Python Data Science

Thanks to Microsoft NERD for hosting us, and BigR.io for sponsoring food!

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Following the below agenda are Speaker Bio's and Transportation options.

AGENDA:

(1) Squeezing all the Juice From Your Model: Automatically Tuning Machine Learning Algorithms with Whetlab and scikit-learn - Alex Wiltschko

https://www.whetlab.com/

(2) Survival analysis using Numpy and Pandas - Allen Downey, Professor at Olin College, author of several O'Reilly Python books

http://allendowney.blogspot.com/

(3) An email mining pipeline using Flask, Scikit-Learn, Plotly, Pandas, and Passage - Gideon Wulfsohn

BIOS:

Allen Downey is a Professor of Computer Science at Olin College and author of Think Python, Think Stats, Think Bayes, and Think Complexity, published by O’Reilly Media and available under a Creative Commons license from greenteapress.com

He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley. He has previously taught at Colby College and Wellesley College, and was a Visiting Scientist at Google, Inc.

Gideon Wulfsohn is a CS student at Tufts.

Alex Wiltschko is pursuing a PhD in Neuroscience at Harvard University and received his BS in Neuroscience from the University of Michigan. He has created mobile and scientific software used by tens of thousands of people in classrooms and laboratories around the world. Alex co-founded Whetlab, a company building an assembly line for artificial intelligence. He's excited to work on Whetlab because it will rapidly accelerate the pace and quality of research and design, enabling new tools and treatments. Alex lives in Brookline, MA with his girlfriend and their plants.

TRANSPORTATION:

MBTA:

Red line subway stop is nearby. Several buses go into Kendall Square.

Parking:

*MIT has a few free parking lots - Hayward Street and E51 on Amherst Street. Please use online maps for directions. Information can be found here at the bottom of the page:

http://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/parking/visitors/public_parking.html

*Microsoft has a basement garage parking lot - cost is $10

*Metered parking on Main Street and some MIT streets - if you use this option please make sure you check the street signs and meters to know what time these become free so you do not get a ticket.