The meetup page can be found here: [http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Vowpal-Wabbit-Meetup/]
Past meetups
- July 20, 2015 [http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Vowpal-Wabbit-Meetup/events/223871709/]
- Sharat Chikkerur, Vowpal Wabbit in AzureML
- Sarah Bird, Microsoft Research, Introduction to contextual bandits in vowpal wabbit
- Luong Hoang, Microsoft Research, Multi-word testing (super A/B testing) using vowpal wabbit
- September 10, 2015 [http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Vowpal-Wabbit-Meetup/events/225049378/]
- Sharat Chikkerur, A quick walk through of vowpal wabbit features
- Brian Scannell, Optimization engineer, Nanigans: Using vowpal wabbit with python notebook
- Scott Graham, Optimization engineer, Nanigans: Integrating vowpal wabbit in scikit-learn
- December 16, 2015 [http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Vowpal-Wabbit-Meetup/events/227321222/]
- Scott Graham, Nanigans: Using scikit-learn interface to do hyper parameter optimization
- Atul Joshi, Nanigans: Modeling feature interactions using low-rank-quadratic (--lrq) feature
- Sharat Chikkerur, Nanigans: Overview of update rules
- April 14, 2016 [http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Vowpal-Wabbit-Meetup/events/229634400/]
- Sharat Chikkerur, Nanigans: Overview of LDA for text analysis
- Rani Nelken, Outbrain: A case study of using VW for online LDA
- Atul Joshi, Nanigans: Simple game playing using reinforcement learning and VW
- July 28, 2016 [http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Vowpal-Wabbit-Meetup/events/232777915/]
- Sharat Chikkerur, Nanigans: Poisson regression, theory and demo
- Gideon Wulfhson, Nanigans: Parameter optimization using hyperopt -- demo
- Atul Joshi, Nanians: Reinforcement learning using VW