"Ian Varley (Salesforce) covers the emerging field of cognitive biases--bugs in our mental operating system--and takes a cold, hard look at how these mental blind spots defeat our attempts to build quality software in every domain. (If you've read books like Thinking Fast and Slow and You Are Not So Smart, you'll be familiar with the basic idea.). While awareness of cognitive biases is a good life skill in general, it's particularly critical if you're...

Overgard is a resourceful yet increasingly desperate man stranded in a remote, snow-covered wilderness. After a plane crash in an icy wasteland, Overgard must live by his wits as he waits for help to arrive. But when a long-awaited rescue effort fails, he faces a life-or-death decision: remain in the relative safety of his camp and hope to be found or embark on an arduous trek that may be the only hope for both him and a critically injured stranger....

"Presented by Sylvia Tran, Data Scientist at Gracenote. User preferences and content similarity are both key to recommendation systems. While content similarity has been widely explored and utilized by many companies in the media & entertainment industries, it still remains relevant as the amount of data and metadata available continues to grow and change. This talk discusses some of the challenges of content similarity and explores a few different...

"Rarely does a crisis touch so many people so fast. Managing people right now has become even more complicated and more challenging, but there are things you can do to set your organization and your team up to weather this crisis. Expert Cynthia Owens managed a team during the SARS crisis in Singapore. Over 90 minutes, she'll share what she learned and actions you can take at each of the three stages of a crisis. Get clear takeaways for immediate...

Before any analysis can begin, a data scientist needs to discover the right data sources to analyze, understand them, and determine whether they can trust them. Unfortunately, data discovery is very inefficient today. Countless hours are lost trying to find the right data to use. (The most common way still remains to ask a coworker.) Gaining trust in data requires running a bunch of queries (max timestamp, counts per day, count distincts, etc.) that...

"This easy video tutorial is the fastest way to master modern data science best practices and use them to promote timely, evidence-based decision-making! Applied Data Mining LiveLessons demystifies current best practices, showing how to uncover hidden patterns and leverage them to improve all aspects of business performance. Drawing on extensive experience as a researcher, practitioner, and instructor, Dr. Dursun Delen shows you exactly how analytics...