Machine Learning & Data Science at Github (with Omoju Miller)
What is the role of data science in product development at github, what does it means to “use computation to build products to solve real-life decision making, practical challenges” and what does building data products at github actually looks like?
About Omoju Miller
Omoju Miller is a Senior Machine Learning Data Scientist with Github. She has over a decade of experience in computational intelligence. She has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. Apart from her work in AI, she has co-led the non-profit investment in Computer Science Education for Google and served as a volunteer advisor to the Obama administration’s White House Presidential Innovation Fellows. She is considered one of the folks to watch, as part of Bloomberg’s Beta Future Founders program. She is a member of the World Economic Forum Expert Network in AI.
Links from the show
FROM THE INTERVIEW
- Artificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet by Michael Jordan
- GitHub Learning Lab
- Github careers
- "We rely on 15 people to do our science. Without them matplotlib, numpy and pandas would not be maintained."
FROM THE SEGMENT
Data Science Best Practices (with Justin Bois)
