03 November
12pm, LT308 Huxley
| Title: | Making sense of 20 billion data points a day |
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| Abstract: | Vince will dive into the challenges and complications of gaining valuable business-changing insights from 10-20 billion daily events from a network of 350 million active players. |
| Speaker Details: | Vince Darley
Vince Darley Chief Scientist, King Digital Entertainment plc Vince Darley is the Chief Scientist at King, a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world and creator of games such as Candy Crush Saga. King listed on the NYSE in March 2014 (NYSE: KING). With more than 17 years’ experience in data science, at King, Vince both oversees the development of our team of 70+ data scientists, and is responsible for King’s vision for data and sophisticated analytics technology platforms to serve the business both today and in the future - including downstream and upstream data pipelines, data warehousing, real-time and batch reporting, segmentation and real-time analytics – information which is used across the business to improve the player experience. Prior to his role at King, Vince was Head of Analytics and Optimisation, Supply Chain and Trading Systems for Ocado, where he was responsible for analytics, modeling, analysis, forecasting and optimisation and focused heavily on building the online retailer’s data science & web analytics capabilities to improve website conversion. Vince was also Founder and CEO of Eurobios, a company which focused on applying complexity science concepts, tools and techniques to business issues. At Eurobios, Vince’s clients included BP, Unilver, Ocado, Post Danmark and Deutsche Post. Vince holds a Master of Arts and PhD in Complex Systems from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge. He is also a published author, having co-authored ‘A NASDAQ market Simulation: Insights on a Major Market from the Science of Complex Adaptive Systems.’ |
