BIDS Data Science Lecture Series | October 30, 2015 | 1:00-2:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library, UC Berkeley
Sponsors: Berkeley Institute for Data Science and the Data, Society and Inference Seminar
When you hear MasterCard, you may think of the company as strictly a payments company.
We’re actually so much more than that—we’re a technology company in the global payments industry. We operate the world’s fastest payment-processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. Our products and solutions make everyday activities—such as shopping, traveling, running a business, and managing finances—easier, more secure, and more efficient for everyone.
And data—managing it, interpreting it, and figuring out how to transform it into insights that support our participating financial institutions and merchants—is a fundamental part of what we do each day.
Meet Wally Lo Faro, PhD and data scientist for MasterCard, as he covers how MasterCard places its data scientists throughout the company, what processes and tools they use, and how this is making a difference to the marketplace.
