Benjamin Fields
Head Of Data
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Fields is Head of Data with 18 years’ experience blending academic research and product-focused data science to improve user-facing systems, especially music recommendation and playlist prediction. He has led data teams at Laka and the BBC, building predictive models and workflow analytics across heterogeneous production systems and data pipelines. His background in music informatics, DSP and semantic web technologies gives him a rare mix of signal-processing rigor and practical recommender engineering. Benjamin is curious about food and drink data and the Web of Data, applying linked-data thinking to real-world consumption questions. An occasional researcher and competitive cyclist who DJs, he thrives at the intersection of research, engineering and delightful user experiences.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of LondonMS Music Engineering Technology, MS Music Engineering Technology at University of Miami
Github Skills (23)
anonymous8
network-graph7
python-interface7
igraph6
mathematics6
network-analysis5
python5
random-walk5
graph-algorithms5
graph-theory4
complex-networks3
graph-analysis3
prediction-model3
recommendation-engine2
twitter2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gearmonkey/consume-rBeer
Jan 2012 - Nov 2015
Contributions:71 commits, 4 pushes in 3 years 11 months
gearmonkey/pyrg
Feb 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:1 release, 23 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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