#16 Apollo Gerolymbos - Head of Data Analytics
Data Futurology - Leadership And Strategy in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science
English - August 14, 2018 20:08 - 1 hour - 67.1 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsBusiness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode we speak with Apollo Gerolymbos who is the Head of Data Analytics at the London Fire Brigade. We speak about:
- the applications of data science in firefighting
- how the London Fire Brigade (LFB) uses data to preempt and minimise fires
- the end to end data science process at the LFB
- how their data affects laws, policies and citizens’ lives
- how Natural Language Processing (NLP) and text analysis is used on the reports of the most serious fires to identify new patterns of high risk factors
- the importance of identifying bottlenecks and weak points in the availability of your service
- why it’s important for data scientists to educate non-data people in their organisations and much, much more!
Show notes: https://www.datafuturology.com/podcast/16
Apollo is based in London, UK
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Also, catch me at the Chief Data & Analytics Officer Conference in Melbourne on September 3-5, 2018
https://chiefdataanalyticsofficermelbourne.com
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