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Data Con LA 2020

date:2020-10-23..2020-10-25
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series:Data Con LA · 3 editions
editions:[Data Con LA 2019, Data Con LA 2020, Data Con LA 2021]
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Data Con LA 2020 KeynoteSubash DSouza02m
Eighth annual conference adapts from a planned on‑campus USC event to a virtual format after pandemic disruptions, preparations that start in February and…
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Continuous Intelligence: A Sea-Change in Streaming Data ProcessingSimon Crosby22m
Claim: continuous intelligence processes streaming data in-memory to analyze, learn and predict on the fly rather than store-then-analyze. Implementation: an…
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Why start using uplift models for more efficient marketing campaignsJing Pan32m
Uplift modeling replaces propensity scoring to optimize incremental revenue by estimating conditional average treatment effect per user using Uber’s…
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Using Data to Track Social ChangeJessica Medrano29m
A benchmark census of mainstream TV, OTT and top box-office films (Jan 2018–Aug 2020) parses every show and episode to ID lead actors, showrunners and episode…
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Tales of a German Building Diverse Teams Across All Time ZonesIsabella Zaczek32m
Built a global customer operations team for 250+ global accounts across five continents, using an 80/20 rule (80% unified processes, 20% local rituals) and…
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Sunday KeynotesRon Galperin, Brian Kursar, Larry Dominique, Lacey Plache, Brian Dolan, Michael Berman, Bryan Kirschner01h 15m
City of Los Angeles launches Control Panel LA (2013) and publishes a neighborhood COVID heatmap by race/age, a job‑loss map, an open checkbook with 10 years of…
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The State of Artificial Intelligence in the Nonprofit SectorJared Sheehan37m
PwrdBy releases a 35-page state report built from a 212-practitioner survey using diffusion of innovation theory plus a meta-analysis and investment review…
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Responsible AISuresh Paulraj39m
Microsoft presents concrete governance: six principles — fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, inclusivity, transparency, accountability —…
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Powering Location Data for GoodKarisa Schroeder40m
Location data connects disparate datasets and is 80% of data so it is used here to analyze, predict, and act with ArcGIS Hub, Living Atlas, story maps…
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Pitfalls and pro-tips for effective and transparent BI tools data science & applicationsJason Medina37m
Practical rules for self‑service BI: track data lineage with Confluence or a GitHub repo so analysts see source fields, favor a layered stack — a data reader…
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People Analytics and Data ScienceSreyoshi Bhaduri41m
Defines people analytics as using demographic engagement and interaction data to run descriptive predictive and diagnostic tasks and shows concrete examples…
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Panel - Data and GovernmentJagjit Dhaliwal, Kevin Gray, Jeanne Holm, Lea Eriksen, Phillip Leclair01h 33m
Los Angeles region agencies describe concrete results: a county information hub links records to find 20 million unique records and shows 1.34 million people…
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Panel - Accessibility Challenges in 2020Joe Devon, Bryce Johnson, Lori Samuels, Karo Caran01h 31m
Panel lists concrete wins and gaps: an Xbox Adaptive Controller ships with two large buttons and dozens of 3.5mm ports so external switches map to any…
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Owning Your Own (Data) Lake HouseAntje Barth41m
Demonstrates an Amazon Redshift lake house that queries S3, Redshift and RDS without moving data by using Redshift Spectrum to push down SQL, federated queries…
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Applying an intersectionality lens in data scienceDaphne Cheung, Rachel Whaley39m
Reframes predictive churn from “women vs men” to predicting employee churn overall, then disaggregate data into subpopulations (race, age, disability, sexual…
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Know Your Community: Data Power to the PeoplePreston Mills39m
City of LA turns open datasets into a neighborhood toolkit: a live Know Your Community portal built on GeoHub and data.lacity (over 1,000 datasets, 40M page…
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How to become a Business Intelligence AnalystChristian Bourdeau42m
Explains a concrete path from food photographer to senior BI roles at Nike and PlayStation by learning Excel, SQL, Python and Tableau, using cloud…
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Help Me, Help You: Supporting Your DataKisa Brostrom39m
Framework for turning analysis into revenue: collect time series and historic state early, build pipelines and a source‑of‑truth data model that cuts…
