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Waqas Dhillon

Waqas Dhillon

Product Manager - Machine Learning, Vertica

Waqas is the product management lead for machine learning with Vertica. In his current role, he drives the strategy and implementation of advanced analytics and machine learning features in the Vertica MPP platform. Waqas holds a bachelor’s degree in computer software engineering from NUST and a master’s degree in management from Harvard University.
Prior to his current role, Waqas has worked in multiple positions where he applied data analytics and machine learning for consumer research and revenue growth for companies in consumer packaged goods and telecommunication industries.

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In-Database Machine Learning 1 – Why Would You Do That?

Waqas Dhillon, Product Manager - Machine Learning, Vertica
April 22, 2019

Co-authored with Paige Roberts. A lot of modern like Vertica allow you to do machine learning from end to end, right in the database, rather than moving and transforming the data first into something like a Spark dataframe or a Python data structure. Whenever people hear about this capability, they have two questions. The first...