Transformation with Data and AI, H2O Open Dallas 2016, Keynote by Sri Ambati, founder @h2o.ai @srisatish - Powered by the open source machine learning software H2O.ai. Contributors welcome at: https://github.com/h2oai - To view videos on H2O open source machine learning software, go to: https://www.youtube.com/user/0xdata

1. Transformation
with Data + AI
Sri Ambati, engineer
@srisatish @h2oai

2. team
community
& customers
Thank You.
Speakers, Listeners.
Doers.
data geeks of dallas!

3. Transformation

4. Transformation
caterpillar to butterfly
engineer to founder
manager to leader
child to grandpa

5. Transformation
falsehood to truth.
darkness to light.
death to immortality.

6. Transformation
darkness to light.
Happy Diwali, everyone!

7. life cycle of Data
data to insight
insight to story
story to wisdom

8. Life cycle of Data
data to insight
insight to story
story to wisdom
data transforms processes.
data science is the pursuit of truth

9. Universe is sparse. Life is messy.
Data is sparse and messy.
- Lao Tsu
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10. algorithms + data =
business

11. algorithms + data + people
= transformation

12. transformation
data + ai

14. Time is the only non-renewable resource!

15. Come gather round people
Admit the h2o around you has grown.
first one now will later be last..

16. Code is changing the world!

17. Code is changing the world.
aka
Software is eating the world

18. code is a commodity.

19. Value has shifted to asset-light platforms
airbnb beats hyatt
uber beats tesla

20. VerticalisthenewHorizontal

21. vertical is the new horizontal
data products
2022
code is a commodity
data ecosystems & alliances
Brand
Community

22. Shift focus from internal to external interactions!
From Rule-based to Pattern Recognition!

23. Every company needs a digital arm!

25. Microservices, not monolithic applications!

26. Enterprises reinventing as micro businesses!

27. Credit Scoring, Lending
AML, KYC, Personalized
Employment, Income Verification
Payroll, Controllers, Accountants..

28. Open source is defense of Community with Code

29. Open source is defense of Community with product
It’s pull not push.
PR means Pull Request.
Freedom not free.
It’s pull not push.
PR means Pull Request.
Freedom not free.

30. make software, not just consume it!

31. Nurture Community Love
with beautiful data products

32. Companies
0
2,500
5,000
7,500
10,000
2014 2015 2016
Data Scientists
0
20,000
40,000
60,000
80,000
2014 2015 2016
Community
Usage

33. H2O
2012
Steam
2015
Sparkling
Water
2014
DeepWater
2016
AutoML
Visual Intelligence
2017
platform
legos
data.table
“munging”

34. data
accuracyexperience
api
design
Python
algorithms
speed
1k
10k
1m
text
Image
features

35. AutoML
Deep Learning
data feedback
user
anatomy of a data product
code

36. Combinatorial Innovation
in AI is ahead!

37. learning rate
data

38. learning
means accepting you are wrong

39. data science is the search for truth

41. Learning + Scoring
Online Learning

43. Optimize for Scale.

44. Power law of Networks
Data
Product
User
Interaction
Data
1 idea
4 ideas
Infinite Ideas
6 ideas
3 ideas
2 ideas

46. make platforms not just products!
ecosystems grow by giving.
Raise a forest, not just a tree!

47. data is a team sport

48. Data
is a
Team
Sport!
Algorithms
Data
Design
Business
Apps
Domain
Business Transformation Units

50. StoryTelling is a human endeavor!
Interpretation beats accuracy, at times.
Signal as an API.

51. Visual Intelligence
starts where data science pauses!
Data Scientist = 100% data
Business Unit = 85% data, 15% storytelling
Executive = 15% data, 85% storytelling
Board = 99% storytelling
GrandPa = 100% storytelling

52. Data journalism
= data science was 4 years ago!

53. 20,000 Simulations
FiveThirtyEight.com

54. culture is your co-founder
startups are team sports!

55. Why make one CEO if you can make 10?

56. Inspire 10 great women CEOs!
Change will come in spades!

57. Every generation needs to fight its revolution!

58. 40,000 fmri studies invalidated due to a bug.
Open Source and Open Data is the path!

59. Open Data Ecosystems.
Open Source Diagnostics Software.
Open Source Algorithms to fight Disease.
Data Products Save Lives!
Consumers integrate verticals.

60. AI is eating Software!

61. Software that trains itself with data.
AI is eating Software!

62. Bolt

63. AI is disruptive.
Manufacturing Intelligence.
Make us more human.

64. Being human beings is a process.
ai optimizes that.

65. Struggle is the Story!
hunger cannot be simulated.

66. You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it!

67. DATA
CASH
data is just a four-letter word!
code

68. love is the only renewable resource
TIME
LOVE

69. 3 Things to learn from a Child
Always be Happy
Never be Idle
Cry for what you want.

70. busy being born or busy dying.
Alice.
d li

71. Transform