- Super Mario from Microsoft (Daniel Molnar) - Data Janitor 101, one of the best reasoned talks I heard for a long time.
- Andrew Clegg, data scientist @ Etsy gave an historic review on Semantic Similarity and Taxonomic Distance and how it is used in Etsy. Slides are here.
- Topic Modeling on Github repositories - presented by Vadim Markovtsev from source{d}. Why is that interesting? Few possible evolutions - code quality, natural language to code. Also interesting direction to have a look on - bigartm.
- Data Thinker - Is it a new role? Is it just a buzzword? Klaas Bollhoefer from the Unbelievable Machine presented their ideas.
- Databases - The Choice is Yours - Philipp Krenn from Elastic presented his view on the databases field.