Head of Data Science at Vox Media
Amit is the Head of Data Science at Vox Media, a modern media company focused on going deeper to connect with global, passionate, curious audiences. At Vox, Amit works across all of their web properties in developing models to better understand audiences as well as working to deliver innovative product solutions such as personalization and recommendations to the platform. Amit also teaches in the Data Science program at the UC Berkeley School of Information. He received a Ph.D. in physics from Indiana University. Previously, he has led data science initiatives at both ed-tech and advertising companies, and worked as a quantitative analyst at various banks and hedge funds for twelve years. In his spare time, he likes to plan skiing and backpacking trips, and dabble with machine learning algorithms for fantasy football.
WATCH LIVE: December 16 @ 4:10pM – 4:40pm ET
As Data Science has matured as a discipline, there are increasingly robust and sophisticated tools for automating machine learning pipelines and workflows. While the demand for data scientists remains strong, the nature of the work is changing rapidly as technology evolves. Companies looking to hire data scientists and put machine learning models in production would be wise to consider the types of modern tools they expect to use. In this talk we will discuss some of the current workflows, the skills that are necessary and some of the platforms that are part of this landscape. One night very well reconsider the types of data skills for which to hire.