Introducing The DataHour Series – Webinars with Industry Leaders

Introduction

The word community has become a buzzword across the globe. Businesses have realized the power of community-led growth and are heavily invested in building and continuously giving to the audience. Well..guess what? At Analytics Vidhya, the community has been at the forefront since its inception with aim of building the best AI ML ecosystem any company can offer.

With a Leading community knowledge portal, our ecosystem is magnifying at a 3x speed. Keeping the community in mind, we are happy to announce that we have launched a webinar series: The DataHour. The webinars will be led by top industry leaders which will help us to enable deeper discussions and conversations with our cherished community.

Highlights

Below are various highlights of the webinar series

• Lead by Top Industry Leaders
• Duration: 60 to 80 mins
• Learn Tools and Techniques in the Data Science Domain
• Hands-on Learning
• Free to Attend
• Recordings will be available later

Our webinar series: The DataHour is definitely going to be a fun way to understand the concepts of Data Science from the Leading Players in the Data Science domain. We are hopeful that these webinar sessions are going to be a great source of enrichment and value-adding for our community members.

Upcoming Webinars: The DataHour

We are enthralled to share that we have two upcoming webinars in the month of February 2022.

• 15th Feb 2022: An overview of Feature Engineering for Data Science 
• 22nd Feb 2022: Hands-on Workshop on Feature Engineering
• 25th Feb: Lessons Learned from Hundreds of Machine Learning Projects

About the Webinars

• In the 1st webinar, we will discuss advanced feature engineering techniques, best practices for ensuring these techniques work in a production environment, and finally, share a repository of more advanced feature engineering techniques.
• In the 2nd second webinar, there is going to be a hands-on workshop in which we’ll walk through the feature engineering process for a modeling problem. We’ll apply advanced feature engineering techniques to a set of transactions to show how they can build a complex picture of behavior over time.
• In the 3rd webinar, we will share some important lessons while working and managing data science projects. We will describe how to combine research & execution, how to scale experimentation, reduce the need of labeled data, share features, handle privacy, etc.

Speaker Profiles

1. An overview of Feature Engineering for Data Science  and Hands-on Workshop on Feature Engineering

   Andrew Engel,
   Chief Data Scientist at Rasgo

   Andrew Engel is the Chief Data Scientist at Rasgo. He has been working as a data scientist and leading teams of data scientists for over ten years in a wide variety of domains from fraud prediction to marketing analytics.

   Andrew received his Ph.D. in Systems and Industrial Engineering with a focus on optimization and stochastic modeling. He has worked for Towson University, SAS Institute, the US Navy, Websense (now ForcePoint), Stics, HP and led DataRobot’s efforts in Entertainment, Sports, and Gaming before joining Rasgo in August of 2020. He will be taking both the webinars.

2. Lessons Learned from Hundreds of Machine Learning Projects

   Prashant K Dhingra,
   Managing Director(Machine Learning), JPMorgan Chase
   

   Prashant K Dhingra is the Managing Director for Machine Learning at JP Morgan Chase. Since 2008 he has worked on a variety of ML models and has a good experience of 28 years. Prior to JPMC, he had worked at Google and Microsoft. At Google, he was the Head of Machine Learning for Manufacturing and Industry. At Microsoft, he worked on Azure ML, Bing, and the SQL Server team. Prashant has also written a book on SQL Server and a chapter on ML in an NOAA book.

If you wish to conduct a webinar, connect with us at [email protected].

EndNotes

We hope that you’re as excited as we are! We have conducted two webinars until now and received a great response from our attendees.

Looking forward to seeing you all in our upcoming webinar sessions!

Sakshi Raheja

I am a passionate writer and avid reader who finds joy in weaving stories through the lens of data analytics and visualization. With a knack for blending creativity with numbers, I transform complex datasets into compelling narratives. Whether it's writing insightful blogs or crafting visual stories from data, I navigate both worlds with ease and enthusiasm. 

A lover of both chai and coffee, I believe the right brew sparks creativity and sharpens focus—fueling my journey in the ever-evolving field of analytics. For me, every dataset holds a story, and I am always on a quest to uncover it.