Big Data Meets Learning Science

1,498 views · Published 9 February 2017 · 10:06 · Indexed 23 September 2026

Channel: Databricks · 2017 · Science & Technology

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How do we learn and how can we learn better? Educational technology is undergoing a revolution fueled by learning science and data science. The promise is to make a high-quality personalized education accessible and affordable by all. In this presentation Alfred will describe how Apache Spark and Databricks are at the center of the innovation pipeline at McGraw Hill for developing next-generation learner models and algorithms in support of millions of learners and instructors worldwide.

Speaker: Alfred Essa

This talk was originally presented at Spark Summit East 2017.

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