April Meet-up

Schedule

1800--1830h: Refreshments

1830--1835h: Welcome

1835--1900h: Hervé Vicente, Asset Performance Manager @ Northumbrian Water

Data Science in the water industry: Challenges and case study
Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) treats and delivers water for 4.7 million customers and manages 450 treatment works, 1354 pumping stations and 56,600 km of water and sewer pipes. The operation of such a large asset base requires to make short and long term decisions every day that can impact the generations to come. It is in that context that the Asset Modelling team provides tools and insights to help achieve NWG’s outcomes. In this presentation I will talk about:

• Northumbrian Water and the role and objectives of the Modelling team;
• The variety of topics we are exposed to, our common data and modelling challenges and some the tools we use;
• The development of a successful decision support tool driven by a Machine Learning model combined with many other data processing elements to prevent river pollution.

1900--1920h: Intermission & changeover

1920--1945h: Darren Rhodes, Principal Scientist @ CPI

What Star to Steer by? Or, Using R to Navigate Data at CPI
Abstract (TBC)

1945--2000h: News and Announcements

News and Announcements

Have a news item, or announcement you'd like to make about upcoming data events or job opportunities in the North East? Comment below or email us at **neds@jumpingrivers.com** and we'll do our best to circulate this information at the end of the session.

NB Our meetup talks and workshops are now separate meetup.com events, and as such should be RSVP'd to separately. This event is for our April talks. If you would also like to attend our April workshop, please remember to RSVP to the workshop event! Thanks.