Machine Learning, the undisputed star at Big Data Spain 2018

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What role does Machine Learning play in the Big Data universe? It has undoubtedly entailed taking one step beyond in the world of data. Thus, it is no wonder that many of the talks during this 7th Edition of Big Data Spain versed in one way or another, more or less specifically, on this discipline.

Databricks’ new project (MLflow), the challenges automatic learning faces or how behaviours such as consumption have changed were some of the topics that stood out at Big Data Spain 2018.

In the blog we have collected the most noteworthy talks on Machine Learning.

MLflow: Accelerating the Machine Learning Lifecycle (Matei Zaharia)

Matei Zaharia used his talk at Big Data Spain 2018 to present MLflow, one of the latest, most revolutionary open-code projects that Databricks is developing. If you would like to know what the first steps you need to take to start out in this platform’s universe are, do not miss his talk.

Beyond accuracy and time: Preservation of Privacy, Explainability or Reduced-Precision approaches in Machine Learning (Amparo Alonso)

Machine Learning is one of the areas in Artificial Intelligence that is playing an increasingly important role in Big Data systems. But how can we face up to one of its biggest challenges, the preservation of privacy? Amparo Alonso gave us the clues.

Scalable online ML or how I learned to stop wo… (Javier de Marías)

Machine Learning algorithms have become the keystone to solving most data analysis problems. In some cases, such as e.g. real-time forecasts, the challenge lies in how to make the entire process scalable and take place online. Javier de Marías told us what some of the main solutions are.

MLflow: Infrastructure for a Complete ML Life (Jules S. Damji)

The development of Machine Learning entails endless new complexities in traditional software development. Jules S. Damji told us how organisations can securely use any library and share applications using MLflow.

ML for product matching: the fashion use case (Alicia Pérez y Fco. Javier Ordóñez)

Big Data plays an essential role in the eCommerce universe. The new technologies and platforms have been able to radically change consumption. Alicia Pérez and Francisco Javier Ordóñez presented a use case to tell us how these new trends affect the fashion world.

Remember that you can find all the talks of this and past conventions in Big Data Spain’s YouTube channel. If you missed the talk of any of your favourite speakers, now is the time to watch it!

Ana Domínguez

Ana Domínguez holds a degree in Journalism from the Pontifical University Salamanca. She has worked in media such as Onda Cero and Punto Radio and has also worked as a screenwriter in national dramas such as ‘Gran Reserva’, ‘Hispania’ and ‘Gran Hotel’. She is currently part of the Paradigma Digital marketing team.

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