One Text / Two Languages
February 15th, 2019
This workshop covered how linguists gather, process and analyze code-switched data, exploring the NPL pipeline for processing multilingual texts and discussing various approaches to language identification.…
Commonsense Reasoning without Commonsense Knowledge
November 30th, 2018
Reading comprehension tasks measure the ability to answer questions that require inference from a free text story. This talk explores two machine learning approaches.…
QED Center for Global Data Visualization: Twenty Years of Turning Data into Big Ideas
November 30th, 2018
QED works with local and global partners to effectively implement their programs and adapt to change. Its collaborative partnerships help maximize resources while driving better results for sustainable change.…
Hala Systems Inc. – Protect Everything That Matters
October 4th, 2018
Hala Systems develops advanced solutions for civilian and asset protection, accountability, and the prevention of violence before, during, and after conflict with the aim to reduce harm, increase security, and stabilize communities.…
Working at the Intersection of Data Science and NLP
September 20th, 2018
A glimpse of work that occurs at the intersection of data science and natural language processing, including cross-cultural name matching, Arabic proximity search, Chinese IR for term highlighting, Korean word similarity, and emoji processing for sentiment analysis.…
Scalable nd-arrays for Neuroimaging and Beyond
September 21st, 2018
This talk introduces Bolt, an open-source implementation of an ndarray built on PySpark. Bolt provides a familiar API enabling distributed computations across one or more array dimensions at a time……
The Silicon Petri Dish: Modeling, Simulation, and Data Science
December 14th, 2017
Using an initial set of assumptions about the state of the world derived from data analytics, a computer simulation model functioning as a “silicon petri dish” can be used to create synthetic data containing salient features of the real data set.…
Comparative Overview of Programming Languages for Data-Intensive Projects
October 24th, 2017
Leo Osvald, PhD candidate at Purdue University View Presentation Abstract: DIY technological devices, making, and hacking are becoming more and more accessible for anybody.…
Challenges and Successes of Managing Big Data
September 25th, 2017
This seminar defines what Big Data is, and what challenges industry and research community face in dealing with Big Data……
A Practitioner’s Look at Speech -to-Text
September 15th, 2017
Discussion of the basics of signal processing for speech recognition, acoustic and language models, and how they are jointly maximized to produce text.
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Build Your Own Data Collection IoT Devices
October 16th, 2017
DIY technological devices, making, and hacking are becoming more and more accessible for anybody. Especially for creating your own data and doing your own analytics this trend offers exiting opportunities…
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Big Data Analytics Using Public Clouds
May 4th, 2017
Big Data is no longer a buzz word. Public cloud is no longer the new kid in the block. The promise of elastic, reliable, inexpensive, managed services from public cloud providers has excited enterprises to store more data than ever before……
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Stories That Trump Machine Learning
May 4th, 2017
The expression “garbage in, garbage out” is known to all. But what does this mean for machine learning and data mining?…
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Recent Advances and Challenge Problems for Machine Learning in Climate Science
May 4th, 2017
Despite the scientific consensus on climate change, drastic uncertainties remain. Crucial questions about changes in regional climate, trends of extreme events…
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How NYC is Using Analytics to Keep New Yorkers Safe
June 23rd, 2017
The discussion covers how the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics (MODA) uses citywide data and analytics to identify likely cases of tenant harassment throughout NYC.
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