For the annual UCLA DataFest, student worked hard with data pertaining to the monumental challenge we are all facing: COVID-19. This year’s virtual version of ASA DataFest at UCLA brought forth unforeseen challenges and wonderful opportunities. This beloved tradition is generally a competition wherein groups of three to five students have just 48 hours to make sense of a huge data set and present their findings in five minutes, using just two slides.
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Two Day Launch Event: Enabling Real Artificial Intelligence with Dell Technologies and PowerEdge
June 2, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Please join us for two free CrowdChat events on June 2 & 3 to learn how Dell Technologies and PowerEdge enable more organizations to leverage AI with VMware & Intel. Dell Technologies is already helping their customers explore and reap the benefits of this exciting new frontier with scalable, flexible solutions designed to help you solve complex problems faster than ever.
KDD 2020 Invites Top Data Scientists To Compete in 24th Annual KDD Cup
May 3, 2020 by Leave a Comment
The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining officially opened registration for its annual KDD Cup, the organization’s signature data science competition. This year’s competition features four distinct tracks that welcome participants to tackle challenges in e-commerce, generative adversarial networks, automatic graph representation learning (AutoGraph) and mobility-on-demand (MoD) platforms.
Livestream: Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference
March 2, 2020 by Leave a Comment
insideAI News, a Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference media collaborator, is pleased to present the WiDS Stanford livestream. The Global WiDS Conference aims to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and support women in the field. This annual one-day technical conference features outstanding women doing outstanding work.
30 Influential AI Presentations from 2019
January 5, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Our friends over at RE•WORK put on some amazing AI summits around the country and the world. The company has graciously made some of their top presentations from 2019 available for the data science community to freely view.
Scylla Summit 2019 Comes to San Francisco in November
September 30, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Scylla community members are invited November 5-6 to Scylla Summit 2019 in San Francisco. Use discount code InsideBigData50 to save 50% on a 2-day summit pass. “See us unveil our latest features, including Lightweight Transactions and Change Data Capture, learn about product-ready capabilities beyond what’s available in Cassandra, like Workload Prioritization, Materialized Views and Global Secondary Indexes, and get a preview of Project Alternator, our open source DynamoDB-compatible API.”
Field Report: KDD 2019
August 19, 2019 by Leave a Comment
As a very long time member of the ACM and their SIGKDD group, I’d always wanted to attend a KDD conference (first one occurred in 1995). This year I received a gracious invitation to attend KDD2019 in Anchorage, Alaska, August 4-8. It satisfied two of my bucket list items: witnessing a KDD first-hand and also […]
Field Report: GPU Technology Conference 2019 #GTC19
April 4, 2019 by 1 Comment
I eagerly attended my 3rd GPU Technology Conference (GTC): “Deep Learning & AI Conference,” in Silicon Valley, March 23-26 as a guest of host NVIDIA. GTC has become my favorite tech event of the year due to its highly focused topic areas that align well with my own; data science, machine learning, AI, and deep learning; plus the show has an academic feel that I appreciate.
Field Report: H2O World 2019 San Francisco
February 13, 2019 by 2 Comments
I was pleased to be on-hand for the recent (Feb. 4-5) H2O World 2019 conference in beautiful San Francisco. This was my first H2o.ai conference and I was looking forward to drilling down into their popular open source solutions for data scientists including the H2O machine learning platform, Sparkling Water machine learning platform on Spark, H2O4GPU accelerated AI for GPUs, as well as the groundbreaking Driverless AI automatic machine learning (AutoML) platform. With all this leading-edge technology and resulting industry buzz, I can see why the company recently ranked #9 on insideAI News’s IMPACT 50 list of the industry’s most impactful companies.
Fast Machine Learning for Smart Cities: RocketML at Global Tech Jam
August 6, 2018 by Leave a Comment
In this video from the Global Tech Jam 2018 conference on Smart Cities, Santi Adavani from RocketML describes how the company’s innovative software speeds Machine Learning. “To find the best model for a problem, data scientists try out different algorithms. With RocketML, they don’t have to. It is like a Hyperloop solution to go from point A to point Z. Simplified workflow yields new benefits.”
