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Join Jet.com's & Jetblack's engineering teams at Betaworks Studios in NYC for tech talks on:
how to best collaborate between data science & data engineering teams
big data best practices
building a chatbot
& natural language processing
We'll have food, drinks, & plenty of opportunities for networking!
6:15pm - 6:45pm | Rolling registration
6:45pm - 6:50pm | - Announcements
6:50pm - 7pm | Lightning Talk Kevin Jerrard from Jet.com
Components of a Big Data platform for Machine Learning at scale
Successful Machine learning at scale requires a tight collaboration between Data Science & Big Data Engineering teams. In this presentation, Flash team (Big Data Engineering @Jet) will talk about components that you need to get right in order to make Machine Learning at scale successful. This segment will also include a quick demo of a cloud hosted notebook solution powered by Big Data technologies such as Spark
7pm - 7:10pm | Lightning Talk Aashish Srinivas from Jet.com
Reactive Data Pipelines
This talk will look at how Jet has applied the concepts of unix piping to improve our data pipelines. We will delve into how Jet implemented the concepts _stdin_, _stdout_, & _stderr_
7:10pm - 8pm | Workshop
How to Talk to a Machine: A Chatbot Tutorial
From ELIZA the computer therapist to your personal assistant Siri, consumers have been captivated by programs that "talk back". What data do we need to train a "Chatbot"? What kinds of models are available, & in what applications are they relevant? How can we evaluate whether a Chatbot is "good"? In this talk we will take a brief historical tour of conversational systems, & use the Ubuntu IRC Corpus to develop some example applications.
8pm - 8:30pm | Networking
Kevin is a software engineer working on one of the many data platforms at Jet. After studying Information Science at Cornell University, he worked with a handful of companies in finance & the big data space. In his free time, he enjoys obscure non-fiction & playing tourist in New York museums.
Joseph leads Data & Research Engineering at Jetblack, the first portfolio company in Walmart's Store No. 8 innovation incubator. He has previously worked as a Senior Data Scientist at Netflix, & in quantitative finance at AQR Capital Management.
Aashish is a software engineer at Jet, working on all things Big Data. He enjoys hiking, attending every home game of New York City's only soccer team (NYCFC), & trying to find the best bar nachos in New York City
Betaworks Studios is a new membership club for individuals looking to make a dent in the universe. Supported by innovative technology, this space is designed for connectivity within a curated community.
Studios is your space to meet, scheme, get advice, collaborate, do a little bit of work, attend events, & host events. For 10 years betaworks has been working & networking-building companies, running accelerators, investing in talent-and now we've opened our doors.
When designing Studios we aimed to build a functional, versatile space that can change & transform to suit the needs of the day or evening: events, discussions, group brainstorms, games, focused sprints. Move the furniture around: this is your club.
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