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Data Aurora in the MENA Region

Data Aurora in the MENA Region. ACHIEVEMENTS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND CHALLENGES. FOUNDERS Here at the AI for S ocial Good Event. BAHIA HALAWI @ halawiBahia. ALI SROUR @SrourAli0. Content. Main Achievements Mena Challenges-landscape assessment Beirut-micro challenges Opportunities. 1.

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Data Aurora in the MENA Region

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  1. Data Aurora in the MENA Region ACHIEVEMENTS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND CHALLENGES

  2. FOUNDERSHere at the AI for Social Good Event BAHIA HALAWI @halawiBahia ALI SROUR @SrourAli0

  3. Content Main Achievements Mena Challenges-landscape assessment Beirut-micro challenges Opportunities

  4. 1. As Data Scientists in the MENA Region

  5. Data Science and Innovation projects since 2013: • Into the Hype • Business Intelligence field • Passion for innovation • Social media/specifically twitter real time follow up • Success stories in major industries • Early adoption • Working with non-techs • Training CSOs and students • Introducing non-traditional working techniques • Innovation • BigData hype • Data Science • How it Started • Real projects

  6. Main Achievements • Media/ Politics/ Campaigning • Data Journalism/Automated storytelling Techniques • Youth/ Unemployment/Capacity building • Social Network Analytics/ Opinion Mining • Retail • Gas and Oil • Marketing

  7. Loyalty Card Analysis to derive purchasing power • Increase revenues through new cross selling and upselling methods • Enhance Brand Reputation by detecting influencers • Real-time targeted & contextual promotions • Personalized product display

  8. Merkel and Grexit: Natural Language Processing Techniques, Named Entity Recognition and Co-occurrence modeling to compare differences in user behaviors over different platforms

  9. Identifying Key Players in the Greek Crisis and the sentiment of the co-mentioned figures

  10. Bogota Instagram Data to discover people’s interests and trending topics • Extract thousands of Instagram images in Bogota city for a specific timeframe. Then we used graph visualization algorithms to detect communities and see co-occurrence of hashtags together. .

  11. The story of falling oil prices: Social Network Analysis • The person co-occurrence network of Oil & Gas news coverage 6 months before the Oil prices dropped (November 2013 till June 2014) • More than 200 different news articles and which co-occurred with at least one other name in 180 or more articles were retained, yielding a network diagram of 91 names and 184 connections.

  12. Job Portals: AI for non-traditional data modeling, analysis and visualizations

  13. In one of our ongoing projects, we are working on opinion mining and deriving proxy socio-economic indicators

  14. In one of our ongoing projects, we are working on opinion mining and deriving proxy socio-economic indicators

  15. 3. Major Challenges Assessing the Mena data science landscape

  16. Challenges and how we approached it

  17. Micro Challenges in Beirut

  18. 4. Opportunities

  19. Opportunities • Arab youth are aware and capable of competing • Academically powerful and great skills • Major research centers and communities • Interdisciplinary projects • Refugees and Resetlement • children and youth of countries with wars (capacity building, services, rules and regulations along with smart urban space strategies)

  20. Collaborations for Social Good 3 We are open to share our knowledge and skills to develop any open source platform 1 2 We are passionate about natural language processing, especially projects related to the Arabic Language We look forward to collaborate on any data driven-innovative project that serves and empowers users

  21. Thanks! www.DataAurora.com

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