Deep Learning Adventures welcomes Dan Becker, Rachael Tatman and Ryan Holbrook

Published: 27 January 2021
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Time to complete our Kaggle courses adventure with an amazing event 🎉
For the last 4 months we have:
• learned a lot
• gained new skills
• participated in forums and competitions
• made some new friends along the way from around the country 🌎 and around the world 🌍
• and most importantly supported each other
• while having fun 🥳

Deep Learning Adventures welcomes Dan Becker, Rachael Tatman and Ryan Holbrook for a chat, get to know each other better, share some feedback on this great resource and discuss a bit about some cool projects they are currently working on.

Presentation slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/...

Agenda, all times are in EST:
• 7:00pm Introductions and get to know our community
• 7:10pm Your experience at Kaggle and putting together your Kaggle courses. Future plans for Kaggle Learn.
• 7:20pm What cool projects are you currently working on?
• 7:40pm What advice would you give to 2 different members, data science beginners vs experienced practitioners in improving their skills
•What about someone looking to make a difference in the world?
• 8pm What advice would you give to someone who is making a career change in data science? What about an experienced data scientist looking for a new role?
• 8:15pm Open floor for questions and comments
• 8:30pm Thank you for joining us

Panelist information and background
Dan Becker
Founder of Decision AI
  / dansbecker  
• Founded Kaggle Learn, a data science training platform used by over 40k users each month
• Contributed to the Keras and Tensorflow libraries for deep learning
• Finished 2nd (out of 1353 teams) in the $3million Heritage Health Prize data mining competition
• Supervised data science consulting projects for 6 companies in the Fortune 100.

Rachael Tatman
Senior Developer Advocate at Rasa
  / rachael-tatman-500a323a  
Some more information about Rachael based on her website: http://www.rctatman.com
• Rachael is a developer advocate for Rasa, where she is helping developers build and deploy conversational AI applications using Rasa's open source framework.
• She has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Washington. Her research was on computational sociolinguistics, or how our social identity affects the way we use language in computational contexts.
• Previously she was a data scientist at Kaggle and is still a Grandmaster.
• Rachael has an active streaming schedule available at: http://www.rctatman.com

Ryan Holbrook
Data Scientist at Kaggle
  / ryan-holbrook-98b49a175  
• Ryan is an AI educator on the Kaggle Learn team
• His courses cover Intro to Deep Learning and Computer Vision
• Ryan is a great supporter and very active on our Kaggle forums

George Zoto
Senior Data Scientist at Share Our Strength | No Kid Hungry
Founder and Co-organizer of Deep Learning Adventures, a fun and engaging online community covering interesting topics in data science, machine learning and deep learning: https://www.meetup.com/Deep-Learning-...
  / george-zoto  

Robert Kraig
Data Scientist with expertise in modeling and analysis
Adjunct Professor of Data Analytics at George Mason University
Co-founder and Co-organizer of Deep Learning Adventures
Freelancer pianist on Classical, Jazz and Swing music
  / rkraig  

David Patton
Data Scientist at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and A3.ai
Full-stack Data Scientist experienced with deep multilayer perceptron networks (MLP), convolutional neural networks (CNN), recurrent neural networks (RNN), long short-term memory networks (LSTM), and NLP models. Industry experience in scientific research, image/video processing, financial services.
Co-founder and Co-organizer of Deep Learning Adventures
  / patton  


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