Crash Course on Multilingual Word Embedding and Text Classification

Welcome to Data on Tap's first event in 2020! To kick things off, Chloe Kwon and Kevin Horecka will be telling you briefly, but enthusiastically, about Data in the News! What models, discoveries, and tools were in the news during the month of January and February? Come to the event and find out!

Then, for our main event, we'll hear from Deeksha Yennam. Deeksha is a Senior Data Scientist at Walmart Tech and will be walking you through what word embedding is, how to classify documents using word embedding, as well as her favorite pre-trained model to use when the documents/texts you're trying to classify is in a different language.

We welcome inputs from interested Data Science enthusiasts and professionals on these ideas, techniques, and their implementation as well as any other questions or comments. Our goal is to make this event fun and informative!

Agenda:

6:30 - Door opens / drinks / meet the speaker and members
7:00 - 7:15 - Data in the News
7:15 - 8:00 - Talk + Q&A
8:00 - 8:30 - Discussion / Come talk to the speaker!

The event is free, and everyone is welcome. Free drinks (beer and non-beer)/food will be provided.