Speaker: Nelson Ray

Quantitative analyst working on AdWords at Google
Nelson Ray is a quantitative analyst working on AdWords at Google. He holds a B.S. in mathematics and an M.S. and Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University, where he wrote his thesis on the use of machine learning techniques for statistical inference. He was previously a software engineer working on analytics at Metamarkets.

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Talk: Not Exactly! Fast Queries via Approximation Algorithms

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