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understand the attention mechanism (Transformers) • build a model pipeline with Hugging Face • extract and prepare data from PDF files
Nicole Königstein
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You’re a data scientist at Finative, an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) analytics company that analyzes a high volume of data using advanced natural language processing (NLP) techniques in order to provide its clients insights for sustainable investing. Recently, your CEO has decided that Finative should increase its own financial sustainability. Your task is to classify sustainability reports of a publicly traded company in an efficient and sustainable way.

You’ll learn the fundamental mathematics—including backpropagation, matrix multiplication, and attention mechanisms—of Transformers, empowering you to optimize your model’s performance, improve its efficiency, and handle undesirable model predictions. You’ll use Python’s pdfplumber library to extract text from a sustainability report for quick delivery to your CEO. To further increase efficiency, you’ll save training time by using a language model that’s been pre-trained with ESG data to build a pipeline for the model and classify the sustainability report.

This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.

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Nicole Koenigstein

Nicole Königstein currently works as data science and technology lead at impactvise, an ESG analytics company, and as a quantitative researcher and technology lead at Quantmate, an innovative FinTech startup that leverages alternative data as part of its predictive modeling strategy. She’s a regular speaker, sharing her expertise at conferences such as ODSC Europe. In addition, she teaches Python, machine learning, and deep learning, and holds workshops at conferences including the Women in Tech Global Conference.

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  • Basic familiarity with scikit-learn (how to import and use classes such as sklearn.decomposition)
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  • Basic linear algebra
  • Basic calculus
  • Basic data science

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