Beeline and American University of Armenia summed up the results of  Data Science School 

ArmInfo.The American University of Armenia (AUA) summed up the Data Science Summer School organized with the support of Beeline, which was accompanied by the  awarding of winning teams. According to the press service of the  company, this was the first event of this kind in Armenia, which  provided specialists in various fields with the opportunity to  familiarize themselves with the basics, tools and technologies of  data science and, using their knowledge, to implement projects with  real data.

According to the source, the presented projects dealt with various  applications of this science: automatic recognition of banknotes,  prediction of staff turnover, analysis of samples of art, analysis of  the search for names of medicines, identification of the best cancer  treatment program, large-scale analysis of tourist facilities, etc.

The participating 14 groups presented their team projects to an  authoritative jury and the projects with complex technical solutions  and the best functional characteristics were selected. The winners  were: 1st place was taken by the project Recommender System with  LightFM, offering advice on products and services; 2nd place- The  Employee Churn Prediction project, which identifies employees who are  inclined to leave the company; 3rd place - a project that carried out  cluster and sentiment analysis on the TripAdvisor platform. The  sponsors of the summer school Beeline and Webb fontain awarded the  winners with cash prizes.

"As an IT company, we are very aware of the importance and necessity  of data science and are pleased to see the remarkable results of the  participants. Such practical workshops are a great way to replenish  the labor market with specialists. I am sure that the participants of  this project will soon contribute to the development of technologies  in Armenia", Beeline general director in Armenia Andrey Pyatakhin  said.

To recall, "VEON Armenia" CJSC, currently "VEON Armenia Holdings  B.V." (Beeline trademark) is a member of the VEON group of companies,  which is one of the world's largest integrated operators of  communication. The group includes communication companies that  provide services of voice and data communications based on a wide  range of wireless and fixed line technologies as well broadband  Internet access subscribers in Russia, Italy, Ukraine, Kazakhstan,  Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Algeria,  Bangladesh and Pakistan. Group's companies provide services under the  brands "Beeline", "Kievstar", "Wind", "Mobilink", "Banglalink" and  "Djezzy".