Speaker Profile: Deborah Hanus (@deborahhanus)
Deborah graduated from MIT with her Master’s and Bachelor’s in Computer Science in computer science, where she developed mathematical models of human perception. Then as a Fulbright Scholar in Cambodia, she investigated how education translates into job creation. She worked as an early software engineer at a San Francisco start up before taking a break to work on exciting data & programming-related projects as a PhD candidate in machine learning at Harvard.
Deborah will be presenting “Lights, camera, action! Scraping a great dataset to predict Oscar winners” at 11:00AM Sunday (2/5) in the Room 100. Using Jupyter notebooks and scikit-learn, you’ll predict whether a movie is likely to win an Oscar or be a box office hit. (http://oscarpredictor.github.io/) Together, we’ll step through the creation of an effective dataset: asking a question your data can answer, writing a web scraper, and answering those questions using nothing but Python libraries and data from the Internet.
Sponsor Profile: Axial Healthcare (@axialhealthcare)
axialHealthcare is the nation’s leading pain medication and pain care management company. Our cutting-edge analytics engine mines data to give insurers a comprehensive view of their pain problem and what it’s costing them. axial’s pain management solutions improve financial performance by engaging practitioners and patients, optimizing pain care outcomes, and reducing opioid misuse. The axialHealthcare team is comprised of some of the nation’s top physicians, scientists, pharmacists, and operators in the field of pain management. Our team is mission-focused, smart, collaborative, and growing. Learn more at axialhealthcare.com.