22-25 April 2026
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SQLBits 2022

Slaying Machine Learning with Buffy

Creating, evaluating and showcasing a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode using Natural Language Processing on Microsoft Azure
The last episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired in 2003, to bring back the magic we will use machine learning to create a brand new episode. We will use out of the box Microsoft offerings to help analyse the series and use DNNs to create a whole new episode. We will touch on ethics and discuss both basic and advanced techniques. This session is aimed at Data Scientists new to NLP, new or established data scientist interested in learning more about the Azure ML platform or any fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We will cover text generation with DNNs and transformer models, document classification and prediction and text to voice technologies to bring to life a new Buffy episode.