Academy of Data Science in Finance

This year's 2021 held a panel discussion about the major and news in the services with:

- Roey Mechrez, PhD (CTO and co-founder of BeyondMinds)
- Francesco Maria Delle Fave (executive director in machine learning products at Goldman Sachs)
- Steve Flinter (VP of AI and machine learning at Mastercard Labs R&D)
- Hui Wang (VP of data science, PayPal)

Check out this highly interesting discussion via the link below ⬇️

Execs from MasterCard, PayPal, and Goldman Sachs discuss major AI trends in the finance industry at Transform 2021 At Transform, panelists discuss how AI is being used in security, fraud detection, identity, personalization, and internal efficiencies.

The intention of automating a redundant task. Can you relate? 😉 Happy Tuesday!


Image source: xkcd.com/1319

"The industry is the one that expects the highest for investing in , after the logistics industry."

This article on Global Banking & Finance Review highlights some examples on how the finance can make use of and which could arise from it. It also claims that "it is incredibly to find senior financial data scientists". Do you agree?

Happy monday! 🙌

Examples of Data Science In Finance Let’s look at a news headline from Nasdaq:

On June 3rd, the Amazon Web Services will take place and will bring together industry-leading and to dive deep in to the , , and of machine learning. Make sure to save your spot and register below ⬇️

AWS Machine Learning Summit Machine learning (ML) is one of the most disruptive technologies we will encounter in our generation, but we’re just getting started. The Machine Learning Summit brings together industry-leading scientists, AWS customers, and experts to dive deep in to the art, science, and impact of machine learn...

"If you want to work in some of the most interesting and highest -adding jobs in [...] you should position yourself towards the of the " stack." said Tom Taylor, head of alpha technology at investment business Man Numeric (Man Group) at the recent & in Trading conference.

"...the new most valuable are those who can build custom or that allow colleagues to access data directly." 📊

Do you agree? Read more on https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2021/03/data-science-jobs-in-finance
Happy Friday! 👏

Image Source: Man Numeric

Perhaps the right question is, “which or industries aren’t using .” is what Dr. Michael J. Garbade highlights in this interesting interview on how AI is changing to impact the future of .

What do you think, which sectors will be most disrupted by AI? Finance, or perhaps Healthcare? Let us know! 💡

https://www.benzinga.com/interview/21/02/19680768/top-6-most-in-demand-tech-skills-for-2025

Let's start this with a summarizing some of the most interesting developments in throughout the last year. 📰 The State of AI report 2020 shows analyses from the areas:

• : Technology breakthroughs and capabilities.
• : Supply, demand and concentration of AI talent.
• : Areas of commercial application for AI and its business impact.
• : Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the emerging geopolitics of AI.
• : What we believe will happen and a performance review to keep us honest.

Be sure to check it out and let us know what you think in the comments. Have a great week!

State of AI Report 2020 The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. Read and download here.

Join us at 5pm for our fourth after-work with our guest speaker Christoph Scheuch, Head of Data Science @ wikifolio.com

Christoph will provide some into the and of and sketch ongoing at wikifolio (e.g. performance measurement, personalized content).

🌐 Follow this link to join our event: https://lnkd.in/gsH7zfP
🔑 Event password: dsfacademy

🔔🔜 Less than one month to go until our after-work , on each of ! Be sure to join us for industry talks around in .

We will be having guest speakers from OpenMetrics, Trality, Mostly AI and Wikifolio, followed by student lightning talks with speakers from Cisco and Lumos Student Data Consulting.

🎟️ Be sure to safe your spot and register here https://lnkd.in/ekAQq2p
ℹ️ More information on our event can be found here https://lnkd.in/eXpsgG6

November Virtual After-Work Sessions The 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 is looking forward to welcoming you at its 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 on each Thursday of 𝗡𝗼...

Please be invited to take part in our poll where we would like to know "which frameworks you have been using for your in the past year?". 📊

The will be published on he 24th of September - have a great rest of the week!

Monthly Poll - September 2020

It's time again to share with you the of our monthly for 2020. 📊❔ We asked you "what did you typically in the past year?".

Out of all our respondents, 38,5% mostly analyzed datasets containing 1 to 100 million .

Thanks to all our participants! 🔜 Our next will go on the 14th of .