Tuesday
Arts & Crafts with AWS Glue Workshop
Presented by: Lydia White, James Zhang
Time: Tuesday 8:00 AM - 12:00 PMConstructing and administering a big data scale Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) and Business Intelligence (BI) pipeline can be expensive and complicated. Fortunately, Amazon Web Services (AWS) simplifies this with Glue and QuickSight services. Glue, a fully managed, serverless and cloud-optimized...
Room: Salon HTrack: DataFormat: PreCompilerLevel: Introductory and overviewWednesday
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Thursday
Making Faces: Image Reduction and Recognition
Presented by: Steve Crow
Time: Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AMA 350px by 300px image contains 105,000 individual pixels. Comparing each pixel to tell whether or not two images are the same is not efficient. What if we could reduce the number of features, while still maintaining patterns and trends? What if we could perform this recognition by only comparing 25...
Room: Salon DTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewSupport Emoji 💁♀️ and Go Worldwide 🌐 with Unicode
Presented by: Joe Sewell
Time: Thursday 9:15 AM - 10:15 AMAs the world becomes more and more connected, the way people communicate becomes more and more important. A prominent example is emoji: those little icons that are popular in text messages 📱 and on social media 🤝. Proposals for new emoji will often make the news. But did you know that emoji...
Room: RosewoodTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewGraphing Your Way Through the Cosmos: Common Data Problems Solved with Graphs
Presented by: Chad Green
Time: Thursday 11:45 AM - 12:45 PMData as it appears in the real world is naturally connected, but traditional data modeling focuses on entities which can cause for complicated joins of these naturally connected data. That is where graph databases come in as they store data more like what happens naturally in the real world. Sure,...
Room: Salon ATrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewHOW TO HACK AN ELECTION
Presented by: Gary Short
Time: Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMThink your democracy is safe? Better think again. In this session I'll demonstrate the techniques that the 'black hat data scientists' use to get the result they want from any election or referenda. In this entertaining talk, I'll demonstrate techniques, both at the macro level - how to attack an...
Room: NileTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewLearning R through sports, or learning sports through R
Presented by: Mike Roznik
Time: Thursday 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMBig data has been a buzzword for years, but it’s only recently been hitting the world of professional sports. How do sports teams use this big data? Why with R! Together we’ll learn what kind of data they look for and how they present it. Along the way we’ll look at real world examples of R...
Room: Salon HTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewFriday
You Version Your Code, Why Not Your Database?
Presented by: Derek Binkley
Time: Friday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMCode versioning is an integral part of any developers daily workflow. However, database changes are often handled manually making automatic code deploys a challenge. If something goes wrong, rolling back a deployment requires either complex and possibly untested scripts or a database...
Room: OrangeTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewNot Just Fun and Games: Creating a Chess AI That Can Beat You
Presented by: David Hauck
Time: Friday 12:15 PM - 1:15 PMAI is in the news seemingly every week. Whether it is people like Elon Musk or Steven Hawking warning the public about them or a new program that can beat humans at yet another task, it is definitely a hot topic. This talk will go through how an AI program that can play chess is actually made. Using...
Room: Salon HTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewRaiders of the Lost Query: Learning Best Practices for Exploratory Data Analysis in R Programming
Presented by: Pierre DeBois
Time: Friday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PMIndiana Jones had his hat, his whip, and his wits to save the day. But developers and managers need a lot more to program data models. With so many dataset tools for data science available, managers and developers can create statistical programming models, but are overwhelmed as to how to best...
Room: Salon ETrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overview