Session Title: What shapes prices in Airbnb? – OCI Data Science in Action

Abstract: In today’s IT world, there are many related terms everywhere you look with machine learning and artificial intelligence. It seems sometimes very complicated and scary. But is it really so? Oracle provides a set of tools in its cloud to carry out the entire process machine learning process. The session aims to show fans the technology from Oracle to what conclusions can be drawn based on a relatively small set of data from Airbnb. We will learn the basic tools available in OCI Data Science and take a look at some Python code.

Organizers: Nassyam Basha, Syed Zaheer

Speaker: Tomasz Ziss | Oracle Certified Master and Cloud Architect in all Public Clouds (Azure,AWS,GCP,Oracle Cloud)

Speaker Bio: I am Oracle Certified Master and Cloud Architect in all Public Clouds (Azure,AWS,GCP,Oracle Cloud). I’m also a DevOps and Machine Learning fan. I started my adventure in IT several years ago. First I have worked as a Java and .Net programmer. Later I’ve decided to be an Oracle DBA and since then I am continuing my journey in the Oracle world. I’ve added Cloud Architecture and Data Science and Data Engineering into my skill sets.

My main areas of specialization are:

• Performance Tuning
• High Available environments
• Automation

During my career I am responsible for technical task related to the Oracle database world.

Very often I participate in critical projects. Among them below should be highlighted:

• Tuning Oracle database and PL/SQL application code
• I was responsible for tuning work which helped improve overall system performance in critical client systems by 40%.
• Planning and design migration from system based on IBM DB2 databases to Oracle & MySQL databases
• I’ve designed plenty of automation scripts whose seriously reduced DBA’s tasks
• I’ve designed and implemented several database cross-platforms project in SAP environments

I have a very good understanding of the technical infrastructure, focusing mainly on the Oracle & IBM world.

I am the owner of several certifications, listed below.

• Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Professional
• Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning Certified Expert
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3 Foundation
• Oracle Exadata 11g Implementation Specialist
• IBM Certified Database Associate (DB2 10.1 Fundamentals)
• Oracle Database 12c Certified Implementation Specialist
• Oracle Database 11g Security Certified Implementation Specialist
• AWS Solution Architect Associate
• AWS Certified Developer
• Oracle Cloud Architect
• Professional Scrum Master I

Courses:

• AWS Certified Database – Specialty
• AWS Machine Learning – Specialty
• Machine Learning with Tensorflow