Project Data Analytics Community Newsletter July 2020
We produce this newsletter to keep you plugged into the very latest developments, building capacity and understanding within the project delivery community.
P3M
Project, Portfolio and Programme Management
A Route to Data Driven Project Delivery in 2025 05/07/2020 - By Martin Paver Our CEO has written a blog on a route to data driven project delivery in 2025. A useful overview of current status and some of the challenges that will need to be tackled. Read more ...
The Future of Contracting 03/07/2020 - By Dev Amratia An interesting blog from nPlan on how to reinvent how we contract for projects, rewarding those who inject realism, provide increased confidence/certainty in delivery. Read more ...
Chinese construction firms using AI to keep tabs on workers 06/07/2020 - By South China Morning Post Construction sites across China have been using an AI tool that takes feeds from construction site CCTV feeds to monitor workers’ behavior. The tool has been used to improve the health and safety of workers, as well as to spot loitering on site, and send alerts to managers. There are obvious privacy concerns with this sort of technology, particularly as it relies on facial recognition technology, but it is likely less invasive tools similar to this will start to appear more regularly on sites with a focus on worker health and safety. Read more ...
Construction Data For Facilities Of The Future 24/06/2020 - By Facility Executive Magazine An interesting article on the importance of good quality data in construction to allow us to benefit from analytics, AI and automation solutions. Currently a lot of data is siloed and part of disjointed workflows, and this needs to be fixed before we can see the benefits of this data. Read more ...
Energy
Clustering considerations for machine learning 02/07/2020 - By Digital Energy Journal A really interesting article on some of the difficulties encountered when working with datasets from the energy industry, and some of the different dimensionality reduction techniques that can be used to extract insights from this data. Read more ...
Alstom launches AI solution to enforce social distancing on trains 01/07/2020 - By Railway Technology Alstom have introduced an AI tool to monitor passenger traffic and flows. This solution is designed to assist with maintaining social distancing on trains. What is particularly interesting about this tool is the large variety of different data sources it uses – mobile network traffic, camera feeds, weight measurements, ticketing machines and more. Read more ...
'Intelligent' pothole cameras keeping workers safe during Covid-19 26/06/2020 - By Hertfordshire County Council Hertfordshire County Council are using a camera on their vehicles that is connected to an AI tool that identifies road defects and logs them. This tool has been particularly beneficial over the last few months as it has allowed a single driver to be in the car at any one time so that social distancing can be maintained. Read more ...
The next cohort of the project data analyst apprenticeship starts of 3rd August. It is free for most companies. Read more ...
Data
AI & Machine Learning
Introducing a New, Large-Scale Dynamic Data Set to Push the Limits of Natural Language Processing 03/07/2020 - By Facebook AI Facebook have release a new dataset for natural language processing tasks. The reason for this new dataset is to counter current problems that exist with static benchmarks that have been unable to keep up with the progress in the NLP field. A link to the full paper and the dataset can be found at the bottom of the article. Read more ...
Extracting Structured Data from Templatic Documents 12/06/2020 - By Google AI A solution from Google to try and improve our ability to extract structured data from templatic documents, such as receipts and invoices. The approach first relies on an OCR model to extract text from the document, and it then runs something called a candidate generator to identify the pieces of text that might relate to a specific field in the document. Read more ...
Look out for details on Project:Hack7 - coming soon!
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In 2017 Projecting Success founded the Project Data Analytics Community. It is now the UK's largest community of project delivery and data science professionals. Existing purely for the benefit of its members, it seeks to push the boundaries of project delivery into a whole new realm. In lockdown we have transitioned to hosting webinars twice a month and online hackathons three times a year. For more information visit our website. To receive this newsletter directly to your inbox every month click on the button below.
