Can Artificial Intelligence be used to understand the intricacies of human behaviour? Ankur Modi shows how basic data and AI have the potential to bring the next revolution in operational visibility. The talk focuses on case studies from financial and professional services sectors where StatusToday’s technology was deployed with direct application to understand employee productivity, […]
A series of personal anecdotes that illustrate the key factors that explain data science success.
In a world of deep learning statistical techniques are out of fashion but can still be very effective tools. Twitter’s open source anomaly detection project uses a statistical technique call Seasonal Hybrid ESD. This talk works through the various steps in the algorithm from data preparation and time series decomposition through to finding potentially multiple […]
This talk will showcase how large and complex datasets can be visualised in compelling and informative ways. It will draw from a range of examples that cover everything from commuter flows to baboons, cyclists to songbirds in order to demonstrate how maps and data visualisations offer a window into big data. Many of the selected […]
In this talk I will introduce the unique requirements and exciting challenges presented by mining social media for high-quality, user-generated content. I will outline how we approach these both as data scientists and big data engineers, finally sharing first-hand experience of building tooling and architecture that supports rapid model development.
We believe that data should be at the heart of every decision at Skyscanner, so it’s important that our engineers have the tools to seamlessly log the data that will help them with those decisions. In this talk, we discuss the approach we’ve taken to enable this and reflect on some of the challenges and […]
This talk investigates when users create profiles in different social networks, whether they are redundant expressions of the same persona, or they are adapted to each platform. Using the personal webpages of 116,998 users on About.me, we identify and extract matched user profiles on several major social networks including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. We […]
Deep learning is without a doubt among the hottest topics in data science today. Computers are now more powerful than ever, and as a result, deep learning has been applied successfully by academics during the past few years. However, it is still unclear how difficult it is for businesses to apply it. We want to […]
You may have been hearing a lot of buzz around Big Data, Apache Spark, Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and Apache Zeppelin. What’s the fuss about, and how can you benefit from these state of the art technologies? In this highly interactive session, you will learn how to leverage Spark to rapidly mine a large […]