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Healthcare deserts: How accessible is US healthcare?Andrew Kaszpurenko32m
Uses Medicare procedure volumes and ZIP lat/long to map every US ZIP to its nearest hospital, computes travel thresholds in Python (brute force geodesic first…
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Gradient Boosting Machines (GBM): from Zero to Hero (with R and Python code)Szilard Pafka40m
Claims GBMs usually beat deep learning on structured/tabular business data and are easy to run: demos use xgboost lightgbm and h2o from R and Python on an…
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Effective Data-driven Product RoadmapsAlex Alwan37m
Framework for continuous roadmaps that scores ideas by reach, impact and effort and prioritizes using an impact vs effort matrix. Defines success per feature…
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DevOps is to Infrastructure as Code, as DataOps is to...?Karun Bakshi30m
Claim: Data Transformation as IaC makes DataOps scalable by treating transformations as repeatable, deployable code. Demonstrates a platform (Xcalar) that runs…
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Data Versioning - does it mean what we think it means?Einat Orr36m
Compares concrete tools and use cases: DVC and MLflow for versioning data+code+configs in ML pipelines; Iceberg, Hudi, Delta Lake for adding mutability to…
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Building Modern Data Pipelines on GCP via a FREE online BootcampParham Parvizi39m
Free online bootcamp teaches a runnable GCP pipeline that ingests multi-year flight data, profiles 30M+ user profiles and processes 100M+ streaming events…
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Data Mastering at Scale with AISonal Goyal37m
Enterprise MDM replaces brittle fuzzy keys with a pipeline that uses active learning, clustering and classification to learn blocking and matching rules…
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Complex Data Transformations Made EasyNikita Ogievetsky39m
Claims a cloud‑scale compute layer (Xcalar) that replaces low‑level Spark code with an IDE using SQL + Python and visual modules, demonstrated by converting…
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Combining datasets to find solutions to homelessnessAndres Ocon38m
66,000 people experience homelessness in Los Angeles, with about 25,000 unsheltered; Prop HHH funds a 10,000-unit goal and the city tracks 111 Triple H sites…
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Battery Storage Integration Into The Electric GridVivian Sultan43m
Presents a decision framework that scores sites by local supply versus demand, proximity to substations and circuit capacity constraints and instantiates it in…
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Actionable Data to Protect the PeopleRay Cheung26m
SmartAirLA builds a pilot system in the LA Harbor/Long Beach area that sends asthma alert texts and publishes an asthma heat map using anonymous, aggregated…
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Agile Scrum OverviewSonia Macias35m
Covers the agile manifesto and the 12 principles, explains Scrum roles (Product Owner, Development Team, Scrum Master), ceremonies (sprint planning, 15‑minute…
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AI and the LawMorvareed Salehpour41m
Survey of legal pain points for AI: explains that facial recognition error rates for minorities and women persist, that bots caused large-scale misinformation…
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Applying Data Science and Analytics in MarketingTochukwu Matthias40m
Describes building a marketing mix model over historical spend (company example: $20M annual marketing) that uses regression and ML to forecast returns and…
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Being Right Starts By Knowing You're WrongRyan Johnson41m
Argues that companies get the most value from explicitly measuring error, showing concrete metrics and examples: expected 1,000 units vs 670 (330 units error)…
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Big Data And The Law: What Every Data Enthusiast Should KnowHana Oh41m
Legal practice now uses e-discovery, litigation analytics and electronic forensics to handle massive data: tens of millions of patents complicate…
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Calling All Data Scientists for the Common Good in CitiesEva Pereira18m
Los Angeles runs two volunteer programs: Data Angels (career data scientists) and Data Science Federation (17 universities, 300 students, 30+ projects). City…
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Commandeer Your Data in The CloudAlex Tamoykin, Bob Wall38m
Commandeer is a native desktop app that connects real cloud pieces — S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Glue crawlers, Athena, CloudWatch, SQS, Postgres (and planned…
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COVID-19 Impacts on the Food System and Food Security in Los Angeles CountyKayla Haye40m
