Ankur Modi shows how basic data and AI have the potential to bring the next revolution in employee engagement. The talk focuses on case studies where StatusToday’s technology was deployed with direct application to understand employee productivity and categorize communication patterns for key clients. Ankur will present StatusToday’s findings of analysing more than 350 million […]
A picture may say a thousand words, but a good chart is only better than a block of text if your audience can remember it. In our information-saturated world our attention is at a premium. In this talk, Sophie looks into the science behind what makes a visualisation memorable, and how you can use these […]
This may pose challenges in building trust in those models, but also affect our society as a whole. Kasia will talk about current ways of evaluating those opaque (‘black-box’) models and their caveats. Then, she’ll introduce Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME) framework for explaining predictions of black-box learners – including text- and image-based models – […]
Lending to small businesses has historically been a task banks have struggled with due to its complexity. Harnessing the latest data sources, technologies and analytical techniques, Funding Circle is succeeding at making the process of lending to small businesses very quick, efficient and customer friendly. You might want to hear more about how an innovative […]
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 automation is critical to achieve very predictive scores because while the machine “runs”, I can focus on other aspects of the modelling process to extract the […]
The unsupervised “2vec” algorithms (e.g. word2vec) learn embeddings extremely quickly, scale well and can create beautiful visualisations. dunnhumby have recently extended these algorithms to work with grocery retail data; helping us to represent products, baskets and customers within the same multidimensional space. In this talk, I’ll explain how this has helped us to understand customer […]
Customer Value Modelling at N Brown by Jane Baxter, Adam McGough, Laura Sealby & Nikos Gkountios N Brown is one of the UK’s biggest digital fashion retailers and the key to our success is building a clear understanding of our customers through data, so we can make them look and feel amazing. In this Masterclass […]
Meeting business goals with optimization algorithms: a masterclass by Arcadis Gen by Daniel Scott This masterclass aims to take you on a journey to explore the world of algorithmic decision-making, how they work, and how they can be used to solve thorny, real world problems. We will explore Genetic Algorithms, Linear Optimisation and Adaptive Pathways. […]
Significance of Model Monitoring with LV by Sonny Hamilton & Dapeng Wang Significance of Model Monitoring. With an ever-changing world and the continued increase of decisions being driven by ML we need to develop sophisticated monitoring to ensure models continue to perform over time, I will take you through my thoughts and look to answer […]