Sep 23–26, 2019

Michael Cullan
Data Scientist in Residence, Pragmatic Institute

Michael Cullan is a data scientist in residence at Pragmatic Institute, where he teaches hands-on courses in data science and business-oriented topics in managing data science initiatives at the organizational level. He also leads internal data science projects in support of marketing and operations teams. He earned a master’s degree in statistics and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. His academic research areas ranged from computational paleobiology, where he developed software for measuring evidence for disparate evolutionary models based on fossil data, to music and AI, where he assisted in modeling musical data for a jazz improvisation robot. In his free time, he applies his math and programming skills toward creating code-based visual art and design projects.

Sessions

9:00am - 5:00pm Monday, September 23 & Tuesday, September 24

Location: 1A 15/16

Hands-on data science with Python

Data Science, Machine Learning, & AI

Secondary topics: Deep dive into specific tools, platforms, or frameworks

Michael Cullan (Pragmatic Institute)

Michael Cullan walks you through developing a machine learning pipeline from prototyping to production. You'll learn about data cleaning, feature engineering, model building and evaluation, and deployment and then extend these models into two applications from real-world datasets. All work will be done in Python. Read more.

Location: 1A 15/16