A rapid LA County study uses a representative panel (≈1,800 respondents, tracked weekly) plus Yelp outlet data, cell‑phone mobility, Census and partner program…
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Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Security from a Business Lawyer's PerspectiveKathy Winger36m
Review of case law and enforcement shows companies of any size face liability and must act before, during and after breaches; the FTC applies a commercially…
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The Data Governance Effect: An exploration into the foundations and future of data collaborationSpencer Ward34m
Claims that COVID compresses five years of digital adoption into about eight weeks (McKinsey) and that analytics projects fail >75% of the time…
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Forget becoming a Data Scientist, become a Machine Learning Engineer insteadSujee Maniyam41m
Argues that becoming a machine learning engineer means taking models into production, not just exploring algorithms; recommends starting with Python and…
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Finding the Problem to Solve: Human-centered AIRaleigh Tomlinson37m
Advocates a UX-first claim: start by validating a user problem before building AI, then choose whether to augment decisions or automate predictable tasks…
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How Ranker Turned Pop Culture Lists Into Personalized TV RecommendationsVincent Seah, Keryu Ong38m
Ranker turns its 1B votes cast into a recommender that tackles cold‑start new TV shows by parsing users into synthetic split users and training multiple…
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How to turn traditional Industrial Companies into Modern, Digital-Data Driven CompaniesSugath Warnakulasuriya40m
A $2B industrial operator that owns and services 1,000,000 machines becomes digital by retrofitting cheap IoT feeds, using cloud APIs and Tableau dashboards to…
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How we solved for Aggregation, Search and Time Series Big Data usecases using Elasticsearch DatabaseAkbar Rangara37m
QuickBooks Online builds search, aggregation and time-series on Elasticsearch with Kafka for ingestion and AWS Elasticsearch as managed hosting, achieving 24…
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Tutorial - Intro to Data ScienceZia Khan04h 03m
Hands‑on build of a loan‑default classifier using a 614×13 CSV: code runs in Google Colab with pandas & scikit‑learn and matplotlib. Workflow: data import…
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Key Elements for a Successful Service Analytics ProgramSteve Rimar39m
Describes how a self‑service analytics program scales from a pilot to enterprise use with concrete numbers and tools including 500 developers 3000 applications…
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Machine Learning over Small Data: generating new variables with predictive powerLuis Valdeavellano40m
A demand model is built from 72 restaurants’ weekly sales by enriching coordinates with Google Places to create 336 generated variables across 21 categories…
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Become an data driven organization through unified metadata using ODPi EgeriaMandy Chessell40m
ODPi Egeria builds a distributed virtual graph that links metadata across existing tool repositories using lightweight connectors, replication plus federated…
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One Size Doesn't Fit All: How data can support tailored approaches in public healthEmily Conant29m
Nexleaf deploys Bluetooth temperature sensors and a StoveTrace dashboard to log cooking events and compare self-reports with objective use; a Nigeria pilot of…
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Money & Opportunities for Data Analysis Startups Post COVIDSid Mohasseb, John Harbison, Nader Fathi01h 29m
Post-COVID investors tighten valuations but keep deploying capital; angel group data shows medians rose pre-pandemic and surveys expect 10–30% valuation drops…
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Panel - Think in ColorMichelle Emelle, Ericka Odom, Lima Muhammad, Miesha Robinson, Linda Mejia, Tahnee Bedward, Lori Gray01h 25m
Panelists report concrete effects: people remove HBCU and cultural affiliations or change names and one panelist gets more interviews after using her middle…
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Panel - Women in Data ScienceKristianna Chung, Karla Guerra, Kerry Weinberg, Sonali Son, Stacey Ronaghan01h 27m
Panel summarizes concrete work and numbers: applying ML to EHR to predict two-year fracture risk using NLP-style next‑token models and active COVID outcome…
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Pulsar Functions Deep DiveDavid Kjerrumgaard36m
Pulsar Functions implements lightweight serverless stream processing on Apache Pulsar, running function instances as threads/processes/pods (including…
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Quantum Computing: The next new technology in computingMark Jackson41m
Claims that Google achieves Quantum Supremacy last year and that IBM doubles quantum volume yearly sit alongside hardware milestones: Honeywell reports quantum…
