On Thursday, I attended my first data science meetup at General Assembly in combination with Dataiku and The New York Times. This meetup focused on useful tools for data science in production. Why is data science in production so important? And what does this even mean? Well, data scientists get caught up in creating functional models that produce accurate results, but what happens after the model is created is equally as important. Data science in production is simply the deployment of models. If a model is not properly deployed or even accessible, then guess what? … Continue reading So You Built a Model, Now What?
Journey to Data Scientist 