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STL Lecture April 2019

Access the recording and presentation from the lecture under "Agenda".

Abstract:
Phil and his Salesforce colleagues, Sonke Rohde and Steven Tamm, shared cutting-edge ML research as applied to hyper-personalized commerce and enterprise systems. They peeled under the cover of the successful Salesforce "platform" as a triumph of the monolith as a system engineering pattern. He provided an honest assessment of how a silicon valley company approaches innovation while balancing customer demands and diverse ethical concerns around the world.

WiDS 2019
January 29 - February 27, 2019

The 2nd Annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) Datathon has begun! We invite you to join us in this predictive analytics competition focused on social impact.

This year, the Global WiDS team, the West Big Data Innovation Hub, and the WiDS Datathon Committee have partnered with Planet and Figure Eight to bring more than 20,000 labeled satellite images to participants. The WiDS Datathon challenge using Kaggle’s online platform is to create a model that predicts the presence of oil palm plantations. Read more in this Ready, Set, Go! The WiDS 2019 Datathon article.