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Rapid Prototyping Data Platforms: A D4G Case Study with the Clean Air Coalition and partnersRonni Kimm, Eddie Park41m
A clickable dashboard prototype that automates aggregation and formatting of data from 200 PurpleAir sensors appears after a 10-day rapid sprint using…
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Realtime prediction of C-section risk for laboring mothersMatthew Wells38m
Cedars‑Sinai builds a real‑time C‑section risk pipeline that scores laboring mothers at admission and then updates real-time updates every 10 minutes using…
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Reframing intimate partner violence as a systemic economic issue using dataKirkley Doyle, Tannia Ventura40m
FreeFrom distributes 1,100 one‑time unrestricted cash grants (average $244) via PayPal, check or direct deposit and surveys 300 recipients across 36 states and…
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Stargate, the gateway for some multi-models data APICedrick Lunven38m
Stargate is a runtime proxy that exposes CRUD and GraphQL APIs plus CQL and a document API atop Cassandra (3.11, 4.0, DSE) so clients use HTTP/JSON instead of…
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The Emerging Role of a Data Product ManagerCindy Lin39m
HopSkipDrive hires a Data Product Manager to treat internal data as a product, reduce wasted time, and boost self‑service BI. Work starts with 24 interviews…
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Using AI to Build Fair and Equitable WorkplacesLawrence Spracklen, Sonya Balzer41m
A workforce analytics platform that mines digital communications with NLP and pretrained models (BERT, word embeddings) claims to score sentiment…
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Visualizing COVID-19 DataAlex Pudlin42m
City collects and centralizes fragmented county and municipal data into a daily briefing system that reaches the mayor and is publicly downloadable producing…
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What if a Robot Could Laugh at Your Jokes? (Laughter Prediction with Natural Language Processing)Andrew Jamieson33m
Transcripts total about 160,000 words and 5,500 laughs from Carlin and Chappelle across 19 hours, preprocessed into rolling groups of three sentences and…
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Why is your model stuck in the lab? How to move your model from the lab to productionJeff Moore39m
Models stall because alignment and change work are missing not because algorithms fail; eight of sixteen top obstacles are nontechnical. Process: start with…
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Saturday KeynotesKaren Borchgrevink, Jeanne Holm, Todd Terrazas, Karthik Ramasamy01h 26m
Panel covers four Data 4 Good pods that ran 12 interviews and logged 600+ volunteer hours to produce a research dossier, a 10-day design sprint prototype for a…
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Using Data to Empower Youth Program Participants at ChangeistManijeh Mahmoodzadeh38m
Changeist texts middle and high school participants multiple times per program day using Experience Sampling Method via text to capture momentary cognitive…
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The Future of Mars Exploration: A Tale of Perseverance and CuriosityAnita Sengupta38m
Mars 2020 Perseverance searches for ancient biosignatures while caching rock cores for a future Mars Sample Return, uses MOXIE to split atmospheric CO2 into…
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Secure Machine Learning: Overcoming Algorithmic Bias, Adversarial ML in the Wild West of AIHunter Carlisle39m
Timeline: deep nets unleashed in 2012 and real attacks appear by 2016 — Tay taken down after 16 hours is cited as a poisoning example and UW researchers show…
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Quantifying Genuine User Experience in Virtual Desktop EcosystemsWendy Howard33m
Measure round trip time <250ms and response times under 250ms, track per‑user bandwidth and break logon into initialization authentication profile policies so…
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Panel - Tips for Writing an Effective AI and Deep Learning BookChris Fregly, Jess Haberman, Dean Wampler, Rustem Feyzkhanov, Robert J Munro, Francesco Mosconi59m
Panel reports practical author choices: publishing route matters (self-publish boosts revenue, a major publisher supplies reviewers and marketing), many…
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Panel - Diversity in Data Organizations: Building a Representative Workforce and Why it MattersRebecca Friedman, Nicholas Haystings, Lindsay Poirier, Samta Kapoor, Vince Vu01h 26m
Panel argues that representative teams and documented data practices stop harm and improve outcomes and gives concrete steps and examples. Public policing data…
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Maximizing Impact of Analytics TeamsJai Bansal37m
Three broad problems: analytics used as a weapon, chronically low bandwidth, and company distrust. Practical fixes: focus on a few areas and prioritize…
