An Open Data Science Live Stream For the Ages: ODSC East 2018 Recap

On May 1-4th, 2018, data scientists from around the world gathered in Boston, Massachusetts for the fourth annual Open Data Science Conference East. With over 4,500 attendees hailing from academia, business, nonprofit sectors, and government, the conference marked one of ODSC's largest and most diverse gatherings to date. The 4-day conference hosted over 200 speakers and presentations as well as numerous workshops on topics ranging from specific concepts in machine learning and artificial intelligence to the application of data science principles in medical research, for-profit enterprise, and humanitarian causes. Dozens of core contributors to the most prominent open source data science tools, libraries, and languages gave practical demonstrations and shared their expertise including Dr. Drew Conway, Professor Gary Marcus and Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland. Of the hundreds of talks, a series of talks was available via live stream to the global ODSC community.