The Power of NLP: Transforming Text into Actionable Intelligence

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is revolutionizing the way we interact with and derive insights from textual data. By harnessing the power of NLP, organizations can transform vast amounts of unstructured text into actionable intelligence, enabling smarter decision-making and more efficient operations. This session explores the fundamentals of NLP, its key techniques such as tokenization, sentiment analysis, and named entity recognition, and real-world applications across various industries. Join us to uncover how NLP is bridging the gap between human language and machine understanding, driving innovation, and unlocking new potentials in the digital age.

Schedule:
⏰ 19:00 - 19:15 Intro to Women Coding Community
⏰ 19:15 - 19:45: Talk by Busra Ecem Sakar
⏰ 19:45 - 20:00: Q&A

Speaker: Busra Ecem Sakar | LinkedIn
Busra Ecem Sakar is a seasoned Data Scientist and Senior Data Analyst with over 10 years of experience in data analysis and advanced analytics. With a strong foundation in Statistics from her bachelor's degree and dual master’s degrees in Biostatistics and Big Data & Data Science Technology, Busra excels in SQL for data analysis and is proficient in R and Python, applying machine learning and NLP techniques such as TF-IDF and Word2Vec. Her expertise in managing data ETL processes with Airflow, Python, and PyCharm has ensured high data accuracy and efficiency.
In her role as a Senior Data Analyst, Busra has led impactful projects that have significantly enhanced consumer engagement and driven substantial business growth. Her diverse experience spans the pharmaceuticals, banking, digital marketing, and software industries. Notably, during her master’s studies, she analysed participant engagement in online sessions through advanced NLP-based text transcript analysis.

Host: Silke Nodwell | LinkedIn
Silke holds an MSci Mathematics, First Class Honours, from Imperial College London. She currently works as a data scientist at TAC Index, where she manages the data quality of 15+ client companies and develops internal quality tools. In addition to her data scientist role, Silke is a Lead at Women Coding Community, where she runs the bookclub, contributes to the technical blog, and organises inspirational talks.

Co-Host: Irina Kamalova
👩🏻 Co-host: Irina Kamalova | LinkedIn
Irina is a Founder of Women Coding Community and a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Revolut.
Her experience as a Software Engineer included working with large projects, search engines, distributed systems, performance issues, and huge data storage.
She’s working at Revolut and building a platform for retail products. That includes support services to handle 40 million clients, huge throughput and provide law latency for data flow. Irina mentoring mid-level engineers, constantly helps her team to tackle the extra mile and help the company to improve an intervening process, onboarding new hires, navigating interns and running knowledge-sharing activities. As a cherry on top, she helped to launch the inner Revolut Women Guild “RevWomen”.

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