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Tesco – Customer basket weights

Tesco – Customer basket weights

Customer basket weight prediction for Tesco Tesco is one of the biggest names in home shopping in the UK. Millions of customers rely on Tesco for their weekly grocery shop, with these numbers only increasing during the pandemic.

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White Ribbon Alliance - Natural Language Processing for Non-Profit

White Ribbon Alliance - Natural Language Processing for Non-Profit

White Ribbon Alliance: Natural Language Processing for Non-Profit The White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) is a Washington, DC-based charity with the goal of making sure every woman survives childbirth, worldwide.

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Boehringer Ingelheim – Finding molecules and proteins in scientific literature

Boehringer Ingelheim – Finding molecules and proteins in scientific literature

We have worked on a number of different projects where a client needed to parse scientific literature and identify occurrences of molecules or proteins.

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CV-Library – Customer conversion on online form

CV-Library – Customer conversion on online form

Customer conversion on online form for CV-Library On a project for CV-Library, we found that the web form that was used for jobseeker signup was very long.

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National Health Service – Predicting employee attrition

National Health Service – Predicting employee attrition

The National Health Service in the UK The UK’s National Health Service is the publicly-funded healthcare system in the UK. It is by far the largest employer in the country, with over 1.

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NLP in pharma: NLP clinical trials analysis

NLP in pharma: NLP clinical trials analysis

NLP in pharma Natural language processing (NLP) is now disrupting the pharmaceutical industry as pharma companies are using NLP to aid decision making at all stages of drug development and go-to-market, from NLP for data redaction and anonymisation of sensitive data, NLP for pharma literature mining, NLP for drug discovery, NLP for drug named entity recognition, and NLP and AI for strategic clinical trial design.

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Pharma – PubMed authorship analysis

Pharma – PubMed authorship analysis

Authorship Analysis for PubMed For one client in the pharma industry, we developed cross-platform desktop tool which allows a user to import search results from PubMed for a particular term, and process them into knowledge graphs.

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Tesco – Vehicle unloading times

Tesco – Vehicle unloading times

Vehicle unloading times for Tesco Tesco had a fleet of vehicles delivering produce at different times of day. They used third party logistics software to plan the delivery schedules, however an element of the delivery schedules that was hard to plan was the unloading time of the vehicle when it arrived at the store.

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Past clients of Fast Data Science

We work with clients all over the world, although the majority of our clients are in the UK, followed by the USA and the rest of Europe.

Industry expertise

We have focused on healthcare and pharmaceuticals but are open to working in a range of industries.

Consulting case studies at Fast Data Science

Some of the projects we have worked on in the past include:

  • A dashboard allowing members of the public to explore survey responses, which have been automatically categorised using machine learning, for White Ribbon Alliance. This dashboard was presented to the United Nations in 2021.
  • An unsupervised learning model to identify recurring topics and errors in the manufacturing and supply chain processes for Boehringer Ingelheim. The errors were written in plain English or the local language of each facility.
  • A predictive model in Microsoft Azure ML which identified which junior doctors (interns/residents) at the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) are at risk of leaving the organisation.
  • A deep learning model, also in Azure ML, to categorise emails from customers for the Information Commissioner’s Office.
  • A neural network based model to extract structured data and statistics from clinical trial protocols, also for Boehringer Ingelheim.
  • A predictive model using neural networks to deduce attributes of jobseekers’ CVs, deployed on the website of CV-Library.
  • A model that predicts customers’ online purchase amounts, for the British supermarket chain Tesco.

Interactive graph of past clients

In our interactive graph you can view and explore where our clients are from and what industries they are in.

More case studies

  • A recommender system to recommend jobs to candidates for CV-Library.
  • A model to predict the unloading time of vehicles, used to improve accuracy of logistics planning for grocery deliveries, also for Tesco.
  • A convolutional neural network based face recognition system, built for Android, iOS and desktop apps and used for biometric security.
  • A voice controlled smart home application.

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