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

Also, catch me at the Chief Data & Analytics Officer Conference in Melbourne on September 3-5, 2018 https://chiefdataanalyticsofficermelbourne.com

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