**Event Title: Data Boards: A Collaborative and Interactive Space for Data Science**[[Register -> Here]](https://nycdatascience.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X7_FoqqPRVy0tWzsSGFJ-A) **Date and Time: Tuesday August 9th from 5-6 EDT** **Event Description:**Unleashing the full potential of data and AI requires a paradigm shift in the algorithms and tools used to analyze data and build models towards more interactive systems with highly collaborative and visual interfaces. Ideally, data scientists and domain experts should be able to closely work together and make discoveries together by directly manipulating, analyzing and visualizing data on the spot as a team, instead of having week-long forth-and-back interactions between them. Current visualization and workflow tools are ill-suited for this purpose. They were not designed to be interactive nor to support teams to actually work together rather than just share final results. Similarly, most machine learning algorithms are not able to provide initial answers at "human speed" (i.e., seconds), nor are existing methods sufficient to convey the impact of the various risk factors, such as multi-hypothesis problems. Finally, most visual data exploration tools still fail when used over large datasets or require horrendous loading times before any real-work can begin. **About NYC Data Science Academy**[NYC Data Science Academy](https://bit.ly/3zZPdyq) provides data science training programs and courses that prepare people for employment opportunities for data science professionals across all industries. NYC Data Science Academy teaches data science, trains companies and employees to better profit from data, excels at big data project consulting, and connects trained Data Scientists to our industry. We have graduated over 5000 students at this point! Join our [Interactive Distance / In-Person Learning Bootcamp](https://bit.ly/3NgAMZM) and prepare for the next step in your data science career! ([https://nycdatascience.com/data-science-bootcamp/](https://nycdatascience.com/data-science-bootcamp/))

**This talk will serve as an overview of Tolga Akiner’s upcoming NLP in Production course at the NYC Data Science Academy running from September to October 2022.** **About This Event**As the unstructured text data has been exponentially increasing in volume, velocity, and variety in the last decade, NLP has become one of the most exciting and rapidly growing sub-fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with immense research and practical interest. Organizations have been building and executing different text analytics capabilities to generate insights, make better decisions, and automate different processes while dealing with large text data. New deep learning-based NLP technologies such as BERT, GPT3, and LaMDA are in production and on the news nowadays.  This course demonstrates a practical and intuitive approach to NLP applications through various use cases. Essentials and practical fundamentals of NLP methods are presented via generic Python packages including but not limited to Regex, NLTK, SpaCy, and Huggingface. **About Event Speaker:**Tolga Akiner is a Senior Data Scientist in LexisNexis and has NLP experience in different companies and industries are pharmaceuticals, healthcare, retail and legal. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering where he worked on nanomaterials followed by post-doctoral research heavily using Machine Learning and Active Learning in Materials Science. He previously contributed to ‘The practical AI course in Udemy covering NLP lectures and blogged on Medium focusing on some practical text analytics applications.   **About NYC Data Science Academy**[NYC Data Science Academy](https://bit.ly/3zZPdyq) provides data science training programs and courses that prepare people for employment opportunities for data science professionals across all industries. NYC Data Science Academy teaches data science, trains companies and employees to better profit from data, excels at big data project consulting, and connects trained Data Scientists to our industry. We have graduated over 5000 students at this point! Join our [Interactive Distance / In-Person Learning Bootcamp](https://bit.ly/3NgAMZM) and prepare for the next step in your data science career!