DataKind UK is a charity that helps social change organisations use data science, through volunteer-led projects. Today we will give you a taste of some of things we’ve learnt from working with charities over the past 6 years. We will discuss how to assess readiness for a data project (data maturity), how to define project […]
Recommender systems help users find something great for them from among huge numbers of movies, songs or products. For a company like ASOS, this becomes increasingly critical as we want to provide great and frictionless user experiences to customers that help find the right products amongst the 130,00 fashion items available. We will look at […]
An opportunity to explore Scala, and why it is truly a “Data Engineers language”. Scala can be a daunting language to learn, especially if you’re want to take full advantage of the Functional Programming paradigm. However, with the right foundation Scala can prove to be an invaluable tool in a Data Engineers/Scientists belt In this […]
The world is becoming more dynamic and making use of real-time data is becoming increasingly important. We see a growing number of services becoming ‘on-demand’, including food, transportation, delivery etc. This trend will only continue to grow. The current state of the art in machine learning cannot perform in this environment, since it just relies […]
Join the award-winning Anders Sörman-Nilsson for his new talk, Beyond Corona the 2nd Renaissance. If digital disruption was the dress rehearsal for your business model’s transformation, COVID19 became the burning platform. By now, we know that this virus has wreaked havoc on lives and livelihoods. None of us, data scientist or otherwise, has been immune […]
This session, hosted by Ben Byford, covers 4 lightning talks, followed by a Q&A panel discussion. Traditional Ethics for Alternative Data (Sophie Shawdon) As data-driven thinking becomes the norm, how do you stand out from the crowd? In this talk, Sophie will cover some of the ways alternative data is changing the world for good, […]
Frameworks are one of the best ways for Data Engineers to accelerate their work and automate pre-defined design patterns. Frameworks also enable Data Engineers to increase the level of complexity of their datasets, while maintaining standards, and reducing errors. In this session, we will cover some of the basics of thinking in frameworks, and how […]
One of the recent powerful advancements in natural language processing is transfer learning. Transfer learning refers to a machine learning methodology where a sophisticated model which has been trained for a generic task can be “transferred” to another task. In this workshop, we will introduce the notion of deep transformers, looking specifically at the BERT […]
In just over 100 years our understanding of reality, nature and the world about us, has transited from the simple, linear and causal, to the complex, non-linear, and confounding. As a species we now understand something of the scale of the problems we face and the limitations our innate abilities. In addition, our mathematical and […]