James Gammerman

James Gammerman

Data Scientist

Centrica

About Me

I am a data scientist working at the British energy supplier Centrica (British Gas).
I have 4 years of professional experience in data science, and 8 years in data analysis more generally.

My main area of interest is machine learning, in which I have an MSc from Royal Holloway University of London (2018). I enjoy applying machine learning and data analysis techniques to business data. I have also recently started publishing research related to my commercial work in academic journals.

My programming language of choice is R but I am also comfortable with Python. I am currently gaining experience with cloud technologies.

Outside of my career my main interests are sports, technology and travelling.

Interests

  • Classical Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Natural Language Processing / Text Mining
  • Reliable Machine Learning (Conformal Prediction)
  • Visualisation
  • Data Analysis

Education

  • MSc in Machine Learning, 2018

    Royal Holloway University of London

  • MSci in Chemistry, 2013

    Imperial College London

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Data Scientist

Centrica

Apr 2017 – Present London, UK

  • Key analytical responsibilities:

    • Applying machine learning and statistical modelling techniques to company data
    • Other stages of the data science life cycle (eg. data cleaning/preprocessing, exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, model deployment)

  • Training colleagues in machine learning and statistical programming

    • Instructor for several 3-day workshops across the UK

  • Managing collaboration between Centrica and Royal Holloway university, which has led to publication of research

 
 
 
 
 

Business Analyst

ExxonMobil

Aug 2013 – Apr 2017 London, UK
  • Gas & Power Marketing and Trading: Wide range of data analytics tasks/projects relating to European markets

Blog Posts

How (and why) to make a lollipop plot in R

Introduction In this post I’m going to reproduce an unusual chart I saw David Robinson make during one of his recent Tidy Tuesday screencasts looking at data from the US Bureau of Labour Statistics.
Last updated on March 2021 8 min read

Predicting NFL stadium attendances with tidymodels

Introduction In this post I’m going to be trying out the new tidymodels framework in R. I’ve been reading through the corresponding book and it looks to me like a real game-changer for building robust statistical/ML models quickly in the R language.
Last updated on March 2021 13 min read

Cocktail recipes analysis

Introduction For this first blog post I thought I’d take a recent #TidyTuesday dataset and do some analysis of it. Where better to start than one of my favourite things?
Last updated on February 2021 15 min read R

Talks and Teaching

Machine Learning: Progress & Prospects

A talk I gave on machine learning in Ukraine in 2018.
May 2018 University of Odessa (Mechnikov)
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Business Analytics in R - An Introduction to Statistical Programming

This is a training course that I co-authored and have presented several times to company employees across the UK. The course introduces statistical and machine learning techniques and applies them in business contexts using the R programming language.
January 2018 — January 2020 United Kingdom (various locations)
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Publications

Research developed from my commercial work

Multi-Level Conformal Clustering: A Distribution-free Technique for Clustering and Anomaly Detection

This paper was developed from my MSc thesis and published in Neurocomputing (volume 397, 2020). It introduces a novel clustering technique which also incorporates anomaly detection.
Ilia Nouretdinov, James Gammerman, Matteo Fontana, Daljit Rehal
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Anomaly Detection based on Association Rules and Conformal Prediction

This poster abstract was published in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (volume 105, 2019), and introduces a novel machine learning technique for database cleaning.
Ilia Nouretdinov, James Gammerman, Daljit Rehal
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Predictive Maintenance with Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction: A Commercial Case Study

My MSc thesis. Won award for best dissertation.
James Gammerman
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