Speaking at Scotland on Rails

I'll be giving a talk titled "Collective Intelligence: Leveraging User Data to Create Intelligent Rails Applications" at Scotland on Rails! The title is a bit of a mouthful. It translates roughly into a talk about recommendation systems (like Amazon). Recommendation systems are sometimes a subset of machine learning, so it's a topic that I'm really excited about. I can't wait to help show that Ruby and Rails can be used for solving hard problems too.

Scotland on Rails is a two day conference in Edinburgh on April 4th and 5th. My friend and colleague Bryan Helmkamp will also be there presenting on Story First Development. It's the perfect excuse to make a trip to Scotland! If you need more motivation, take a look at the list of talks.