Conference Video: Data Cleaning for Lazy people: How to Automate Data Cleaning Responsibly

This is Leslie Emery’s presentation from the WiDS Puget Sound Conference 2021. Enjoy!

ABSTRACT:

While data cleaning is crucial to achieving quality analysis results, data scientists continually bemoan the amount of time they spend on this crucial task. My talk will cover the elements of data cleaning and provide a spectrum of possible ways to automate cleaning while maintaining data quality.

BIO:

Leslie is a data scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb working in R&D for cancer treatment and drug discovery. She has a PhD in genomics and over 10 years of experience in statistical inference and designing reproducible analysis code. Her interests include experimentation, causal inference, machine learning, and ML engineering.