Archive for the ‘Meetups’ Category

Techniques and Technologies: Topology and TensorFlow

In early December we hosted a meetup, featuring Dr. Alli Gilmore discussing topological data analysis, and Dr. Andrew Zaldivar covering practical usage of Tensorflow.

Scaling Data Science: Dream Big, Start Medium-ish

On July 13th we welcomed the Open Data Science Conference meetup series to our HQ—our speaker talked about thinking critically about the size of your data.

Talking About the Caltrain

On May 6th, SVDS hosted an Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) Meetup in our Mountain View headquarters. Data Engineer Harrison Mebane and Data Scientist Christian Perez presented on our Caltrain project.

Working Effectively in Data Science Teams

On April 21st, SVDS hosted the WWCode Silicon Valley chapter in our Mountain View office; we gave a talk titled Working Effectively in Data Science Teams.

Advanced Spark Meetup Recap

Our audience of engineers got right into the guts of Spark’s GraySort benchmark win last year with Chris Fregly from IBM Spark Technology Center. Here are a few highlights from the meetup.