Interpreting Machine Learning&Brief peek into interesting real-world apps for AI

Agenda:
6:00pm - 6:30pm - ODSC Intro, Food & Refreshments.
6:30pm - 7:00pm - Speaker One and Q&A
7:00 - 7:10 - Break
7:10 - 7:50 - Speaker Two and Q&A
7:50 - 8:10 - Networking space

Speaker One: Anand Subramanian, CEO, Co-founder at Gramaner
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanand0/

Topic:
Interpreting Machine Learning

Bio:
Anand is rated among top 10 data scientists in India. A Gold medalist from IIM Bangalore. Alum of IIT Madras, BCG, Infosys Consulting & IBM. Geek to the core.
His affair with programmatically analyzing data began in the mid-90s at IIT Madras. From Linux based grep, sed and awk, he then moved on to PERL and Excel, and now Python. "Tools are never the concern, the motive and the execution is," believes Anand.

Abstract:
Machine learning algorithms are increasingly black-box models. However, their outputs are business data that humans need to understand and act upon. For example, if a clustering model suggests 4 customer clusters, how do we identify and characterize these? If a random forest model suggests a pattern of classification, how do we understand the dominant factors and the irrelevant ones?

These topics fall under the umbrella of model visualization -- where the inputs, process, and output of machine learning models are the topics of understanding. This talk explores some of the prevalent ways of visualizing machine learning models.

Speaker Two: Dipanjan Sarkar, Data Scientist at Red Hat and Aagam Shah, Data Scientist & Software Engineer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dipanzan
https://www.linkedin.com/in/abs51295

Topic:
A brief peek into interesting real-world applications for AI

Bio:
Dipanjan (DJ) Sarkar is a Data Scientist at Red Hat, a published author and a consultant and trainer. He has consulted and worked with several startups as well as Fortune 500 companies like Intel. He primarily works on leveraging machine learning and deep learning to build large- scale intelligent systems. Having a passion for data science and education he also mentors people and organizations like Springboard and acts as the editor and key contributor for Towards Data Science an online publication dedicated to Data Science and AI.

Bio: Aagam is just a small kid with relevant skills and passion to make the world a better place. He was awarded with scholarship from Google for Udacity’s Android Developer Nanodegree, which allowed him to boast himself as an Android Developer. But life had its own plans and he found his interest in Data Science and eventually landed at the Red Hat Developer Tools Analytics team. Right now, his day usually involves solving problems which are a mix of Software Engineering and Data Science.

Abstract:
Thanks to better compute and storage, we have been finally able to dive into the realm of building applications powered by machine learning and deep learning. Solving real-world problems in the industry is slightly different from theoretical concepts or papers backed by research on standard datasets. Problems start cropping up including noise in data, lack of good quality data, sources of bias, class imbalance and domain-specific issues.

This talk will cover some interesting case-studies of problems I have solved in the past or which I'm trying to solve in the present, leveraging some crazy ideas from machine learning, deep learning and my personal intuition. Case studies we will cover include:

• Generating insights on enterprise incident data with NLP
• Predicting Device Failure with Deep Learning
• Detecting potential anomalies in Infrastructure
• AI Based Application Insights for Developers

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