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Deep Learning Adventures welcomes Dan Becker, Rachael Tatman and Ryan Holbrook

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Deep Learning Adventures welcomes Dan Becker, Rachael Tatman and Ryan Holbrook

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In collaboration with: Deep Learning Adventures
https://www.meetup.com/Deep-Learning-Adventures/events/275732918

It is our great pleasure to welcome 3 guest speakers for a fun conversation around data science and Kaggle courses. Deep Learning Adventures welcomes Dan Becker, Rachael Tatman and Ryan Holbrook for a chat, get to know each other better, share some feedback on this great resource and discuss a bit about some cool projects they are currently working on.

Join us on Slack:
https://join.slack.com/t/deeplearninga-nmk8930/shared_invite/zt-juzyivae-2Ast_gdURvEf~zkT6QKNdQ

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84402592502?pwd=d1lVSkxQZE1sSGljR3dXaEZwYmNEdz09

Agenda, all times are in EST:
• 7:00pm Introductions and get to know our community
• 7:10pm Your experience at Kaggle and putting together your Kaggle courses. Future plans for Kaggle Learn.
• 7:30pm What advice would you give to 3 different members: beginner in data science (0-1 years), intermediate (1-3 years) and advanced (3+ years) in improving their skills and making a difference in the world
• 7:45pm What advice would you give to someone looking for an entry level role (career change) in data science? What about an experienced data scientist looking for a new role?
• 8pm What cool projects are you currently working on?
• 8:15pm Open floor for questions and comments
• 8:30pm Thank you for joining us

Panelist information and background
Dan Becker
Founder of Decision AI
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dansbecker
• Founded Kaggle Learn, a data science training platform used by over 40k users each month
• Contributed to the Keras and Tensorflow libraries for deep learning
• Finished 2nd (out of 1353 teams) in the $3million Heritage Health Prize data mining competition
• Supervised data science consulting projects for 6 companies in the Fortune 100.

Rachael Tatman
Senior Developer Advocate at Rasa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachael-tatman-500a323a
Some more information about Rachael based on her website: http://www.rctatman.com
• Rachael is a developer advocate for Rasa, where she is helping developers build and deploy conversational AI applications using Rasa's open source framework.
• She has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Washington. Her research was on computational sociolinguistics, or how our social identity affects the way we use language in computational contexts.
• Previously she was a data scientist at Kaggle and is still a Grandmaster.
• Rachael has an active streaming schedule available at: http://www.rctatman.com

Ryan Holbrook
Data Scientist at Kaggle
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-holbrook-98b49a175
• Ryan is an AI educator on the Kaggle Learn team
• His courses cover Intro to Deep Learning and Computer Vision
• Ryan is a great supporter and very active on our Kaggle forums

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