Material Focus is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that aims to increase electrical recycling through partnerships with shops and local authorities, and by inspiring people to recycle through raising awareness and generating insights that help overcome barriers to recycling. They partnered with DataKind UK to gain a deeper understanding of what would really make an impact […]
The public availability and embedding of generative text and media tools have raised a number of concerns across academia and have resulted in a variety of responses to concerns around both academic and research integrity, but also of fairness and equity. This session will discuss the impact of generative tools from the perspective of Higher […]
The UK has a wide range of open data available, yet it’s little used with many companies instead preferring to buy data or worse not use any additional data at all. This is a mistake! My talk will cover an overview of the Open Data landscape alongside benefits, challenges and use cases for open data. […]
In the rapidly evolving field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the integration of Databricks offers groundbreaking opportunities for processing and analysing spatial data at scale. This talk aims to explore the innovative application of Databricks in GIS, highlighting its capabilities to perform geospatial analysis, data integration, and real-time processing in a distributed manner. We begin […]
I will be covering best practices of Prompt Engineering chatting to a LLM, as well as the Prompt Engineering back end for 2 different AI solutions and examples. Technical level: Introductory level/students (some technical knowledge needed) Session Length: 40 minutes
We’ve seen the power of vector embeddings in semantic search, RAG and recommender systems. However, optimizing the retrieval is a painful ranking, filtering and re-ranking process. We solve this problem by allowing you to include more information in your vectors. With better representations of your entity in the initial vector, search results will require less […]
Using AI to build a model for energy theft on smart metre. Smart metre is Edf device that record the consumption of electric energy. Technical level: Technical practitioner Session Length: 15 minutes
As a global company operating in over 80 countries worldwide, Haleon recognizes the importance of effective communication across diverse linguistic landscapes. With teams placed in different regions, the demand for rapid and accurate translation is crucial. In response to this challenge, our Data Science team has developed an innovative solution — LLM-based translation tool. In […]
In November 2022, ChatGPT took the world by storm and Large Language Models (LLMs) have been a hot topic ever since. However, their limitations such as outdated training data, restricted context windows, latency and API rate limits have become clear. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has grown popular as an approach to circumvent some of these […]