Especially in a field as new and evolving as data science, your strategy is only as good as your product. Fortunately, the industry is not so new that help can’t be found. Lauren Lombardo, Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen, took the stage at DSSNYC to inform data...
In a world where even the most basic purchases and decisions depend on credit scores, accuracy holds significant weight. Gerald Fahner, Senior Principal Scientist at FICO, explains not only how his team uses machine learning to retrieve individual’s scores across...
When Subash D’Souza, Director of Data Intelligence at Warner Bros, spoke to us at The Data Science Salon in New York City in September 2018, he claimed that data security is the unsexy side of data. However, with cybersecurity programs popping up at universities...
In the next five years, media will be transformed by AI. AI will probably touch all aspects of the media value chain. We’re not at the beginning of this analytics revolution - we are at the end of the beginning, and the middle is going to be marked by widespread...
The birth of tech groups dedicated to women and underrepresented minorities (URM) is part of a wave of initiatives to support, encourage and mentor underrepresented groups in the tech sector. Simply go to meetup.com and you’ll see groups geared towards URM for almost...
It’s nearly impossible to remember what date night looked like before the coining of the term “Netflix and Chill.” With Netflix playing such an integral role in our daily lives, we were intrigued to hear from Jen Walraven, Manager of Science and Analytics at...
Hulu’s focus on subscriber retention and the models they’ve built to assess its implications make them an innovative player in the streaming industry. We were delighted to hear from Jeffrey Rosenberg, Head of Data and Analytics at Hulu, about the steps...
“Whether you have a digital product or a physical product, product management is about owning things from end to end and helping with the ideation process, defining MVPs and working with the data scientists and engineers to get something into the market.” -...
“A lot of people in practice talk about stationarity, but they define it very very loosely. They actually talk about stationarity as if the times don't change over time.” - Jeffrey Yau Thank you for coming. I head the data science team at Alliance Bernstein and...
April showers are the least of your worries this month as you cozy up on your couch for our upcoming events. DSSe is a space designed specifically for you, powerful female data leaders, and with your help, we will explore more deeply what that means. Putting...