What we’re about
We are one of New York City's largest groups of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Machine Learning Engineers.
We meet monthly, in-person, in New York City.
This event is sponsored by BlackTree AutoML, literally the fastest deep learning software on Earth, which is free for non-commercial purposes up to 2,500 rows / images.
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Machine Learning and Genetics
The Westbury, 20 West 38th Street, New York City, NY, USIn this event, you will learn about DNA, in particular, Mitochondrial DNA, otherwise known as mtDNA, which is inherited directly from a mother to its offspring.
We will then discuss Machine Learning techniques that will allow you to cluster mtDNA, and even predict the ethnicity of individuals based upon their mtDNA alone.
We will then reconstruct literally all of human history using other Machine Learning techniques, going all the way back to the first humans in Africa, taking a pit stop in classical civilizations like Ancient Egypt and Phoenicia, culminating in an analysis of modern mtDNA, that connects us to our deepest past.
All genomes in the dataset are courtesy of the National Institutes of Health. Code is courtesy of BlackTree AutoML.
Slides (including the dataset and code) are here.
See you soon!
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