Margriet Groenedijk: A beginners guide to weather and climate data
Weather is part of our everyday lives. Who doesn’t check the rain radar before heading out, or the weather forecast when planning a weekend away? But where does this data come from, what is it made of?...
View ArticleNick waters: War in hd conflict and open source information
The huge flows of data enabled by social media, smart phones and the internet have created a revolution in the way we interact with events around the world, especially in the arena of conflict. This...
View ArticlePeter Moore: I went to work as an SQL programmer and left as a hostage
Peter Moore was an SQL Server developer of several years’ experience prior to accepting a three-month assignment working on a financial system for the Iraqi government. He returned home two and a half...
View ArticleSean Owen: What 50 years of data science leaves out
We’re told data science is the key to unlocking the value in big data, but nobody seems to agree just what it is. Is it engineering, statistics. . .both? David Donoho’s “50 Years of Data Science”,...
View ArticleGianluca Campanella: New uses for old tools an introduction to mathematical...
The concepts and methods of mathematical programming underlie many machine learning algorithms, and yet remain relatively unknown outside the operational research community. After a brief overview of...
View ArticleSoledad Galli Machine Learning in Financial Credit Risk Assessment
Credit Risk assessment aims to determine the probability of loss on a particular asset, investment or loan. The objective of assessing credit risk is to determine if an investment is worthwhile, what...
View ArticleDSF at Ticketmaster with Przemysław Chojecki
Przemysław Chojecki has a Ph.D. in mathematics from Paris, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford for 2 years. Currently, he is an assistant professor in Warsaw and a member of the...
View ArticleDSF at Ticketmaster with Thomas Rea and Martin Grayson
Ticketmaster International operates in over 20 countries, receives over 500M yearly visits across their sites and processes over 20M orders. In this talk we will share how we are using the cloud and...
View ArticleIan Sharp – The Ethics of AI and Data Science
Abstract: AI and Deep Learning are becoming increasingly important to discussions around the Ethical use of Data in commercial and government applications. The presentation covers where The industry is...
View ArticleComputer Vision Deep Dive with Nigel Markey
Talk Title: Computer Vision Deep Dive Abstract: Computer vision is the process of making computers detect and classify scenes, objects, and people. I’ll discuss different techniques, where things are...
View ArticleFrom academia to becoming a directioner
After completing his PhD in computer vision and machine learning, George Cushen took a job as the first computer vision data scientist at the UK’s second largest pureplay etailer, Shop Direct. Here, he...
View ArticleData Science Festival Bristol – Charles Radclyffe
Our 3rd Data Science Festival Bristol is live! – in partnership with OVO Energy join us this month for 2 great presentations. Charles Radclyffe: THREE STEPS TO SURVIVE THE ROBOT REVOLUTION The world...
View ArticleData Science Festival at Health Foundry – Elina Naydenova
Data Science Festival at Health Foundry Join the Data Science Festival for an evening of MedTech and Data Science. 3 Speakers outline what they have been working on over the past year and how to launch...
View ArticleData Science Festival at Health Foundry – William Gao
Data Science Festival at Health Foundry Join the Data Science Festival for an evening of MedTech and Data Science. 3 Speakers outline what they have been working on over the past year and how to launch...
View ArticleData Science Festival at Health Foundry – James Somauroo
Data Science Festival at Health Foundry Join the Data Science Festival for an evening of MedTech and Data Science. 3 Speakers outline what they have been working on over the past year and how to launch...
View ArticleData Science Festival and NLP at Google Campus – Ling Zhang
Data Science and NLP at Google Campus NLP: What you mean, not what you say A deep dive into the real world NLP pipeline of Aiden: our AI powered coworker with an entirely conversational interface. We...
View ArticleData Science Festival and NLP at Google Campus – Dong Nguyen
Data Science and NLP at Google Campus NLP for the social sciences: Opportunities and Challenges Massive digital datasets, such as social media data, provide the opportunity to study language use and...
View ArticleData Science Festival 2018 – Ling Zhang
Building a Fast Fuzzy Searcher and Spell Checker. Spelling is hard, really hard. It’s a an everyday user frustration to try to search for a friend’s name or the name of a restaurant that they heard but...
View ArticleData Science Festival 2018 – Jerome Le Luel
Reinventing a traditional business through smart use of data science. Lending to small businesses has historically been a task banks have struggled with due to its complexity. Harnessing the latest...
View ArticleData Science Festival 2018 – Marios Michailidis
H2O’s Driverless AI – An AI that creates AI! Through my kaggle journey to the top spot, I have noticed that many of the things I do to perform competitively in data challenges can be automated. In fact...
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