Back

Speaker "Victor Amin" Details Back

 

Topic

How Data Latency Kills Creativity (and What You Can Do About It)

Abstract

Creativity probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about data science. However, the best data science is about creating something totally new with data, learning something that no one else knew before. If you’re not creating, you’re not maximizing the value of your data, and you’re not realizing the value of data science as a discipline everyone should be investing in. The biggest barrier to creativity in data science is data latency, a problem which has only gotten worse since the advent of Big Data. In this talk, I will prove why data latency is so harmful to data professionals, and then provide you with 6 ways you can reduce data latency in your own work.

Profile

Victor is a Data Scientist at SendGrid, the world's first cloud based email platform. SendGrid delivers over a billion emails per day and generates petabytes of data each year. At SendGrid, Victor manages data science products that enhance email deliverability, stop spam, phish, and other abuse, and generally help important messages get to where they’re going. He’s currently thinking a lot about aha moments. After graduating cum laude from Princeton University, Victor founded an Internet security company, and later went on to publish on statistical genetics as a bioinformatician at the University of Florida. Victor holds a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Northwestern University, where he studied quantum confinement and applications of machine learning to small molecule discovery.