Recommender System in Digital Media

Schedule:

6:00 - Doors & Food
6:30 - Talk 1
7:15 - Talk 2
8:00 - Wrap & Chat

Talk 1:
Speaker: Adam Kelleher, Principal Data Scientist @ BuzzFeed

Talk 2: Building the Next New York Times Recommendation Algorithm
Speaker: Alex Spangher, Data Engineer @ New York Times Digital
Abstract:
In this talk, I'll talk about several approaches taken during our work on the next New York Times Recommendation Engine, specifically focusing on spatial reasoning, dimensionality reduction, and testing strategies. Topics covered will include implicit regression, Bayesian modeling and neural networks. If there is additional time, I will talk about our crowdsourcing pipeline for emotion-tagging.