Peter Bleackley

PhD

Director

Playful Technology Limited

Country or state

United Kingdom

Available to

Europe

City

Horsham

Fee

Languages

English

Volunteer

Yes

Personal Details

Bio

Dr Peter Bleackley is a self-employed data scientist. He first became interested in Artificial Intelligence while working at the BBC's Research and Development department and has since worked for clients ranging from startups to multinationals. He is particularly interested in the field of natural language processing, and does citizen scientist work on Kaggle. His talks on the topic has have been well-received at data science meetups.

Current position (2)

Director

Playful Technology Limited

Contract Data Scientist

Amey

Degrees (2)

Spectroscopy and Variablity of Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies (PhD)

University of Leicester

1996 to 2000

MSci Physics

University of Durham

1992 to 1996

Presentations

Presentations (1)

The Grammar of Truth and Lies

I present a simple classifier that uses grammatical and stylistic features to distinguish between fake news and reliable journalism.

Past talks (3)

The Grammar of Truth and Lies

Sussex Data Science 11th Meetup

Brighton

February 20, 2020

The Grammar of Truth and Lies

PyData London 57th Meetup

London

June 4, 2019

is it a Mushroom or is it a Toadstool

Pydata London 46th Meetup

London

July 3, 2018

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Peter's speech on The Grammar of Truth and Lies was engaging, thoughtful and personal. His thoughts are articulated well and he is great at explaining the material significance of technical concepts.
Finn Janson
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Why choose me?

Freelance data scientist with wide experience of Natural Language Processing and AI.