This talk is part of the EGG UK 2018 Conference.
Alexandre Hubert, Data Scientist at Dataiku, recently launched a side project called Human or Company: a web page where anyone can enter a Twitter username and instantly determine whether that username belongs to a person or a company.
In this talk, he explains how he created the model behind the algorithm, the features that influence the classification, and how he built the site to respond to real-time requests. Although this is a low-key and modest side project, it is a great example of building a real-time prediction service with advanced analytics, and it's a way of showing that trendy terms like machine learning or artificial intelligence can be used in simple and small (but effective!) ways.