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The official Jupyter Conference
August 22-23, 2017: Training
August 23-25, 2017: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Paco Nathan

Paco Nathan
Evil Mad Scientist, derwen.ai

Website | @pacoid

Paco Nathan is known as a “player/coach” with core expertise in data science, natural language processing, machine learning, and cloud computing. He has 35+ years of experience in the tech industry, at companies ranging from Bell Labs to early-stage startups. His recent roles include director of the Learning Group at O’Reilly and director of community evangelism at Databricks and Apache Spark. Paco is the cochair of Rev conference and an advisor for Amplify Partners, Deep Learning Analytics, Recognai, and Primer. He was named one of the "top 30 people in big data and analytics" in 2015 by Innovation Enterprise.

Sessions

2:40pm–3:20pm Thursday, August 24, 2017
Meet the Expert with Paco Nathan (O'Reilly Media)
Location: O'Reilly Booth - Table 1
Paco Nathan (derwen.ai)
Paco will be available to discuss using Jupyter notebooks in media for publishing computable content and coaching authors to be more effective with Jupyter notebooks and machine learning pipelines managed using Jupyter notebooks for active learning and human-in-the-loop design patterns. Read more.
4:10pm–4:50pm Thursday, August 24, 2017
Humans in the loop: Jupyter notebooks as a frontend for AI pipelines at scale
Usage and application
 Location: Sutton Center/Sutton South Level: Intermediate
Paco Nathan (derwen.ai)
Paco Nathan reviews use cases where Jupyter provides a frontend to AI as the means for keeping humans in the loop. This process enhances the feedback loop between people and machines, and the end result is that a smaller group of people can handle a wider range of responsibilities for building and maintaining a complex system of automation. Read more.