Featured Talk by #1 Kaggle-Ranked Data Scientist Owen Zhang
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No. 1 Kaggler Owen Zhang will share a few tips on modeling competitions!!
This is an opportunity to learn the tips, tricks and techniques Owen employs in building world-class predictive analytic solutions.
He has competed in and won several high profile challenges, and is currently ranked No. 1 out of a community of over 240,000 data scientists on Kaggle.
Owen Zhang is the Chief Product Officer at DataRobot. Owen spent most of his career in the Property & Casualty insurance industry. Most recently Owen served as Vice President of Modeling in the newly formed AIG Science team. After spending several years in IT building transactional systems for commercial insurance, Owen discovered his passion in Machine Learning and started building insurance underwriting, pricing, and claims models. Owen has a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Toronto and a Bachelors degree from University of Science and Technology of China.
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If you know kaggle.com(the biggest data scientists competition platform), you must have known Owen Zhang. He has been ranked as world #1 for a long time. His score almost doubles the second place.
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photo 1: Top 10 Data Scientists on Kaggle
Owen is a heavy R user and currently is Chief Product Officer at DataRobot. http://www.DataRobot.com provides jumpstart predictive modeling initiatives by immediately zooming in on the techniques and data sources that promise the best results.
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photo 2: DataRobot website
We feel very honored to host his talk. Due to the space, we can only take 100 RSVP. Sign up ASAP!
Networking starts at 6:30pm, with the talk will start at 7:00pm.
Featured Talk by #1 Kaggle-Ranked Data Scientist Owen Zhang