Schedule: Media, Advertising, Entertainment sessions

In the era of 24-hour news and online newspapers, editors in the newsroom must quickly and efficiently make sense of the enormous amounts of data that they encounter and make decisions about their content. Daniel Gilbert and Jonathan Leslie discuss an ongoing partnership between News UK and Pivigo in which a team of data science trainees helped develop an AI platform to assist in this task. Read more.

Naver.com is the largest search engine in Korea, with a 70% share of the Korean search market, and it handles billions of pages and events everyday. Jason Heo and Dooyong Kim offer an overview of Naver's web analytics system, built with Druid. Read more.

An increasing number of ex-Google and ex-Facebook employees state that social media is starting to control us rather than the other way around. How can we determine if social media is a pure reflection of people's interests or if it pushes us toward specific narratives? Guillaume Chaslot explores methodologies to find out which narratives are favored by social media recommendation engines. Read more.

In the last few years, deep learning has achieved significant success in a wide range of domains, including computer vision, artificial intelligence, speech, NLP, and reinforcement learning. However, deep learning in recommender systems has, until recently, received relatively little attention. Nick Pentreath explores recent advances in this area in both research and practice. Read more.

There is a pressing need to design new algorithms that are socially responsible in how they learn and socially optimal in the manner in which they use information. Elisa Celis explores the emergence of bias in algorithmic decision making and presents first steps toward developing a systematic framework to control biases in classical problems, such as data summarization and personalization. Read more.

Aggregation of geospecific real estate databases results in duplicate entries for properties located near geographical boundaries. Sergey Ermolin and Olga Ermolin detail an approach for identifying duplicate entries via the analysis of images that accompany real estate listings that leverages a transfer learning Siamese architecture based on VGG-16 CNN topology. Read more.

Irene Gonzálvez shares Spotify's process for ensuring data quality, covering why and how the company became aware of its importance, the products it has developed, and future strategy. Read more.

Having trouble coordinating development of your production ML system between a team of developers? Microservices drifting and causing problems debugging? Kinnary Jangla explains how Pinterest dockerized the services powering its home feed and how it impacted the engineering productivity of its ML teams while increasing uptime and ease of deployment. Read more.