Gary Short is a freelance data scientist. He specialises in machine learning and predictive analytics on the Azure Platform, but has an interest in cloud scale analytics in all forms, especially computational linguistics and social network analysis.
Talks I've Given
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Tutorial: Bayesian Decision Making in The Face of Uncertainty
Featuring Gary Short
When you make a decision, in an ideal world, you will have gathered all the pertinent facts and you will weigh them to come to a logical conclusion.
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Data Science for Fun and Profit
Featuring Gary Short
During this talk Gary will take you on a journey through probability and predictive analytics, starting with the basics and ending with advanced machine learning. Instead of just presenting you with one topic after another, however, you'll explore this through the medium of predicting the...
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Web App Development With Meteor
Featuring Gary Short
Meteor is an ultra-simple environment for building modern websites and in this session gives a brief introduction to Meteor before helping us to build a real world web application in Meteor.
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End to End Javascript
Featuring Gary Short
It is becoming more important to know Javascript. As a language it has infiltrated all three layers of application development , from JQuery in the front end, through NodeJS in the middle tier, to Map/Reduce functions on backend databases like CouchDB. In this session we’ll take a look at some of...
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Applied F#
Featuring Gary Short
In this presentation, Gary Short looks at how he uses F#, and we’ll see examples of F# used to calculate values for some of the metrics that are important in my line of work.
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