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Make Data Work
March 5–6, 2018: Training
March 6–8, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA

Ask Me Anything: Big data and machine learning techniques to drive and grow business

Burcu Baran (LinkedIn), Wei Di (LinkedIn)
11:00am–11:40am Thursday, March 8, 2018
Ask Me Anything
 Location: 212 A-B

Join Burcu Baran and Wei Di to discuss big data in business analytics, machine learning in business analytics, and achieving actionable insights from big data. Bring your questions about the big data analytics lifecycle, state-of-the-art techniques to drive and grow business, how to leverage advanced analytics and machine learning techniques such as predictive modeling to drive and grow business, and working with and empowering business partners and optimizing business performance through data.

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Burcu Baran

LinkedIn

Burcu Baran is a senior data scientist at LinkedIn. Burcu is passionate about bringing mathematical solutions to business problems using machine learning techniques. Previously, she worked on predicting modeling at a B2B business intelligence company and was a postdoc in the Mathematics Departments at both Stanford and the University of Michigan. Burcu holds a PhD in number theory.

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Wei Di

LinkedIn

Wei Di is a staff member on LinkedIn’s business analytics data mining team. Wei is passionate about creating smart and scalable solutions that can impact millions of individuals and empower successful business. She has wide interests covering artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision. Previously, Wei worked with eBay Human Language Technology and eBay Research Labs, where she focused on large-scale image understanding and joint learning from visual and text information, and worked at Ancestry.com in the areas of record linkage and search relevance. Wei holds a PhD from Purdue University.