Presented By
O’Reilly + Cloudera
Make Data Work
March 25-28, 2019
San Francisco, CA
Ted Dunning

Ted Dunning
Chief Technology Officer, MapR, now part of HPE

Website | @ted_dunning

Ted Dunning is the chief technology officer at MapR, an HPE company. He’s also a board member for the Apache Software Foundation, a PMC member, and committer on a number of projects. Ted has years of experience with machine learning and other big data solutions across a range of sectors. He’s contributed to clustering, classification, and matrix decomposition algorithms in Mahout and to the new Mahout Math library and designed the t-digest algorithm used in several open source projects and by a variety of companies. Previously, Ted was chief architect behind the MusicMatch (now Yahoo Music) and Veoh recommendation systems and built fraud-detection systems for ID Analytics (LifeLock). Ted has coauthored a number of books on big data topics, including several published by O’Reilly related to machine learning, and has 24 issued patents to date plus a dozen pending. He holds a PhD in computing science from the University of Sheffield. When he’s not doing data science, he plays guitar and mandolin. He also bought the beer at the first Hadoop user group meeting.

Sessions

2:40pm–3:20pm Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Online evaluation of machine learning models
Data Science, Machine Learning & AI
 Location: 2011
Secondary topics:  Model lifecycle management
Ted Dunning (MapR, now part of HPE)
Average rating: ****.
(4.70, 10 ratings)
Evaluating machine learning models is surprisingly hard, particularly because these systems interact in very subtle ways. Ted Dunning breaks the problem of evaluation apart into operational and function evaluation, demonstrating how to do each without unnecessary pain and suffering. Along the way, he shares exciting visualization techniques that will help make differences strikingly apparent. Read more.