Guest Speakers

In order of appearance. Updated with new information throughout the semester.

Doug Perlson, CEO of RealDirect.com, case study (9/12)

Jake Hofman, Microsoft Research, Naive Bayes, Scraping and using an API (9/19)

Brian Dalessandro, Media 6 Degrees, Classification, Logistic Regression and Evaluation (9/26)

Cathy O’Neil, mathbabe.org, Time series, Financial Modeling, Advanced Regression, and Ethics (10/3)

Kyle Teague, GetGlue, case study (10/3)

Will Cukierski, Kaggle, Decision Trees, Feature selection (10/10)

David Huffaker, Google, Applying data science in a hybrid research environment (10/10)

Matt Gattis, eBay, Recommendation Engines (10/17)

Mark Hansen, Columbia University, Data Visualization (10/24)

Ian Wong, Square, Data Science in Risk (10/24)

John Kelly, Morningside Analytics, Social Network Analysis (10/31)

David Madigan, Columbia University, Experiments (11/7)

Ori Stitelman, Media 6 Degrees, Observational Causal Modeling (11/14)

Claudia Perlich, Media 6 Degrees, Sampling and Data Leakage (11/18)

Josh Wills, Cloudera, Data Engineering (11/28)

David Crawshaw, Google, Data Engineering (11/28)

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