Dr. Rebecca Bilbro
Dr. Rebecca Bilbro is an applied AI/ML engineer and one of the pioneers of the data science revolution of the early 2010’s. Co-author of Applied Text Analysis with Python (O'Reilly 2017) and Apache Hudi: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly 2024), Rebecca has worked across academia, industry, and the public sector. She is co-creator of Yellowbrick, a Python library that integrates the scikit-learn and matplotlib APIs to support more convenient model diagnostics and steering. As co-founder and CTO of Rotational Labs, Rebecca is motivated by a desire to unite the data science and engineering communities. She and her team help other companies leverage in-house domain expertise and data to build and deploy LLMs, data products, and services. Rebecca earned her doctorate from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where her research centered on domain-specific languages within engineering.
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Beneath the surface of sophisticated services exists a vast realm that is hidden from most data scientists… the Platform. Present in every pipeline, every query, every notebook, it shapes the availability, consistency, and resilience of the systems on which we depend. In this talk, discover how understanding more about “the Platform” can enable data scientists to make choices that improve their chances of getting to production. The path to unlocking your data superpowers awaits. Will you take it?