Evolving a Machine Learning & Analytics Platform in Python

About:

Vantage Analytics integrates with eCommerce platforms like Shopify to provide Amazon-like capabilities to merchants. Our stack is a Python back-end with AngularJS for the front-end. We started with a pretty simple Django app using MySQL with scikit-learn for predictive modelling. Along the way we added Celery and Redis, statsmodels for forecasting, and we're in the process of moving our data analysis into Cassandra with Spark. This talk will focus on technology choices and how we've grown the system from just a few stores to thousands in less than a year.

Speaker Bio: Brandon is the CTO and Co-Founder of Vantage Analytics. He has 15 years of experience writing code and building systems in Java, Python and more. Before Vantage he ran R&D at Angoss Software, a predictive analytics tool company, and spent time at NexJ and Workbrain.

Notes:

We will be giving away two tickets to #fstoco and a copy of "REST API Design Rulebook" by Mark Masse courtesy of O'Reilly Media!

Agenda

6:45-7:10 - People Arrive
7:10-7:15 - #fstoco announcements
7:15-8:00 - Speaker
8:00-9:00 - Networking (Special things bring provided by Shopify, thank them!)