The Data Chat

As a Junior at Northwestern University at Evanston, I am pursuing a major in Data Science and minor in Business. Each Quarter, I will write about my experience with the Data Science program I am part of. I just completed the Winter Quarter of my Junior Year at Northwestern University, my first quarter back on…

Subhasis Patnaik is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Engineering at EdCast. Backed by top tier Venture Capital firms such as SoftBank and Menlo Ventures,EdCast is an award-winning, AI-powered Knowledge Cloud for Unified Discovery, Personalized Learning. The company has customers including Fortune 500 companies and multinational organizations. EdCast uses artificial intelligence and its…

Recommender Systems are everywhere. From Amazon recommending books or other items with “Customers who bought this item also bought ..” to Netflix recommending movies based on the user’s viewing habits, we see recommender systems in action on a daily basis.   Recommender systems have come a long way from the early days of Amazon (e.g., Amazon’s…

Welcome to The Data Chat readers! I’m Anna and I’m currently a freshman at University of California, Davis majoring in Statistics and  pursuing a Data Science/Machine Learning track. One of the reasons I got attracted to Data Science is the interdisciplinary nature of the subject. In particular, I am interested in how data science is…