Lydia Monnington, Data Science Lead, Google DeepMind
Lydia’s story begins on the trading floor of an investment bank, where she realised building models of companies was much more interesting than trading. From there an analytics career blossomed, using data to understand businesses and make better decisions.
In her role as Data Science Lead at Google DeepMind Lydia organises, models, and deploys data to guide Google DeepMind strategy & decisions.
Having graduated with a 1st in Maths from Oxford University, Lydia has held data and analytics roles at Ocado, GHGSat, Stuart, and Meta.
In these roles Lydia has designed and implemented experimentation processes, forecast company growth, planned a warehouse, defined customer segmentations, identified issues in stock control processes to reduce missing items by two thirds, and built a product from scratch, project managing and leading the data work.
Lydia believes that charities should have access to the same data driven insights as businesses. Lydia is a director of the Stemettes, who inspire and support girls, young women and non-binary young people in STEM and volunteers with DataKind who help charities, local government, and social enterprises to use data science. Lydia enjoys sharing her data knowledge. She has spoken at the Data Science Festival, Data & AI London and London Analytics Meetup and writes a blog at https://datadeciphered.