Speaker: Deborah Diller Harris

Deborah Diller Harris

Deborah Diller Harris is a M.S. graduate student in Data Science at Elmhurst College (IL). Harris is a serial entrepreneur who is augmenting her business knowledge with Python skills. Her new career in data science will enable her to meld her business experience with the latest in technology. She is also the Founder of FemDataScience whose mission is to educate, encourage and elevate women in Big Data. She is the Organizer of the TampaBay PyLadies chapter, a former Assistant-Organizer of Chicago PyLadies and in 2018 started the Python Club at Elmhurst College. In addition, she volunteers her time to the Python Software Foundation by serving on several committees. www.femdatascience.com

Presenting:

30-minute Talk: Feature Engineering: An Apprentice’s Guide to the “Dark Art” of Machine Learning