Thomas Wood

I am a London-based freelance data scientist, available for consulting engagements especially around NLP (natural language processing). I help organisations extract value from unstructured data. If you have a large amount of text documents (examples include but are not limited to pharmaceutical regulatory documents, legal caseloads, credit reports), and would like to understand how this can benefit your organisation, and even quantify the benefit before getting started, please let me know.

Recent posts by Thomas Wood

Video interview about Clinical Trial Risk Tool

Video interview about Clinical Trial Risk Tool

This month, I presented the Clinical Trial Risk Tool at the Plotly Dash in Action webinar. I was interviewed by Plotly’s Community Manager Adam Schroeder. You can watch the relevant part of the webinar below. The Clinical Trial Risk Tool was one of four interactive apps presented as part of the webinar. The speakers at the webinar were: Matteo Trachsel, Head of Sustainability at Thermoplan AG, Switzerland, who presented his Product Environmental Report Dash App, which calculates the carbon footprint of coffee machine usage.

Plotly Dash challenge webinar on 7 June, 2023

Plotly Dash challenge webinar on 7 June, 2023

Natural language processing is becoming ever more important in research. The explosion in interest in LLMs is sparking many opportunities to analyse text data in healthcare, social sciences, and other areas. We’re proud to announce that the Clinical Trial Risk Tool has been selected as a winner of the Plotly Dash Example Apps Challenge (2023), out of 25 amazing apps submitted by the community. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, this app uses natural language processing, Plotly Dash, and the spaCy and Scikit-Learn libraries to calculate the risk of a clinical trial failing to deliver informative results.