Sep 23–26, 2019

Claudiu Branzan
Analytics Senior Manager, Accenture

Claudiu Branzan is an analytics senior manager in the Applied Intelligence Group at Accenture, based in Seattle, where he leverages his more than 10 years of expertise in data science, machine learning, and AI to promote the use and benefits of these technologies to build smarter solutions to complex problems. Previously, Claudiu held highly technical client-facing leadership roles in companies using big data and advanced analytics to offer solutions for clients in healthcare, high-tech, telecom, and payments verticals.

Sessions

1:30pm–5:00pm Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Location: 1A 23/24

Natural language understanding at scale with Spark NLP

Data Science, Machine Learning, & AI

Secondary topics: Deep dive into specific tools, platforms, or frameworks, Text and Language processing and analysis

David Talby (Pacific AI), Alex Thomas (John Snow Labs), Saif Addin Ellafi (John Snow Labs), Claudiu Branzan (Accenture)

David Talby, Alex Thomas, Saif Addin Ellafi, and Claudiu Branzan walk you through state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) using the highly performant, highly scalable open source Spark NLP library. You'll spend about half your time coding as you work through four sections, each with an end-to-end working codebase that you can change and improve. Read more.