Posts by Denny Lee

Think back to when you were in high school - so fresh and full of ideas. Since then, undoubtedly, both the world and the way you see things have changed in many ways, as you have gained new experiences. Data, like our experiences, is always evolving and accumulating. To keep up, our mental models of...

The advent of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in the late 2000s enabled scientists to begin to understand the causes of complex diseases such as diabetes and Crohn’s disease at their most fundamental level. However, academic bioinformatics tools to perform GWAS have not kept pace with the growth of genomic data, which has been doubling globally...

Download the following notebooks and try the AutoML Toolkit today: Evaluating Risk for Loan Approvals using XGBoost (0.90) | Using AutoML Toolkit to Simplify Loan Risk Analysis XGBoost Model Optimization This blog was originally published on September 10th, 2019; it has been updated on October 2nd, 2019. In a previous blog and notebook, Loan Risk Analysis...

Try out this notebook series in Databricks - part 1 (Delta Lake), part 2 (Delta Lake + ML) For many data scientists, the process of building and tuning machine learning models is only a small portion of the work they do every day. The vast majority of their time is spent doing the less-than-glamorous (but...

On June 13th, we hosted a live webinar — Simplifying Streaming Stock Analysis using Delta Lake and Apache Spark — with Junta Nakai, Industry Leader - Financial Services at Databricks, John O’Dwyer, Solution Architect at Databricks, and Denny Lee, Technical Product Marketing Manager at Databricks. This is the first webinar in a series of financial...

This blog is part 1 of our two-part series Using Dynamic Time Warping and MLflow to Detect Sales Trends. To go to part 2, go to Using Dynamic Time Warping and MLflow to Detect Sales Trends. The phrase “dynamic time warping,” at first read, might evoke images of Marty McFly driving his DeLorean at 88...

This blog is part 2 of our two-part series Using Dynamic Time Warping and MLflow to Detect Sales Trends. The phrase “dynamic time warping,” at first read, might evoke images of Marty McFly driving his DeLorean at 88 MPH in the Back to the Future series. Alas, dynamic time warping does not involve time travel; instead, it’s...