DSF Day 4 - Data Science and e-commerce hosted by the Trainline
London, UK
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DSF Day 4 - Solving E-commerce challenges with DS hosted by Trainline
Join us for an evening of Data Science talks focused on solving E-commerce challenges. The evening will consist of two talks, one from our hosts Trainline, the other from Marco Bertetti Data Scientist at Skyscanner.
With applications and websites growing more complex than ever, Marco will discuss important new approaches to surface the right content to the right users as many time as possible.
Schedule:
6.00pm - Doors open
6.30pm- Marco Bertetti
7.15pm - Drinks food & networking
7.45pm – Dan Taylor & Sam Taylor
8.30pm - Networking
9.00pm - Close
Address: 120 Holborn, London EC1N 2TD
Marco Bertetti – Data Scientist at Skyscanner
Summary: Contextual multi-armed bandits for widget optimization. Mobile applications and websites are growing more complex than ever, with new graphics, functionalities and widgets being added every day. In this ever-growing space it is important to develop new approaches to surface the right content to the right users as many time as possible. While A/B test is a widely used and solid technique, it is not always viable when the number of possible choices is very large, hundreds or thousands of tests would be required to find the best option for each situation. This talk will firstly provide an introduction to the muti-armed bandit problem. Then, a practical comparison between bandits and classic A/B testing will be shown. Closing with a practical Bandit implementation at Skyscanner.
Bio: Marco Bertetti is a Data Scientist at Skyscanner based in London, who has worked both in using reinforcement learning for mobile app content, and in shaping the structure and integrity of Skyscanner’s logging and data. Before joining Skyscanner, he has worked on different problems for a variety of companies ranging from tech startup to big retailer. He obtained a degree in Globalization, International Institutions and Economic Development at the University of Trento before moving to London. In his free time, he likes photography, cooking and rock climbing.
Dan Taylor - Data Engineering Manager
Bio: Dan runs the Data Engineering team at Trainline.He's passionate about applying engineering principles to data products: building cool stuff that _actually runs in production_.He's headed up Data Engineering teams in such exciting fields as insurance comparison, telecoms network optimisation and supermarket refrigeration, and asserts that 90% of data challenges are the same across all industries.
Sam Taylor - Lead Machine Learning Engineer
Bio: Sam is the Lead Machine Learning Engineer in the Data Science team at Trainline. He has worked on many of the customer facing data products at Trainline from Price Prediction to BusyBot and recommendation engines. He enjoys deploying data products at scale that positively impact the lives of Trainline’s customers. Previously he has worked in fintech and telecoms, working with machine learning to optimise the customer experience.
Summary: Enabling Real Time Data Science in E-Commerce. The architecture of modern E-commerce companies typically revolves around micro-services, this often causes a challenge for Data Scientists who need to pull data from disparate sources to carry out their day to day work. This pushes the typical 80% of time spent on data exploration, closer to 100%, resulting in less time spent solving the customer problem. At Trainline, we have solved this using event sourcing and streaming technology. We will talk about how this is practically carried out from a data engineering to data product development perspective. We will then explore advancing this technology, giving the ability to put realtime data products into production and the hands of our customers.
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Start:
2019-04-11T18:00:00+01:00
End:
2019-04-11T21:00:00+01:00
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