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Note: these are the slides from a presentation at Lexis Nexis in Alpharetta, GA, on 2014-01-08 as part of the DataScienceATL Meetup. A video of this talk from Dec 2013 is available on vimeo at http://bit.ly/1aJ6xlt
Note: Slideshare mis-converted the images in slides 16-17. Expect a fix in the next couple of days.
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Deep learning is a hot area of machine learning named one of the "Breakthrough Technologies of 2013" by MIT Technology Review. The basic ideas extend neural network research from past decades and incorporate new discoveries in statistical machine learning and neuroscience. The results are new learning architectures and algorithms that promise disruptive advances in automatic feature engineering, pattern discovery, data modeling and artificial intelligence. Empirical results from real world applications and benchmarking routinely demonstrate state-of-the-art performance across diverse problems including: speech recognition, object detection, image understanding and machine translation. The technology is employed commercially today, notably in many popular Google products such as Street View, Google+ Image Search and Android Voice Recognition.
In this talk, we will present an overview of deep learning for data scientists: what it is, how it works, what it can do, and why it is important. We will review several real world applications and discuss some of the key hurdles to mainstream adoption. We will conclude by discussing our experiences implementing and running deep learning experiments on our own hardware data science appliance.