On June 13, 2019 at DSSNYC, five incredible female data scientists took the stage at Viacom for the first Data Science Salon Elevate panel in history. Though the panel was only 30 minutes long, the topics covered spanned from the different styles of mentorship...
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...
Marketing based on theory is no longer a viable option in global commerce. Clients base their strategies on hard facts, which are inevitably fueled by data. As a result, data scientists are high in demand at large and boutique media organizations alike and...
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...
Last week, DSSNYC took over Viacom Headquarters in Manhattan’s Time Square with a series of talks led by the top experts in data science. While the talks covered a variety of different topics ranging from tone-recognition with AI to customer retention, the entire...
What do you get when you throw four talented data scientists in a room to serve on a panel about female inclusion in the data industry? We and Big Data Beard had the pleasure of finding out on February 22, 2019 at DSS Austin when we co-hosted a diversity and inclusion...
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...
“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...