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An integrated genomic surveillance platform reveals multiple introductions of SARS-CoV-2Lishuang Shen34m
A public genomic platform (CARD) collects >80,000 SARS‑CoV‑2 genomes and a Virus Genome Tracker that places any new sequence into global and USA phylogenies in…
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How to Leverage Marketing Analytics to Source Better TalentHarrison Tang41m
Spokeo adapts STP marketing and builds a talent analytics pipeline from raw ingestion, entity linking and standardized schemas to make hiring measurable…
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Enabling Data centric TeamsNawar Khabbaz39m
Argues that opening raw data and enabling domain teams to experiment shortens time to insight and lowers costs, with concrete tooling and patterns: JupyterHub…
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Delta for your Data: How to efficiently track and store deeply nested data changesSep Dehpour40m
DeepDiff claims a production-grade way to version nested data: 1.7 million monthly downloads, a new Delta/patch that applies to CSV JSON YAML and arbitrary…
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Data warehouse or conventional database: Which is right for you?Robert Hodges40m
Compares MySQL row store vs ClickHouse column store with concrete tradeoffs: MySQL uses a clustered B‑tree index, runs on a single server and easily supports…
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Data Privacy and Security by DesignLisa Rapp40m
Claims that three to five data points can reidentify over 80% of people and that privacy staffing has grown ~200% drive a pragmatic checklist: perform a full…
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Data Migration Lessons from the TrenchesNuri Halperin40m
Migration moves many MongoDB clusters (about 30 source databases with wire versions from 3.2 to 3.6) into Amazon DocumentDB and reveals concrete blockers…
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Approaches to online quantile estimationJoe Ross37m
Compares concrete streaming quantile data structures: Greenwald‑Khanna (ordered tuples with gi/delta compression), the KLL compactor hierarchy (randomized…
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Apache Druid 101Matt Sarrel39m
Apache Druid is a column-oriented, time-partitioned database that claims sub-millisecond to sub-second query times by ingesting streaming and batch data…
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Tutorial - Intro to KubernetesRob Richardson03h 23m
Hands‑on workshop that gets a local K8s cluster running via Docker Desktop Kubernetes mode (minikube and Azure demos included), builds images from Dockerfiles…
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Data Con LA 2020 - Friday KeynotesDimas Soeprapto, Subash DSouza, William Kehoe, Dr. Safiya Noble, Rebecca Ye, Peter Zaitsev, Dr. Jenny Rankin01h 01m
A county builds an information hub that merges health, housing, justice and social services into a master data management platform with a common anonymized…
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Application of Multi-class Supervised Algorithms to Identify COVID-19 Viral StrainsRishov Chatterjee33m
Applies DFT plus Shannon entropy to create a single magtropy feature from viral genomes, trains tree-based models (XGBoost, decision trees) with 10-fold CV and…
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Machine Learning applications in accessibilitySheri Byrne-Haber28m
VMware builds vA11y (code-named vli) to automate currently manual accessibility tests, pushing the 30% automated / 70% manual split toward 50/50 by end of…
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Self-Service ETL: The PowerBI Data FlowsDennes Torres40m
Live demo builds two data flows (Customer and Geography) then a merged CustomerGeo flow, using the portal Power Query editor and Power Query/M scripts moved…
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The End of User Authentication & the Coming Auto Authentication by the ServerDon Malloy20m
Claim: user-driven passwords and fragmented biometrics give way to auto authentication by the server and a self-sovereign authentication model where the server…
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CICD Pipeline and delivery of Apache Spark Applications on the cloud using AWSBabu Repaka, Maria Fung24m
Claims a working CI/CD for Apache Spark on AWS that cuts manual steps by automating build, test, integration and multi-account deployment. Pipeline uses…
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High-throughput cellular analytics to identify central nervous system targets for gene therapyHelen Poldsam24m
Pipeline uses single-cell RNA-seq on thousands to tens of thousands of cells, reduces ~20,000 genes to ~10–25 principal components, then clusters with a shared…
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Streaming Fast and SlowCaito Scherr38m
Practical guide to using metrics to shape streaming apps with Apache Flink and external reporters (Prometheus, Datadog). Emphasizes measuring watermarks…
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Digitization and change of FP&ARafi Wadan41m
