Highlights from the Strata Data Conference in San Jose 2018
Watch highlights covering machine learning, business intelligence, data privacy, and more. From the Strata Data Conference in San Jose 2018.
Our take on the ideas, information, and tools that make data work.
Ideas
Identifying budding big data talent in your company
How to find promising candidates for upskilling within your organization.
Unleashing the potential of reinforcement learning
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Danny Lange on how reinforcement learning can accelerate software development and how it can be democratized.
Comparing production-grade NLP libraries: Training Spark-NLP and spaCy pipelines
A step-by-step guide to initialize the libraries, load the data, and train a tokenizer model using Spark-NLP and spaCy.
Comparing production-grade NLP libraries: Running Spark-NLP and spaCy pipelines
A step-by-step guide to building and running a natural language processing pipeline.
Comparing production-grade NLP libraries: Accuracy, performance, and scalability
A comparison of the accuracy and performance of Spark-NLP vs. spaCy, and some use case recommendations.
Big, fast, easy data with KSQL
A look at the new streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka.
Video
The data subject first?
Aurélie Pols draws a broad philosophical picture of the data ecosystem and then hones in on the right to data portability.
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Build a super fast deep learning machine for under $1,000
The adventures in deep learning and cheap hardware continue!
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How Pinterest uses humans in the loop to analyze clusters
June Andrews talks about simple, cost-effective algorithmic computing at scale.
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Probabilistic programming from scratch
Working with uncertainty in real-world data.
Reinforcement learning for complex goals, using TensorFlow
How to build a class of RL agents using a TensorFlow notebook.
An introduction to regular expressions
Decoding simple regex features to match complex text patterns.
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SQL Fundamentals for Data
Join Thomas Nield for a hands-on introduction to core database and SQL fundamentals.
Introduction to TensorFlow
Learn the basics of machine learning and deep learning using TensorFlow.
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