Data Scientist’s Guide to Startups – Round Table Discussion

This discussion was held at the KDD 2013 Conference in Chicago. The title says it all. Here is the full discussion.

A Data Scientist’s Guide to Start-Ups

The following people were involved in the discussion.

• Foster Provost – Professor at NYU
• Geoffrey I. Webb – Research Professor at Monash University
• Ron Bekkerman – Assistant Professor of Data Science and startup advisor
• Oren Etzioni – CEO of Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and startup founder(many times)
• Usama Fayyad – Chief Data Office at Yahoo
• Claudia Perlich – Chief Scientist at Dstillery and data mining competition champion