Life of a Quantitative Analyst at Google - living and breathing Cloud-enabled knowledge discovery and data mining
- LecturerDr. Yu-To Chen (Google)
Host: Dr. Meng Chang Chen - Time2010-10-13 (Wed.) 10:30 – 12:00
- LocationAuditorium 106 at new IIS Building
Abstract
Speaker: Dr. Yu-To Chen
Date: Wed Oct 13, 2010 at 10:30 ~ 12:00
Place: Auditorium 106 at new IIS Building
Abstract:
This presentation will provide a glimpse of the life of a Quantitative
Analyst (QA) at Google. At a high level, a QA plays a role as an
ensemble of product manager, software engineer, database admin,
statistician and financial guru. At the technical level, a QA
literally lives, embraces and breathes Cloud-enabled knowledge
discovery and data mining. In particular, QAs live and die by their
ability to manage data, make sense of data, build predictive models,
prototype analytic engines, and make recommendations and
decisions. Greater technical detail will be presented on a select
subset of the ongoing projects at YouTube. For instance, site abuser
behavior modeling using Cloud-based on-line adaptive logistic
regression. The goal is to demonstrate how Cloud Computing changes
the fundamentals of a QA in a subtle, but ubiquitous way. Finally,
the presentation will be concluded by reiterating the importance of
QAs as an integral part of Cloud Computing Services, among platform
engineers, hardware engineers, system architects and software
engineers, etc.