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##The eighth edition of The Fifth Elephant will be held in Bangalore on 25 and 26 July. A thousand data scientists, ML engineers, data engineers and analysts will gather at the NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bangalore to discuss:

  1. Model management, including data cleaning, instrumentation and productionizing data science.
  2. Bad data and case studies of failure in building data products.
  3. Identifying and handling fraud + data security at scale
  4. Applications of data science in agriculture, media and marketing, supply chain, geo-location, SaaS and e-commerce.
  5. Feature engineering and ML platforms.
  6. What it takes to create data-driven cultures in organizations of different scales.

##Highlights:

1. Meet Peter Wang, co-founder of Anaconda Inc, and learn about why data privacy is the first step towards robust data management; the journey of building Anaconda; and Anaconda in enterprise.
2. Talk to the Fulfillment and Supply Group (FSG) team from Flipkart, and learn about their work with platform engineering where ground truths are the source of data.
3. Attend tutorials on Deep Learning with RedisAI; TransmorgifyAI, Salesforce’s open source AutoML.
4. Discuss interesting problems to solve with data science in agriculture, SaaS perspective on multi-tenancy in Machine Learning (with the Freshworks team), bias in intent classification and recommendations.
5. Meet data science, data engineering and product teams from sponsoring companies to understand how they are handling data and leveraging intelligence from data to solve interesting problems.

##Why you should attend?

  1. Network with peers and practitioners from the data ecosystem
  2. Share approaches to solving expensive problems such as cleanliness of training data, model management and versioning data
  3. Demo your ideas in the demo session
  4. Join Birds of Feather (BOF) sessions to have productive discussions on focussed topics. Or, start your own Birds of Feather (BOF) session.

##Full schedule published here: https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/2019/schedule

##Contact details:
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JSFoo:VueDay 2019 sponsors:

#Platinum Sponsor

Anatta

#Community Sponsors

Salesforce Ericsson freshworks
databricks

#Exhibition Sponsors

Sapient Atlassian GO-JEK
Bayer

#Bronze Sponsor

Sumologic Walmart Labs Atlan
Simpl Great Learning

#Community Sponsors

Elastic Anaconda Aruba Networks

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The Fifth Elephant - known as one of the best data science and Machine Learning conference in Asia - has transitioned into a year-round forum for conversations about data and ML engineering; data science in production; data security and privacy practices. more

Jaidev Deshpande

@jaidevd

Automating Workflows for AI Projects

Submitted Apr 21, 2019

As technology gets cheaper and more available, we start taking it for granted. It’s easier than ever before to perform fairly exciting AI tasks with as little as tens of lines of code. As data grows, our approach to ML problems often, and understandably, becomes haphazard. As GPUs become more widely available, we subconsciously think that throwing enough artificial neurons at a problem will eventually solve it. Whether this will actually solve a problem or not, it is not uncommon for data scientists to realize - unfortunately only in hindsight - that most of the iterations required to build a successful model were unnecessary. Ironically, these ‘missteps’ are essential to finding the right solution. Solving an ML problem is like traversing a minefield where the safest path can only be determined by blowing up a lot of mines. We can only find the solution by making mistakes. Unfortunately, this ‘see what sticks’ approach cannot be completely avoided. However it can be curbed significantly, with a structured approach to running machine learning experiments. This structured approach - its theory and practice, its design principles and its software implementation - is what this talk is about.

Outline

This talk is inspired, in part, by Peter Bull & Isaac Slavitt’s SciPy 2016 tutorial on Developer Lifehacks for the Jupyter Data Scientist. Bull & Slavitt’s tutorial is a result of their effort towards trying to bring best practices from software engineering to data science. In the same spirit, this talk expands on this idea by:

  1. Putting together best practices to design workflows - not only for data scientists who spend a lot of time in Jupyter notebooks, but also for engineers and software development teams who work on end-to-end AI projects.
  2. Examining how and which of these practices can be automated.
  3. Showcasing open source solutions that enables data scientists to implement workflows - mostly without leaving the comfort of their existing development environments.

Most ML problems are, by design, highly iterative. Therefore they can, at least in theory, be automated. However, the lack of a structured workflow prevents us from exploiting the redundancies in ML practice. The ideal way of managing machine learning experiments is with a lab journal. Each machine learning experiment can be reasonably characterized by a hypothesis, a procedure and finally drawing inferences from it’s results. A well kept journal would help practitioners avoid repeating mistakes, and narrowing down to the right approach.

This talk will introduce Kepler, a fully open-source framework for managing ML experiments. Kepler is written in Python, and optimized for deep learning experiments. It runs sanity checks on models and data which enforce the idea that training models should not begin until the model is sane enough, and the data is properly prepared. It enforces the DRY principle by keeping track of performance metrics across multiple experiments. It allows users to log experiments carried out on sklearn estimators and keras models. It also behaves like a hyperparameter grid manager, which alerts the user if the user accidentally re-runs the same experiment on the same data with the same parameters. It has some meta-learning features which allow for an end-to-end approach to machine learning problems. Ultimately, it provides a searchable interface for all projects, models and experiments under its umbrella - facilitating the design and automation of efficient ML workflows.

Speaker bio

Jaidev is senior data scientist at Gramener, where he work on building products for other data scientists. His interests lie at the intersection of data science, software engineering and continuous integration. He’s an active contributor to the scientific Python stack, and loves to apply machine learning and analytics to personal productivity. You’re likely to run into him at FOSS community events.

Slides

https://www.slideshare.net/secret/v4avVPIvzK64G5

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Make a submission

Accepting submissions till 15 Jun 2019, 01:00 PM

NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru

Hosted by

The Fifth Elephant - known as one of the best data science and Machine Learning conference in Asia - has transitioned into a year-round forum for conversations about data and ML engineering; data science in production; data security and privacy practices. more