Scott Hajek @jscotthajek
Senior Data Scientist at Pivotal
About
Scott Hajek is a Senior Data Scientist for Pivotal. He has applied his expertise in machine learning and natural language processing to diverse industries and use cases, including communications surveillance, information extraction from unstructured text, linking information across disparate data sources, network security, price optimization, and logistics optimization.
Scott holds an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.A. in Psychology and Linguistics from UNC Chapel Hill. At those institutions he investigated how humans understand and produce language, both written and spoken, with a focus on understudied languages such as Thai.
presented by Scott Hajek
Data scientists today expect to work with tools that have good abstractions and interfaces. Pure SQL is not the best interface for data science, but the power and scale of SQL-based systems can be beneficial. This talk introduces a modern interface for Postgres and Greenplum that appeals to data scientists.
The importance of good abstractions and interfaces can be seen in the dominance of R...
more Tue 19 2019 Greenplum Summit