Title: Use Your Data to Mitigate Climate Change Speaker: Brittany Salas and Elise Cannon of Sadu Abstract: The applications of data driven solutions to the climate crisis can support the process by which individuals gain a greater understanding of their personal role in the climate crisis. Global emissions must drop to 50% by 2030 and […]
Title: Using Data to Benefit the Environment Speaker: Lubomila Jordanova of PlanA.Earth Abstract: Data about our way of living, consuming, and producing is widely available and piling up. But are we making the most of it to make the best decisions not only for us but for our planet? Lubomila from Plan A will tell […]
Transforming Any Space into a Therapeutic Rehabilitation Space by Ben Wilkins A.I. Transforming any space into a therapeutic rehabilitation space. Conditions like arthritis and back pain are collectively known as musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. They affect over 18m people in the UK and account for £100bn of the annual cost to the UK in treatment and […]
Title: Tracking the Data Revolution Speaker: Tim Davies of Global Data Barometer The Global Data Barometer is a critical new benchmark of data for the public good. The first edition of the study in 2021 will map data governance, capabilities, data availability, and the use and impact of data across more than 100 countries using […]
Using AI to make people healthier with Vitality by Robbie Coats & Arnab Debnath Using AI to make people healthier. Vitality is a financial services company with a core purpose of helping our customers live longer, healthier, and more financially secure lives. Vitality is a data-driven business and Data Science plays a leading role in […]
Where science meets art – How ML can improve customer experience and engagement by Cedric Fotso Deffo & Lloyd Green PART 1: Customer Engagement – where science meets art. Customer Engagement might seem like a buzz phrase. Most companies today believe that understanding and measuring engagement is important, but there is no standard definition or […]
How We Optimised Hero Images using Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms by Gyula Magyar, Humiun Miah & Fedor Parfenov How We Optimised Hero Images using Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms. In this masterclass, we introduce the multi-armed bandit (MAB) optimization campaign we ran on Hotels.com™. The objective was to find the best possible main image (also called ‘hero image’) […]
The Invisible Skill: Shaping Business Strategy in a Data Driven Manner by Soumya Kavi The top skills to be a great data scientist usually involve technical skills such as coding, statistics and machine learning. But the invisible skill that enables the business to uncover the full potential of data science is influencing and shaping business […]
Spark Optimisation: Building an Efficient Lakehouse by Oleksandra Bovkun Spark optimisation: building an efficient Lakehouse. Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. A lakehouse is a new, open architecture that combines the best elements of data lakes and data warehouses. Lakehouses are enabled by a new open and standardized system design: […]