Blog Archives

10 Apr 2024

Building Profitable Models: Lessons from M&S

The Enterprise Data Science and Analytics team at M&S designs models for diverse aspects of supply chain and the product lifecycle management. A significant hurdle we encounter is that the financial value of these models can only be measured through trials after substantial investments in data preparation and model training. In this session, we will […]

10 Apr 2024

Identifying Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Diseases with Machine Learning

Cardiovascular diseases are a significant global health concern, responsible for one-third of deaths worldwide and posing a substantial burden on society and national healthcare systems. To effectively address this challenge and develop targeted intervention strategies, the ability to predict cardiovascular diseases from standardized assessments, such as occupational health encounters or national surveys, is critical. This […]

10 Apr 2024

Bridging Metrics with Humanity: Empowering Teams and Engaging Clients through Data Visualization and Storytelling

In today’s data-driven world, organisations are inundated with metrics and analytics. However, the true power of data lies not just in numbers and graphs but in its ability to connect with people. In this enlightening session, we will explore the crucial link between metrics and humanity, delving into both internal and external strategies for leveraging […]

10 Apr 2024

Data Analytics Competitions: A Guide for Success

Data Analytics Competitions are a particular type of Data Science challenge that focuses on answering a specific set of questions posed by the organisers. Unlike classical machine learning competitions, participants are not constrained to prediction tasks and can approach the problem using various statistical methods. In this talk, you will learn more about Data Analytics […]

10 Apr 2024

7 Learnings from Scaling a Data Science Product in PowerBI

Future Anthem uses AI to personalise the player experience for everyone. As part of their product suite, Future Anthem uses Microsoft PowerBI to help gambling operators and studios analyse player behaviour across their portfolios. Using a range of AI and Advanced Analytics, they have developed successful products that are used by some of the industry’s […]

10 Apr 2024

The Power of Knowledge Graphs and AI: A New Era for Developers and Data Scientists

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are data structures that can capture complex relationships between concepts in a very flexible way. They excel at harmonizing huge amounts of heterogeneous data, and we can train AI models to generate embeddings of its nodes and vertices. These embeddings can be used to infer knowledge from the graph, such as when […]

10 Apr 2024

Multimodal Generative AI Demystified

Multimodal generative AI has recently seen significant advancements, enabling the creation of realistic images, videos, and audio from textual or other inputs. However, due to the complexity of these models, understanding how they function and how to apply them in practical settings can be challenging. During this talk, Ekaterina will shed light on the inner […]

10 Apr 2024

How to create a product catalogue using AI at UNiDAYS

At UNiDAYS we work with many brands who provide us with product level data for transactions. In this talk we will walk through the end to end steps we took at UNiDAYS to build a system to process this data and turn the text data into a product catalogue, using NLP/NER. We will also look […]

09 Apr 2024

AI Demand Forecasting at ASOS: Building a Scalable Machine Learning System to Forecast for Thousands of Products

Forecasting is an essential tool for planning and decision-making for businesses to maximise growth and profitability in an increasingly competitive environment. Demand forecasting in particular is central to maintaining healthy stock levels for any major retailer, to avoid both going out of stock and overstocking. This challenge is further exacerbated by factors such as sales […]