Manuel Ebert

PyCon is the world’s largest conference about everything concerning the Python Programming language, with more than 3000 attendees. In this talk, I presented novel Natural Language Processing algorithms that can automatically find definitions for new words on the internet.

A “Lone Wolf” Data Scientist is the only data scientist on their team or even in their company. As a consulting firm, we are often played exactly this role, or are brought on to support other solitary data scientists. I talked about the challenges and opportunities of being the lone wolf.

Drawing from my experience as a Neuroscience researcher, I demonstrated how tools such as a mouse pointer can become natural extensions of the user and explain the neuroscience behind the process. But I’ll also show that tools change us, and in fact even change how we see the world.

Ambient data is data passively generated as a byproduct of living in a digitally augmented world. In this invited talk at the data science school Zipfian Academy, I explained algorithms and processes that can harness ambient data to create new experiences for the user.