Kaggle Days Meetups are a series of events all over the world, created
by Kaggle and LogicAI, that aim to gather Kagglers and people
interested in Data Science around one city.Join the Kaggle Days Meetup
for an evening of food, networking, and discussion, followed by a
presentation by Dr. Benjamin Bengfort, Chief Data Scientist of
PingThings.Agenda:6:00 - Doors open. Food & drinks will be served
compliments of Stardog
6:25 - General intro
6:30 – Presentation*
7:15 - Q&A + Social
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Talk Abstract:
We live in an age of deep fakes and Go-playing AI that prompts a
significant question: can we create a computational method for
creativity? The philosophical impacts of such an answer aside, it
seems that AI can at least enhance the creative endeavors of humans
and deep learning has been used in many artistic endeavors from music
to live performance. In this talk, we'll dive into some of the
specific methodologies used such as deep dream for creating
psychedelic pictures and magenta for generating music. We'll also take
a look at non-DLN methods such as evolutionary and genetic algorithms.
Hopefully, at the end of this talk, you will be inspired to train
models to create artwork of your own!
About the Speaker:
Dr. Benjamin Bengfort is the Chief Data Scientist at PingThings, Inc.
in Washington D.C., where he spends his days applying deep neural
learning to synchrophasor sensor data in an effort to improve the
efficiency and safety of the electric grid. On nights and weekends he
can be found working on Yellowbrick — an open source Python package
for machine learning diagnostics and interpretation. He's also the
author of several books on machine learning including Applied Text
Analysis in Python and Data Analytics with Hadoop. Dr. Bengfort earned
his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and is
also adjunct faculty at Georgetown University where he teaches new
data scientists how to integrate machine learning into their work. If
he can sneak away from his computer and the classroom for a few hours,
you’re likely to find him in his woodshop or manning the smoker at
the neighborhood barbecue (where he'd stake his brisket against an AI
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