Imagine this.
You have a garden, and you’ve spent years growing apple trees. You harvest the beautiful juicy red fruits every season.
And then, you leave them.
You don’t eat them. You have so many of them. You don’t know what to do with them. You’re not even sure if you like apples, and no one else wants them either. They rot away in your basket every time, but, for some reason, you keep harvesting and keep growing.
Sounds like a waste of time right? You would never do something like that!
Then, why would you do the same with your data?
Meet Carol Hargreaves
Carol Hargreaves is the Director of the Data Analytics Consulting Centre and an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the National University of Singapore.
Here, Carol and her team help clients to generate economic, social, and scientific value from data using cutting-edge techniques and advanced data analytics strategies. They also provide hands-on workshops – both public and customized – to help clients keep up to date with new data analytics techniques.
Carol’s Previous Experiences in Data Analytics
An Analytics and Business Intelligence Professional, Carol has over 30 years of experience in lead roles in multiple industries, including Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, and Education. Carol has also presented at multiple conferences and workshops on data analytics topics.
- NUS Data Analytics Consulting Centre (DACC) 2021 Singapore – HR Attrition Workshop
- NUS Data Analytics Consulting Centre (DACC) 2020 Singapore – Data Analytics for Customer Insights
- Enigma Analytics Leaders Summit 2017 Malaysia – Data Cleaning & Preparation Workshop
- Enigma Analytics Leaders Summit 2016 Indonesia – Credit Risk Modelling Workshop
Prior to her current role at the National University of Singapore, Carol founded her own company with a focus on helping clients understand their business challenges and problems in order to identify the relevant data that will help solve their business problems. Over the years, she has also been the Chief of Business Analytics at the National University of Singapore, the Quantitative Methods Manager at IMS Health, a Statistical Modelling Analyst at FOXTEL, and more.
Research and development
In this exclusive analytics podcast episode, Carol shares:
- Carol’s 6 steps to building a power customer analytics system
- Research topics from the financial and healthcare industries that have stuck with her
- Her role as the Director of the Data Analytics Consulting Centre and an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the National University of Singapore
- Topics that she often speaks on in workshops
If you are a senior executive in private sectors outside of the USA and interested in learning more on how to incorporate data science into your company, this is the episode you do not want to miss out on.
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Find out more about Carol
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What is one book that she would gift to her younger self:
- Deep Learning with Python by Francois Chollet (recommended for upcoming data scientist experts)
In this book there are good practice examples with applications in computer vision, natural-language processing, and generative models. By the time you finish with this book, you’ll have the knowledge and hands-on skills to apply deep learning in your own projects.- Understanding convolutional neural networks (convnets)
- Using data augmentation to mitigate overfitting
- Using a pretrained convnet to do feature extraction
- Fine-tuning a pretrained convnet
- Visualizing what convnets learn and how they make classification decisions
- Variational autoencoders
- Understanding generative adversarial networks
Twitter:
Website:
- https://carolhargreaves.com/
- https://www.stat.nus.edu.sg/consulting/data-analytics-consulting-centre/
- https://www.nus.edu.sg/
Publications:
- https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=_qTsmOkAAAAJ&hl=en
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carol-Hargreaves
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5522-4058
- https://blogs.oracle.com/ai-and-datascience/post/6-steps-to-building-a-powerful-customer-analytics-system
- https://nus.academia.edu/CHargreaves
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhargreaves/detail/recent-activity/posts/
Speaking Events:
- http://www.enigma-conferences.com/analytics-leaders-summit-in-malaysia-workshop
- https://m.facebook.com/events/410036750607235
- https://d.facebook.com/dataanalyticsconsultingcentre/photos/a.2003126699923567/3038630929706467/
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- E86 – Aleksandar Linc-Djordjevic – Changing The Underappreciated Data Science Scene of Europe
- E73 – Katja Hanewald – From the Frontier of Population Ageing Research
- E28 – Sanjit Dang – Investing in Artificial Intelligence for Tomorrow
- E2 – Dr. Warwick Graco – The Use of Data Science in Government
Now a word from our sponsor…
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