https://datasciencela.github.io/tag/datapop/Recent content in datapop on DataScience.LAHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usDataScience.LA, 2014–2021 · Read-only archive: comments are closed.Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:46:33 -0800https://datasciencela.github.io/datascience-la-meetup-summary-data-science-datapop/Mon, 26 Jan 2015 10:41:08 -0800https://datasciencela.github.io/datascience-la-meetup-summary-data-science-datapop/<figure class="sd-embed"> <div class="sd-frame" style="aspect-ratio: 710/532"> <iframe src="https://speakerdeck.com/player/2cbc228082f80132b1b262fb4005ffd2" title="Ben Zamanzadeh - Data Science @ Datapop - LA Data Science meetup - January 2015" loading="lazy" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> <figcaption><a href="https://speakerdeck.com/datasciencela/ben-zamanzadeh-data-science-at-datapop-la-data-science-meetup-january-2015">Ben Zamanzadeh - Data Science @ Datapop - LA Data Science meetup - January 2015</a> · Speaker Deck</figcaption> </figure> <p>On January 13th, DataScience.LA held its first Data Science meetup of 2015, hosting a speaker from a local semantic advertising startup, DataPop. Their CTO, Dr. Ben Zamanzadeh, gave an in-depth presentation (linked above) of his perspective on e-commerce and advertising, which focused on extracting semantic meaning and DataPop’s marketing knowledge graph. He began his talk by discussing the evolution of e-commerce and moved quickly to semantics, making some very strong statements regarding DataPop’s architectural choices. For example, even though they provide a semantic graph, they are based on Redshift and do not use graph databases - which was quite the surprise to us here at DataScience.LA! At one point, Dr. Zamanzadeh even commented,</p>