Mostly Harmless' Machine Learning: Use Case from Healthcare from a Banking Hackathon

Featuring Violeta Misheva

Last year ABN AMRO bank organised a hackathon, Beyond Banking during which time the bank opened a number of its APIs. It was a very fun event!

Violeta participated with a team of her colleagues and they worked on a problem from the healthcare domain. They were given data from patients diagnosed...

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Ethical Artificial Intelligence

Featuring Hollie Lubbock

There is no doubt that artificial intelligence systems are a powerful agent of change in society. As this technology becomes increasingly prevalent, transforming your understanding of people and society, issues around ethics and regulation arise.

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Shipping Data Science Products with R and Docker

Featuring Steph Locke

There's no point being a data scientist if your work never makes it to production. This session explores a solution for getting your code live, scalable, and easily managed.

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Deep Learning for Recommender Systems

Featuring Oliver Gindele

Recommender systems are widely used by e-commerce and services companies worldwide to provide the most relevant items to their users.

Over the past few years, deep learning has demonstrated breakthrough advances in image recognition and natural language processing. Meanwhile, new approaches have...

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Informing the Caterpillar While Being Mindful of the Crocodile

Featuring Samantha Ahern

Students' mental wellbeing is a growing area of concern for HEIs. You have seen large increases in students declaring a mental health condition upon admission to UK universities. Is this just the tip of the iceberg?

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Keynote: Cluster Consensus: When Aeron Met Raft

Featuring Martin Thompson

Aeron was designed to be an understandable messaging system, it was also designed to be fast, very fast.

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When Big data and Data Science Meet Credit Decisioning

Featuring Roberta Cretella

While financial companies use Data Science in their fraud detection models, they do not use it in their credit decisioning models which, instead, use classification and regression to assess the risk of lending to individuals.

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TensorFlow.js : Bringing ML into the Browser?

Featuring Brian Sletten

The numerics of machine learning seem like the least likely thing you would expect to run in a browser. The recently-released TensorFlow.js will provide exactly that, however. This Javascript implementation of the TensorFlow APIs is backed by GPU-accelerated WebGL and the optimizations available...

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Lightning Talk: Big Data and Cognitive Neuroscience: Challenges, Resolutions, and Alternatives

Featuring Jak Maloret

Cognitive Neuroscience studies the mental processes underlying cognition and behaviour. By interlinking behavioural studies from Psychology with state-of-the-art Neuroimaging methods, we are able to gain insight into how processes such as decision-making and learning evolve.

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Keynote: What can Deep Learning Reveal About Beautiful Places?

Featuring Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe

Governments around the world spend a great deal of money creating and preserving beautiful places, and you might seek out such locations when desiring rest and relaxation. But what are beautiful places composed of?

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