Domino Data Science Pop-Up: Talks with Data Scientists at Netflix, Domino & MapD

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This event is in partnership with Domino Data Science Pop-Up (https://www.dominodatalab.com/datapopup).

About the Talks & Presenters:

Presentation 1: Content Data Science at Netflix

Manuel Arora (https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-arora-phd-945343a3) is a Senior Data Scientist in the Content Science and Algorithms team at Netflix, where he works on evaluating and optimizing Netflix's content offering using Data Science and Machine Learning. Manuel's work informs Netflix's content programming strategy, pairing audiences with the most interesting content and evaluating where Netflix should invest their next content dollar using predictive models. Manuel will present an overview of the work done by him and his team, and how it fits into the larger ecosystem of Data Science at Netflix.

A mathematician by trade, Manuel worked as a Data Scientist for Twitter and a Researcher at Caltech before joining Netflix in 2016. He currently resides in Los Angeles after having lived in San Francisco for a couple of years.

Presentation 2: From Hours to Milliseconds: How GPUs are Reinventing Visual Analytics

Todd Mostak (https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddmostak) is the founder and CEO of MapD, a pioneer in building GPU-tuned analytics and visualization applications for the enterprise. Todd conceived of the idea of using GPUs to accelerate the extraction of insights from large datasets while conducting his Harvard Graduate research on the role of Twitter in the Arab Spring. Frustrated by the capabilities of conventional technologies to allow for the interactive exploration of these multi-million row datasets, Todd built one of the first GPU-based databases.

Upon completion of his studies at Harvard, Todd joined MIT as a research fellow at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, focusing on GPU databases and visualization before founding the company in late 2013. Todd received his undergraduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Economics and Anthropology.

Agenda:

6:00pm - Doors open, networking, light refreshments

6:30pm - Presentation 1 Kickoff

7:00pm - Presentation 2 Kickoff

7:30pm - Q&A, networking continued

About Galvanize:

Galvanize is an education company that blends the lines between learning and working. We believe in creating easy access for anyone who has the drive and determination to jump into the tech world, especially in entrepreneurship, engineering, and data science. Our campuses are home to students, startups, investors, mentors, and other people who are engaged and excited to level up their skills. To learn more about Galvanize, visit galvanize.com (http://galvanize.com/).

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