Summary: 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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/datafuturology/message
