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05 Sep 2022

Introduction to Machine Learning – Predicting Wine Quality

Machine learning and data science have infinite potential to bring you more value from your data. In this session we give you the opportunity to build a machine learning project and by using a real-life use case on Dataiku’s visual interface that can easily be applied to multiple scenarios. Participants will learn how to: – […]

05 Sep 2022

Careers in Tech: Navigating Your Next Best Move

This session, hosted by David Loughlan, covers 4 lightning talks, followed by a Q&A panel discussion.  The Modern Data Scientist (Clemence Burnichon) Over the past 5 years, the role of data scientist has evolved for better or for worse. During this short talk I will walk you through what being a data scientist at Depop […]

05 Sep 2022

How To Be Wrong, And The Trouble It Causes

The practitioners, the public, politicians, and pundits all have different understandings of what machine learning and AI is. And those gaps, and especially around the technology’s shortcomings, are shaping the way it is thought of and used. In this talk, I’ll discuss some of the different technical issues that introduce wrongness into AI, how those […]

05 Sep 2022

Generative Deep Learning – The Key to Unlocking Artificial General Intelligence?

1. A general introduction to Generative Modelling 2. A walkthrough of one of the most utilised generative deep learning models – the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) 3. Examples of state-of-the-art output from Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Transformer based architectures. 4. How generative models can be used in a reinforcement learning setting (World Models paper) 5. […]

05 Sep 2022

A Tasty Byte: How Data Science Drives Customer Choice Without Sacrificing Supply Chain Efficiency

Gousto is a data company that loves food, providing customers with award-winning recipe boxes straight to their front doors. The incomparable choice and convenience that Gousto offers would not be possible without the adoption and application of data science. Choice and convenience can often be in opposition – the more recipes we offer, the harder […]

05 Sep 2022

Never Lose a Good Idea Again: Using Data to Drive the Process of Innovation

For every challenge or problem out there, someone somewhere has a brilliant idea to solve it and creative ideas can change the world. However, without action ideas may be wasted and can be next to useless. For them to be successful, a purpose needs to be found and a driving force created behind them. We’ll […]

05 Sep 2022

Panel Session: Climate Change: Can Tech Save the World?

This session, hosted by Vijay Bhopal, covers 4 lightning talks, followed by a Q&A panel discussion.  What should I do? The largest levers on climate change (Laurence Watson) Data Centres, Energy, Sustainability & Climate Change (John Booth) A quick overview of a data centre, and the energy, sustainability and climate changes issues they are facing. […]

05 Sep 2022

DSF Movie Night – The Great Indoors with Alpha GO

Watch this awesome documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y&t=0s Followed by our informal panel chatting about the film. This event will run as follows: Follow along with the DSF Team or watch the film direct from Youtube for the first part. This will then be followed by a panel of some of our top speakers and an open community […]

05 Sep 2022

Going Postal: How to Craft a Cutting-Edge Route Optimisation Engine In-House

Royal Mail is the UKs national postal service, delivering approx. 15 billion items to nearly 31 million addresses annually. Despite handling more than 50% of British parcels, Royal Mail is on the look out for efficiency in this extremely dynamic and competitive market. While protecting operational cost and enhancing customer satisfaction are our main drivers, […]