TALK: Transforming human-based services to augmented and data-driven

Agenda:
6.20 pm: A talk by Dr George Joseph
7.00 pm: Q&A, discussions and chat

Abstract: "A story on the journey of creating a data-driven solution from a human-based service. The main focus will be on applied data science methods used to work with financial data for information extraction such as, but not limited to, reading free text, describing data oddities mathematically, machine learning"

Bio: "George started as a computational scientist in 2012 and worked at Loughborough University, Nottingham University and did his PhD at Keele University in 2013 in applied data science for biomaterial discovery in Regenerative Medicine. After completing his studies, George took a role in 2017 as a senior data scientist at Liaison specialising in financial consultation and HR analytics. Currently, George is streamlining Liaison's business processes using machine learning for VAT and account payable reviews, soon to move to continuing healthcare and HR all aimed towards Liaison's NHS clients."

Content: Maths, statistics, programming, natural language processing, single value decomposition, machine learning (gradient boosted decision trees - xgboost)

We will be providing food (Pizza) and drinks which are kindly provided by our sponsor (RP Analytics).

Please don’t forget to RSVP so we have an idea about the numbers attending

See you all at University of Nottingham,

Data Science Nottingham team