Publications by Dr. Shirin Glander

Join MünsteR for our next meetup on obtaining functional implications of gene expression data with R

23.01.2018

In our next MünsteR R-user group meetup on March 5th, 2018 Frank Rühle will talk about bioinformatics and how to analyse genome data. You can RSVP here: http://meetu.ps/e/DDY1B/w54bW/f Next-Generation sequencing and array-based technologies provided a plethora of gene expression data in the public genomics databases. But how to get meaningful ...

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Sketchnotes from TWiML&AI #94: Neuroevolution: Evolving Novel Neural Network Architectures with Kenneth Stanley

27.01.2018

These are my sketchnotes for Sam Charrington’s podcast This Week in Machine Learning and AI about Neuroevolution: Evolving Novel Neural Network Architectures with Kenneth Stanley: Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk #94: Neuroevolution: Evolving Novel Neural Network Architectures with Kenneth Stanley You can listen to the podcast here. Kenneth stu...

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JAX 2018 talk announcement: Deep Learning – a Primer

29.01.2018

I am happy to announce that on Tuesday, April 24th 2018 Uwe Friedrichsen and I will give a talk about Deep Learning – a Primer at the JAX conference in Mainz, Germany. Deep Learning is one of the “hot” topics in the AI area – a lot of hype, a lot of inflated expectation, but also quite some impressive success stories. As some AI experts ...

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I talk about machine learning with Daniel Mies (Podcast in German, though)

31.01.2018

For those of you out there who speak German: I was interviewed for a tech podcast where I talked about machine learning, neural nets, why I love R and Rstudio and how I became a Data Scientist. You can download and listen to the podcast here: https://mies.me/2018/01/31/hmww17-machine-learning-mit-dr-shirin-glander/ In der aktuellen Episode gibt ...

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Announcing my talk about explainability of machine learning models at Minds Mastering Machines conference

31.01.2018

On Wednesday, April 25th 2018 I am going to talk about explainability of machine learning models at the Minds Mastering Machines conference in Cologne. The conference will be in German, though. ERKLÄRBARKEIT VON MACHINE LEARNING: WIE KÖNNEN WIR VERTRAUEN IN KOMPLEXE MODELLE SCHAFFEN? Mit Machine-Learning getroffene Entscheidungen sind inhäre...

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Conferences, webinars, podcasts and the likes

01.02.2018

Here, you can find a list of all the talks I gave at conferences, webinars, podcasts, workshops, and all the other places you can and could hear me talk. 🙂 Workshops I am giving Workshop on Deep Learning with Keras and TensorFlow in R I offer a workshop on deep learning with Keras and TensorFlow using R. Date and place depend on who and how ...

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April 12th & 13th: workshop on Deep Learning with Keras and TensorFlow in R

04.02.2018

Registration is now open for my 1.5-day workshop on deep learning with Keras and TensorFlow using R. It will take place on April 12th and 13th in Hamburg, Germany. In my workshop, you will learn the basics of deep learning what cross-entropy and loss is about activation functions how to optimize weights and biases with backpropagation and gradie...

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Sketchnotes from TWiML&AI #111: Learning “Common Sense” and Physical Concepts with Roland Memisevic

18.02.2018

These are my sketchnotes for Sam Charrington’s podcast This Week in Machine Learning and AI about Learning “Common Sense” and Physical Concepts with Roland Memisevic: Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk #111: Learning “Common Sense” and Physical Concepts with Roland Memisevic You can listen to the podcast here. In today’s episode, I’m ...

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Another Game of Thrones network analysis – this time with tidygraph and ggraph

03.03.2018

A while back, I did an analysis of the family network of major characters from the A Song of Ice and Fire books and the Game of Thrones TV show. In that analysis I found out that House Stark (specifically Ned and Sansa) and House Lannister (especially Tyrion) are the most important family connections in Game of Thrones; they also connect many of ...

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Sketchnotes from TWiML&AI #115: Scaling Machine Learning at Uber with Mike Del Balso

06.03.2018

These are my sketchnotes for Sam Charrington’s podcast This Week in Machine Learning and AI about Scaling Machine Learning at Uber with Mike Del Balso: Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk #115: Scaling Machine Learning at Uber with Mike Del Balso You can listen to the podcast here. In this episode, I speak with Mike Del Balso, Product Manager for ...

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