The Fifth Elephant winter edition 2019
Winter edition of India's most renowned conference on big data and data science
The Fifth Elephant is rated as India’s best conference on big data, data science and application of data to real-life use cases.
It is a conference for practitioners, by practitioners. The Fifth Elephant completed its seventh edition in Bangalore, on 26 and 27 July 2018. The Bangalore edition caters to data and ML engineers, architects, technologists, data scientists, product managers, researchers and business decision-makers.
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Thuong Nguyen
@thuong
Advancing Data Science for Financial Inclusion: Trusting Social's Journey
Submitted Jan 15, 2019
Technical level:
Intermediate
Traditional approach to Credit Scoring requires financial histories of customers. As a result, it keeps unbanked customers, especially in developing economies, out of the loop. To solve this problem, Trusting Social utilizes alternative sources of data to assess creditworthiness of the whole population to deliver financial access for all.
In this talk, we will discuss about the motivation for alternative credit scoring, Data Science challenges that we faced during our journey as well as the insights.
Outline
- Introduction to credit scoring
- Limitation of credit scoring
- Alternative credit scoring
- Data Science challenges in alternative credit scoring
- How Trusting Social works?
Requirements
None
Speaker bio
Thuong is a research scientist working on advance machine learning and big data to solve financial problem such as credit scoring. His machine learning and data science experience spreads across multiple fields including mobile and social networks, pervasive computing, Internet of Things, e-health, and finance, in both academia and industrial environments. His research works have been published in several leading conferences and journals.
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