Sculpting Data for ML: The first act of Machine Learning + Book Giveaway

We are THRILLED to announce the February meetup topic and speaker, and it's one we feel anyone working with data (and machine learning) will appreciate and enjoy.

In addition, the featured speaker is a good friend of ATO who recently published her first book, which we'll be giving away both physical and e-book copies of to attendees.

Speaker: Jigyasa Grover, Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter and the author of the book 'Sculpting Data for ML'.

'Sculpting Data for AI' book link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RN47C5T

Bio: Jigyasa Grover is a Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter and the author of the book 'Sculpting Data for ML'. She has a myriad of experiences from her brief stints at Facebook, Inc., National Research Council of Canada, and Institute of Research & Development France involving Data Science, mathematical modeling, and software engineering. Having graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a Master's degree in Computer Science with an Artificial Intelligence specialization, she is presently plying her past experiences and knowledge towards Applied Machine Learning in the online advertisements prediction and ranking domain. Red Hat 'Women in Open Source' Academic Award Winner and Google Summer of Code alumna, Jigyasa is an ardent open-source contributor as well. She served as the Director of Women Who Code and Lead of Women Techmakers for a handful of years to help bridge the gender gap in technology. In her quest to build a powerful community of girls and boys alike, and believing in "we rise by lifting others," she mentors aspiring developers and Machine Learning enthusiasts in various global programs. She also has many international conference keynotes, technical talks, panels, workshops, blogs, and podcasts to her name. Apart from her technological ventures, she enjoys exploring new places, hanging out with friends and family, and has been recently having fun with baking. You can reach her out at jigyasa-grover.github.io.

Talk Title: The Importance of Data in the Machine Learning Ecosystem

Talk Abstract: Without a doubt, many recent breakthroughs in Machine Learning owe as much to having better data as they owe to having better models. A common experience among ML practitioners these days is that "data munging" occupies more time and effort than modeling. Despite these facts, data curation often does not get the limelight, be it Academia or the Industry. Jigyasa will put forward the importance of data in the Machine Learning ecosystem. She will also talk about her recently launched book "Sculpting Data for ML: The first act of Machine Learning" which helps identify valuable information from the extensive amount of crude data available at our fingertips.

The meetup will officially start at 12 noon ET and should wrap up by 1:00 pm ET. We'll begin with a few community announcements, then we'll get right to the presentation. Q&A will follow the talk.

As always, the meetup is 100% free, but does require registration here https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TAs8jbf2TumEfb5nVDfxWA

Contact us directly with questions at info@allthingsopen.org.