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Data Science MS
Kirsten Keihl, Assistant Director
Our weekly Seminar Series in Data Science has over 7,000 members and attracts speakers and attendees from top Bay Area companies.
Introduction to Portfolio Analysis & Management
Alfonso Portillo: Portfolio Manager and Managing Director at Charles Schwab and Former VP, PIMCO
Loyalty Marketing – A Casino Gaming Perspective
Jonathan Lowenhar: Former Corporate Vice President of Loyalty Marketing, Co-founder and Former CEO, Harrah's, Trooval
Current Problems and Opportunities in IT for Big Data Experts
Xavier Quintuna: Big Data & Platform, France Telecom
Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Losses Following Environmental Disaster
Jesse Anttila-Hughes: Assistant Professor of Applied Econometrics, University of San Francisco's Department of Economics
Analytics in Politics: The Many Ways Numbers can Shape a Campaign
David Latterman: Principal of Fall Line Analytics, Political Analyst
Financial Crime Counter Measures With Maths
Graham Bailey: Senior Vice President, AML Detection and Data Wells Fargo Bank
The Analytics of Designing Software Products
Kevin Hale: Senior Product Manager, SurveyMonkey
Using Big Data analytics for Improving On-Line Games
Andreas Vogel: VP Global Business Incubator, SAP
Using Visualization to Understand What Makes City Streets Successful
Eric Fischer: Artist in Residence, Exploratorium
The Revolution of In-Memory and Realtime Analytics - Rationale and Case Study
Denis Descause: Global Business Development Lead, SAP
Does Statistics Still Have a Role in Big Data?
Norm Matloff: Professor of Computer Science, UC Davis
Dude, Where's My Alpha?
Steven Pav: Quantitative Strategist, Cerebellum Capital, LLC
Business Case for Machine Learning: Algorithms and Use Cases
Michael Bowles: Instructor, Hacker Dojo
YouTube and the Role of a Data Scientist
Sundar Dorai-Raj: Senior Quantitative Analyst, Google
Data Science at 2 Billion Hits Per Day
Mike Brzustowicz: Data Scientist, Kontagent
The Art of the Data Mash-Up
Jed Kolko: Chief Economist and Head of Trulia
Engaging Audiences with Data Visualization
Scott Murray: Assistant Professor of Design, University of San Francisco
Logistic Regression vs Naive Bayes: Hierarchical Approaches to Risk Prediction
Brian Lucena: Interim SVP of Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation
Platform Analytics at Twitter
Aaron Siegel: Managing a Platform Analytics Team, Twitter
The Data Side of Big Data: Crowdsourcing Content and Smart Systems
Shane Lewin: Managing a Data Science and Engineering Team, Netflix
Probability Paradoxes IRL
Alon Amit: Co-founder and VP of Product, Origami Logic
Unleashing Data in the Public Sector
Jonathan Reichental: Award-winning Chief Information Officer (CIO), City of Palo Alto
Social Selling: Conversation Mining
Michael Osofsky: Chief Innovation Officer and Co-Founder, NetBase
Business Analytics at SaaS Company
Jill Zheng: Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst, SurveyMonkey
Data Science for Sustainability
Matthew Dixon: Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco
(Im)Practical Data analytics
Bradley Voytek: : Professor of Computational Cognitive Science and Neuroscience, Data Evangelist, UC San Diego, Uber Inc.
The Art of Social Data
Andreas Weigend: Founder, Social Data Lab
LogicBlox - Declarative Programming for the Cloud
T.J. Green: Computer Scientist, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, LogicBlox, University of California, Davis
Computational Analytics in Forensic Genetics
Jianye Ge: Senior Staff Algorithm Engineer, Life Technologies
Reporting Can Be Sexy,
Dan Voorhies: Director of Trulia
Data, Data, Everywhere...and Not a Byte for Me
Kord Davis: Digital strategist, author, speaker, and facilitator
Shape and Meaning: An Introduction to Topological Data Analysis
Anthony Bak: Senior Data Scientist and Mathematician, Ayasdi
Large Scale Integration of Disparate and Disconnected Data in Life Sciences
Sven Junkergard: Director of Technology, Zephyr Health Inc.
Challenges for Machine Learning in Computational Sustainability
Thomas G. Dietterich: Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Oregon State University
Convergence of Big Data, Analytics, and Marketing - Staying on the Bleeding Edge
Jarvis Mak: SVP Customer Success, Rocket Fuel
Teaching Computers to Think like Decision Makers
Mark Zangari: Co-founder and CEO , Quantellia
Advanced Analytics in Government - Current Uses and Trends
Denise Callahan: President and Principal Consultant, TAP International
Privacy in Statistical Databases
Kunal Talwar: Senior Researcher, Microsoft
Solving Social Impact Challenges with Data Science
Paul Duan: Chief Scientist, Bayes Impact
Parking Spot Real-time Prediction at Parknav
Eyal Amir: CEO, Parknav
YouTube Data Science with Application
Sudar Dorai-Raj: Senior Quantitative Analyst, Google
Designing a Predictive Churn Model for a Private Club
Thomas Maier: Associate Professor of Hospitality Management, University of San Francisco
Veritable - A Predictive Database
Fritz Obermeyer: Engine Development, Veritable, Salesforce.com
Data Science Use Cases at StumbleUpon
Debora Donato: Senior Director, StumbleUpon
Label Partitioning for Sublinear Ranking
Hector Yee: Software Engineer, Airbnb
Do-not-track and the Economics of Third Party Advertising
Sharad Goel: Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford
Empowering Rapid Data Science
Jake Quist: CEO, Zillabyte
Situating Data Science in the Process
Chris Diehl: Co-founder, The Data Guild
Kirsten Keihl, Assistant Director