Predicting Famine Risks Using Natural Language Processing @ World Bank Econothon, July 2019.

We often think of performance and success interchangeably. However, in areas of human activity where performance is difficult to quantify in an objective fashion, reputation and networks of influence play a key role in determining who becomes successful. In this talk, I show how big data and network science can help us predict artistic success @ TEDx, April 2019.

Predicting the Present Better By Combining Various Sources of Unstructured Data @ World Bank Data Day, Feb 2019.