Hands-On Tutorials

Title Organizers

Hands-On: Building Recommender Systems using Photon ML
Monday, August 15 - 9:00am to 12:00pm (Market - Parc 55)
 
Xianxing Zhang (LinkedIn)
Deepak Agarwal (LinkedIn)
Bee-Chung Chen (LinkedIn)
Paul Ogilvie (LinkedIn)

Hands-On: Big Natural Language Data Processing
Monday, August 15 - 9:00am to 12:00pm (Embarcadero - Parc 55)
 
Gabor Melli (OpenGov, Inc.)
Matt Seal (OpenGov, Inc.)

Hands-On: MXNet
Monday, August 15 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm (Market - Parc 55)
 
Mu Li (CMU)
Tianqi Chen (UW)

Hands-On: Introduction to Spark 2.0
Monday, August 15 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm (Embarcadero - Parc 55)
 
Michael Armbrust (Databricks)
Doug Bateman (Databricks)
Reynold Xin (Databricks)
Matei Zaharia (Databricks)

Hands-On: Getting Started with Amazon Web Services Bootcamp
Tuesday, August 16 - 9:00am to 12:00pm (Market - Parc 55)
 
Androski Spicer (AWS Solution Architect)
Ujjwal Ratan (AWS Solution Architect)
Jack Hemion (AWS Solution Architect)

Hands-On: CNTK—Microsoft’s open-source deep-learning toolkit
Tuesday, August 16 - 9:00am to 12:00pm (Embarcadero- Parc 55)
 
Frank Seide (Microsoft)
Amit Agarwal (Microsoft)

Hands-On: Streaming Analytics
Wednesday, August 17 - 9:00am to 12:00pm (Market - Parc 55)
 
Ashish Gupta (LinkedIn)

Hands-On: Scalable R on Spark
Wednesday, August 17 - 9:00am to 12:00pm (Embarcadero - Parc 55)
 
John-Mark Agosta (Microsoft)
Debraj GuhaThakurta (Microsoft)
Robert Horton (Microsoft)
Mario Inchiosa (Microsoft)
Srini Kumar (Microsoft)
Vanja Paunic (Microsoft)
Hang Zhang (Microsoft)
Mengyue Zhao (Microsoft)