Book Club: Designing Machine Learning Systems

About the Book
"This book will help you tackle scenarios such as:
* Engineering data and choosing the right metrics to solve a business problem
* Automating the process for continually developing, evaluating, deploying, and updating models
* Developing a monitoring system to quickly detect and address issues your models might encounter in production
* Architecting an ML platform that serves across use cases
* Developing responsible ML systems"
*https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60715378-designing-machine-learning-systems*

Schedule:
⏰ 19:00 - 19:10 Introduction to Women Coding Community
⏰ 19:10 - 20:00 Summary of chapters by WCC volunteers

If you want to have a say in the next book or volunteer with us, please join our Slack channel #prog_book_club! Book club meetups happen on the last Thursday of each month.

👩🏼 Host: Silke Nodwell | LinkedIn
Silke is currently a Machine Learning Engineer at PEI Group. She holds an MSci Mathematics, First Class Honours, from Imperial College London. In addition to her role at PEI, Silke is a Lead at Women Coding Community, where she runs the bookclub, contributes to the technical blog, and organises talks by inspirational women. In her free time, she enjoys running and is currently training for her first marathon in May 2025.

Co-host: Prabha Venkatesh | LinkedIn
Prabha is the Lead Data Scientist at Milbotix. She’s previously worked as a Full-stack Software Developer and holds a Master’s degree from Lancaster University. She’s also a mentor at the Women Coding Community. Her interests include reading books, swimming and travel.

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