Machine Learning is one of the fastest growing areas of computer science. Are you curious about Machine Learning, but think it just seems like too big of a mountain to climb? This talk is a beginners guide to machine learning and data science. We will cover everything from getting and massaging the data to publishing your model. You won't be an expert after this talk, but you'll be off to a pretty good start...
Tess is a developer evangelist at Microsoft. She has a long background in .net development and analytics/debugging, and is equally happy developing beautiful algorithms as she is developing sweet User Interfaces. She has been blogging at http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/Tess for the better part of her career, and spoken at lots and lots of conferences around the world.
