John Foreman: Learning to do data science at MailChimp

Agenda:

6:30 - 7:00 pm : Food and networking

7:00 - 7:15 pm : Group business/Announcements

7:15 - 8:15 pm : Talk + Q&A

Talk Summary:

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.

Learning to do data science at MailChimp

This talk will cover:

What makes for an effective data science team at a midsize business whose primary product has little to do with analytics? How did MailChimp use its data in service of the customer experience? What were the key challenges to MailChimp's success in data science?

Speaker Bio:

John Foreman is Chief Data Scientist at MailChimp

http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwforeman