12-03, 19:00–20:30 (UTC), Talk Track II
Lightning Talks are short 5-10 minute sessions presented by community members on a variety of interesting topics.
Order of Presentations
1. Life, Death, and Shopping by Dina Bavli
2. Everybody Is an Influencer– Which Influencer Are You? by Dina Bavli
3. Geometry for Social Good by Colleen M. Farrelly
4. Build a web app in Python with Dash by David Chapuis
No previous knowledge expected
Dina Bavli is a Data Scientist with experience in NLP, Graph theory, NetworkX, churn prediction, and a growing interest in ASR (automated speech recognition).
Her Master's thesis deals with classifying and characterizing persuasion. She is a former teaching assistant for ML and an international public speaker.
She is a data science content writer for workshops, meetups, and online courses, and an official author of the Towards Data Science and Better Programming publications.
Dina is passionate about data, sharing knowledge, and contributing to society. Whenever she can't find a sufficient tutorial, she creates one.
Colleen M. Farrelly is a senior data scientist/machine learning scientist whose expertise spans NLP, TDA/geometry-based methods, time series analytics, and social network analytics. Her book, The Shape of Data, is slated for release in 2023 (https://nostarch.com/shapeofdata). She's passionate about African data science and social good initiatives.
Freelance Python developer / data analyst
Works in Python, JavaScript, French, English, Spanish and Portuguese
Baker and meditation instructor in a previous life