Research analyzes ~75k job ads and finds FP&A roles remain ~2–3% of demand while transactional accounting is highly automatable; companies accelerate…
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Using a modern data stack to explore & visualize the impact of a global pandemic on airline trafficYasha Mouradi39m
A functioning ELT pipeline lands OpenSky state vectors every 30 seconds to S3, yields about 2.5 billion points since late 2018, and after a 50% cleanup groups…
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Unifying AnalyticsPaige Roberts35m
Claim: unify data lake and warehouse so BI and ML run on the same platform and avoid duplicate ETL. Implementation examples: Uber and The Trade Desk move raw…
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MySQL Without the SQL -- Oh My!Dave Stokes26m
Shows how to use X DevAPI over port 33060 to do CRUD on JSON collections, including transactions and generated _id handling; demonstrates a parallel bulk…
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The Power of Growth DataJennifer Aplin, Alice Chandrasekaran29m
Claims that 99.5% of collected data goes unused and that companies routinely sit on surprising reserves like $2M in stagnating qualified leads, with five…
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Data and the Future of Gaming Post COVIDKunny Berdow34m
Gaming usage spikes during COVID with mobile as the engine of growth — market revenue now nearly double film and music combined and platforms record 1.2…
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Getting Insights through Conversational Chatbots for AnalyticsAnand Ranganathan31m
A chat-based analytics platform demonstrates that nontechnical users can ask natural-language and voice questions, get auto-generated SQL and immediate map and…
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Powering Location Data for GoodKarisa Schroeder23m
ArcGIS Living Atlas surfaces ready maps and apps that tie real data to decisions: ArcGIS Living Atlas hosts the free app Indicators of the Planet that flags…
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Data Sharing for State and Local GovernmentNick Speece33m
Snowflake demonstrates live, permissioned real-time shares that let agencies query provider data without copying it, using AES-256 encryption, FedRAMP Moderate…
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Attributing real-world outcomes to sponsorshipsKarim Varela37m
Claims a platform that ties sponsorships to real outcomes by matching rights-holder PII, location and TV exposure, and transaction data via partners like…
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An Introduction to IoT (Internet of Toilets); Or How I Built an IoT Kitty Litter Box Using JSJoe Karlsson18m
Builds a working IoT smart kitty litter box that logs cat weights and visit timestamps using a Raspberry Pi, Johnny-Five for GPIO, a magnetic switch for…
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Automating Production Production Level Machine Learning on AWSMark McQuade32m
Framework named "model factory" claims to cut ML deployment from months to weeks by reducing 25+ manual steps to ~10 and automating promotion across…
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PySpark : Combining Machine Learning & Big DataAyon Roy35m
Shows how to fuse machine learning and big data by running PySpark pipelines and MLlib algorithms at scale, ingesting from sources like MongoDB and HDFS and…
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OpenDS4All: An open education project to accelerate the the development of data science curriculaAndre de Waal24m
An open curriculum kit of 15 modules on GitHub provides slides, instructor notes, code and data links under Apache 2.0 license and targets the full data…
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Modernizing the Analytics and Data Science Lifecycle for the Scalable Enterprise: The SEAL MethodJeff Bertman43m
Introduces SEAL as a CRISP-DM upgrade that adds SLAs, iterative feedback loops, and continual improvement so models survive enterprise scale and multi‑cloud…
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Management of Data CommunitiesJerry Power, Ryan Kurtzman44m
Long Beach uses an internal data‑sharing administrative rule plus an Open Lattice deployment to run the Justice Lab that links health, police and fire records…
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Tutorial - Intro to Data EngineeringAbraham Elmahrek03h 08m
Hands-on intro that actually builds things: attendees import a VM image datacon la2020 into VirtualBox, use Python + Spark labs to run pip installs (requests)…
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Data Lakes with Azure DatabricksDustin Vannoy36m
Shows how to build a data lake on Azure using Azure Databricks + ADLS Gen2 and Event Hubs for Kafka with concrete code: an external table over CSV, convert to…
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Moral Responsibility of Data Professionals - WhistleblowingRyan Lee41m
Data professionals have concrete duties: know every data source and pipeline, enforce change management, access governance and incident response, and get…
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