Hi, I am Phil

Filippos Pappas

Data Scientist at IBM

I am a passionate Data Scientist who loves to get his hands dirty with messy data and challenging projects. From my point of view, data are not only meant for discovering trends, but also to extract knowledge and discover alternative ideas. Each dataset has something to teach you.
This perspective led me to gain characteristics of strong communication, effective consulting and outside-of-the-box thinking. In each project, I expect to be challenged and in combination with my problem solving interest, to dive deeper and deeper into the analytics area.

Curious
Team Player
Communicative
Fast Learner
Confident
Problem Solver

Skills

Experience

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Data Scientist at IBM

May 2019 - Jan 2021, Groningen, Netherlands

Our Cognitive & Analytics department is focused on accelerating businesses by discovering insights or future trends in clients’ data with the usage of Machine Learning tools and/or IBM’s Watson.

European Union

Oct 2020 - Jan 2021

  • Pre-processed EU’s text data in Python for optimising the search results of Watson Discovery Service
  • Tested out-of-the-box techniques such as TF/iDF with various N-Grams and Words Embeddings for keywords generation that will improve the search accuracy of the delivered solution.
  • Deployed the solution in IBM Cloud
Client under NDA

Mar 2020 - Jul 2020

ABN AMRO

Oct 2019 - Dec 2019

  • Responsible for designing and devloping an enterprise-level unsupervised learning solution for the bank’s chatbot intent classification. Solution was deployed in AWS and it is been used bi-weekly to discover new client intents.
  • Hyper-parameter tuning among clustering algorithms such as Gaussian Mixture Models, LDA and NMF to determine the optimal for discovering new user intents
  • Exploratory data analysis of the user logs in order to understand better the data beforing feeding them to the algorithms
NATO

May 2019 - Oct 2019

  • Data wrangling and analysis of the received text data (job descriptions)
  • Worked with spaCy library for natural language processing
  • Used stemming and tokenization pre-processing steps for data quality improvement

Student at University of Peloponnese

Sept 2011 - Oct 2018, Tripoli, Greece

MSc in Computer Science

Oct 2016 - Oct 2018

BSc in Informatics and Telecommunications

Sept 2011 - Sept 2016

  • Thesis - Management and display research group data
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Projects

News Classification (under development)
News Classification (under development)
Owner Dec 2020 - Present

A machine learning model that auto-classifies news articles

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Quote Finder (under development)
Quote Finder (under development)
Owner July 2020 - Present

A tool that searches for text quotes by exctracting the text from the images

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Extracting emotions from songs with Machine Learning Algorithms (TBA)
MSc Thesis Feb 2017 - Dec 2018

The aim of this thesis is to examine the emotional state of songs based on their lyrics alone, in order to observe if the lyrics are enough to discern emotions through music.

Details
Web Scraper (under development)
Web Scraper (under development)
Owner July 2020 - Present

A tool that scraping specific websites to extract data that will be used as inputs to my machine learning algorithms

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Progress bar in Python (under development)
Progress bar in Python (under development)
Owner July 2020 - Present

A custom progress bar for your Python IDEs or notebooks

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Recent Posts

Achievements

Google Cloud Platform Certification

D3.js Certification

Scrum Certified

UiPath Certified

MSc Thesis Presentation

Graduation

IEEE Student Ambassador