In a world where even the most basic purchases and decisions depend on credit scores, accuracy holds significant weight. Gerald Fahner, Senior Principal Scientist at FICO, explains not only how his team uses machine learning to retrieve individual’s scores across...
When Subash D’Souza, Director of Data Intelligence at Warner Bros, spoke to us at The Data Science Salon in New York City in September 2018, he claimed that data security is the unsexy side of data. However, with cybersecurity programs popping up at universities...
Last week, DSSNYC took over Viacom Headquarters in Manhattan’s Time Square with a series of talks led by the top experts in data science. While the talks covered a variety of different topics ranging from tone-recognition with AI to customer retention, the entire...
What do you get when you throw four talented data scientists in a room to serve on a panel about female inclusion in the data industry? We and Big Data Beard had the pleasure of finding out on February 22, 2019 at DSS Austin when we co-hosted a diversity and inclusion...
It’s nearly impossible to remember what date night looked like before the coining of the term “Netflix and Chill.” With Netflix playing such an integral role in our daily lives, we were intrigued to hear from Jen Walraven, Manager of Science and Analytics at...
Hulu’s focus on subscriber retention and the models they’ve built to assess its implications make them an innovative player in the streaming industry. We were delighted to hear from Jeffrey Rosenberg, Head of Data and Analytics at Hulu, about the steps...
“A lot of people in practice talk about stationarity, but they define it very very loosely. They actually talk about stationarity as if the times don't change over time.” - Jeffrey Yau Thank you for coming. I head the data science team at Alliance Bernstein and...
“A lot of the effort that we've done at S&P involves trying to think from the users’ standpoint. What are the key elements that will give them the most interactivity while still keeping the models intact?” - Moody Hadi Hi Everybody. My name is Moody Hadi and...
I just want to thank Anna and Jeremy and Formulated.by team for having me. I’m a designer as it says on the slide so I’m an ambassador from the other side. We’ve been hearing a lot about how data is about communication and how it’s about teams. I am here...
Hey guys! Thank you everyone for coming today. I’ll be talking about the applications of deep learning at Groupon. Particularly, I will focus on the applications within the ranking as well as their relevance and search capabilities. I’m a senior software engineer and...