Service-Oriented Data Pipelines & Convolutional Networks in Scala (Joint Meetup)

Hello Scala Members!

We've teamed up with the Data Science Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/DataScience/) to organize an event focused on bringing you some actionable code for projects and APIs available for Scala and data applications. To start, Yasha Podeswa from Hootsuite's Data Lab will talk about building service-oriented data pipelines for business intelligence teams, and provide a live coding session. To wrap up our event, I'll be giving a short Introduction to Deeplearning4j in Scala, and show you how to setup and train a basic convolutional network.

Location is TBA and the date Thursday April 14 @ 6pm. Doors open at 6 and presentations will start at 6:30pm.

Looking forward to seeing you all there! I've included detailed summaries of the talks below.

Best,

Justin

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Building a Service Oriented Data Pipeline, Yasha Podeswa - Hootsuite

Like many software projects, data pipelines built by Business Intelligence teams often start out as quickly built monoliths, but over time they can be made simpler and more maintainable by splitting them into a series of tightly defined services. In this talk we'll look at the challenges we've faced scaling Data Analytics at Hootsuite, then move into a live coding session, where we'll stitch together a data pipeline as a series of Scala apps, deployed to AWS Lambda, connected using Airbnb's open source Airflow tool.

Introduction to Deeplearning4j in Scala, Justin Long - Bernie A.I.

After discovering the limitations of PCA-based algorithms for machine learning, Bernie A.I. believes convolutional networks and deep learning have greater potential for vision-based applications for online dating. In search of a tool that was pure JVM, Long found Deeplearning4j. DL4J is about to become a serious computational tool for the JVM community, and the authors behind the project have designed the APIs to be 100% Scala friendly. Justin will be giving a short introduction to building and training a convolutional neural network in Scala and highlight the basics of using the Deeplearning4j library.