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With Jeremy Salfen (Dir. Data, Kickstarter) & Guilherme de Oliveira (Data Scientist, Dataiku).
Thu, Sep 14, 2017 @ 06:00 PM   FREE   Dataiku, 26 Broadway
 
     
 
 
              

      
 
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Hi all,

Were glad to announce our second DataConnect meetup in NYC!

Jeremy Salfen, Director of Data at Kickstarter, will explain how his team built its recommender system from scratch & give attendees tips & tricks to help them create their own.

Guilherme de Oliveira, Data Scientist at Dataiku, will present ause case on recommender engines using a dataset involving beer check-ins in New York.




Lessons Learned from Building a Recommender System:

Kickstarters data team built its project recommendations with the following mindset: start simple & only add complexity when necessary. From a query with under 10 lines of code to a micro service running an ensemble of collaborative filtering & content-based models, Jeremy & his team developed their system almost entirely from scratch, iteratively building & learning from the results. You will learn about the algorithms they used, the infrastructure they built, & the experiments they run to validate their effect on the user experience.

Jeremys bio:

Jeremy is Director of Data at Kickstarter. His current focus is building data products to improve Kickstarter's user experience & refining the company's approach to the design & analysis of experiments. You can follow him on Twitter at @jsalfen.


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Guilhermes bio:

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gdeoliveira/">Guilherme is a Data Scientist at Dataiku. He works out of the headquarters in NYC where he helps customers build & deploy predictive applications. Before joining Dataiku, he was a fellow at the Insight Data Science Fellowship program, & prior to that he worked in quantitative finance. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics.

Agenda:

6:00 PM: Pizza, beer, & networking
6:30 PM: Jeremy'spresentation
7:00 PM: Guilhermes presentation
7:15 PM: Q&A
7:30 PM: More pizza, beer, & networking




PS: Kickstarter is hiring! Check out their career page for open positions.

PPS: Our DataConnect meetups are designed to provide you with insights from a wide range of industry experts, to bring together data professionals & enthusiasts to share insights, lessons learned, best practices, & to discover the latest technologies in the data ecosystem.
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