From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Oren Etzioni
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:19 PM
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Subject: [cs-ugrads] Machine Learning Talk by Zillow’s Chief Economist. On Friday.
Title: “Machine Learning at Zillow – Looking Under the Hood at Zestimates”
Description: “Zillow updates the market value for 70 million homes in the U.S. three times each week. In doing so, the company produces more than 350,000 statistical and machine learning models each night. In this discussion, we’ll learn more about problem space of home valuation, the data that is available for solving the problem, the techniques Zillow uses for this application, and the pitfalls and learnings they’ve encountered along the way.”
Speaker: Stan Humphries
Time: Friday, March 5th at 2:30pm.
Place: EE 037 (guest lecture in CSE 446)