David Gerster

San Francisco Bay Area United States

VP Data Science

Technology / Software / Internet

I have a knack for making data science concepts accessible. One of my favorite talks was on anomaly detection at CERN, check out the video at http://davidgerster.com. As a data guy, I've been fortunate to work on some pretty cool stuff. At Yahoo, I led the project to collect billions of URL clickstreams from Toolbar and record them in Hadoop, data which was used to launch multiple new features for production web search ranking. I'm proud to have this recommendation from a member of the Y data science team: "David is an enabler for researchers, and works tirelessly to build systems that can be leveraged in multiple ways. He has the vision and foresight to push for the right things, and t...