Silicon Valley Data Science Camp 2015

PayPal Town Hall

2161 North 1st St

San Jose, CA 95131

Event Details

Data Science Camp is SF Bay ACM's annual event combining sessions, keynote, and optional tutorial (paid). It's an excellent opportunity to learn about Data Science and connect with others, and we keep it near-free ($5 charge, includes coffee & lunch), now running in its seventh year.

Additional session topics are invited and may include (but are not limited to):

Models: Deep Learning, xgboost, clustering, training, deployment, feature engineering
Domains/verticals: Big Data, e-commerce, fraud detection, search, NLP/ontologies, trading/finance, Bitcoin, IT security, healthcare, environmental
Tools and technologies: Spark/MLib, R, Python, PMML, Hadoop, GPU
Related areas: Visualization, Data Engineering, Career Opportunities, Hiring Roundtable et al.
Session proposals are welcome from both individuals and companies. Please consider volunteering to speak or recommending people. You may submit your own session ideas or review/ vote on proposed sessions on Campsite.

Keynote: Spark for Data Science, Big and Small, given by Joseph Bradley, a Spark Committer working on MLlib at Databricks.

Optional morning tutorial ($40): Introduction to R for Machine Learning, by Joseph Rickert and Robert Horton of Microsoft.

See an example of our 2014 topics.

Visit our campsite planning page to suggest sessions, comment on sessions, or vote on new sessions.

Eventbrite - Data Science Camp Silicon Valley 2015

Schedule

8:30 Tutorial registration

8:50 - 10:50 Introduction to R for Machine Learning ($40), by Joseph Rickert and Robert Horton of Microsoft

(Inviting proposals now)

10:30 Unconference Registration

11:00 Unconference Kickoff, welcome and Gold+ sponsor presentations

Keynote: Spark for Data Science, Big and Small by Joseph Bradley, Databricks .

12:25 Session proposals, voting and assignment time slots and to rooms sized to match the voting

1:15 Lunch provided by our sponsors, posting of session matrix

2:00 Session time slot 1 (with rooms to support 6+ concurrent sessions)

3:00 Session time slot 2 (sessions are 50 minutes, with a 10 minute break between sessions)

4:00 Session time slot 3

5:00 Session time slot 4

6:00 Wrap up, invite session attendees to share highlights so you can hear about sessions you missed.

The keynote: Spark for Data Science, Big and Small discusses recent and upcoming advances in Apache Spark to facilitate data science. Spark's wide adoption largely stems from allowing fast, iterative analysis, both on a laptop and on large computing clusters. This interactivity has led many data scientists to adopt Spark for both exploratory analysis and production modeling and scoring.

Rates goes up on October 21 to $8.00/person for the Camp and $45 for the tutorial. No refunds after October 21

Here are some videos from last year:

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