February Meetup: SHAP and Data Viz

A big shout out to General Mills for hosting us and providing us food!

We have two presentations lined up:

1. Brianna Frederick will present on SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations)

Not all machine learning models are created equal. More advanced methods lead to greater accuracy, but at the expense of interpretability. This talk will discuss how to utilize SHAP to understand and interpret the results of complex machine learning models without sacrificing accuracy or interpretability. We will also compare and contrast SHAP with other interpretability schemes.
About Brianna:
Brianna is a Senior Data Scientist on the Enterprise Data Capabilities team at General Mills. Previously, Brianna worked with Metro Transit performing failure prediction and reliability analysis for the transit bus system. Brianna has a Masters in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelors in Mathematical Economics from Augsburg University. Brianna is currently teaching courses in the MSBA program at Hamline University. When she isn't working, she loves to spend time with her husband, daughter, dogs, and cat.

2. Alana Deranek will present on best practices in data visualization

Learn to apply lessons from the fields of Psychology and cognitive science to make your visualizations into powerful communication tools.
About Alana:
Alana is a Healthcare Analyst Principal at Blue Cross Blue Shield MN working on market intelligence. She formerly worked at Optum where she built performance dashboards and monitoring tools. She has a Masters of Business Administration from Augsburg and studied Psychology, human cognition and communication at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

Parking: park in the employee parking ramp on the north side of the building.

Direction to the conference room: To get to the room from the employee parking ramp (north ramp), enter the building and get a badge from security (will need to show ID), enter the security gates, walk down the hall past the store and take the escalator on the left to the second floor. Once on the second floor, turn and head toward the seating area with all of the windows. The conference room will be on the left side.