Dash Hudson – Digital Nova Scotia – Leading Digital Industry

Halihax Data Science Meetup

Dash Hudson 1668 Barrington Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia

📣 About The Speakers Tim Speed CTO @ Modest TreeA software developer and for many years that's pivoted primarily to focus machine learning and leading technology at Modest Tree. Most of my career has been in startups though I have a few years in big tech by working with LinkedIn on their learning platform; overall a large part of my experience has been focused on developing learning technology and supporting tools. LinkedIn, Twitter (X) Gordon Shotwell Senior Software Engineer @ Posit PBCGordon has built data science web applications for many years, and currently works on the Shiny for Python team at posit. LinkedIn ⏱️ Agenda For The Event 6:00pm – Doors Open Come early to grab a beverage and socialize with others. 6:30 pm – Presentations An introduction to Modern Machine learning and it's future How does Shiny really work? Shiny is a web application framework for R and Python, and has two special features. First, Shiny uses a reactive computation graph to only render the parts of the UI which need to change in response to a user's actions, and second it infers that graph from your application. While you tell Shiny what to do, you don't tell it when […]