Data Science UA

Recruiting, consulting and training sit side by side at this agency, which grew out of the data science community in Ukraine. Companies come to it to find people who work with data, and also to set up whole teams and projects around artificial intelligence.

Hiring from a specialist pool

The recruiting arm draws on a database that the agency says holds more than twenty thousand data professionals, including computer vision and machine learning engineers. It reports having closed over 150 data science positions, some of them at C-level, and describes its hiring as quick, with a typical search taking two to four weeks. The service is offered to employers and to candidates alike.

Opening an R&D centre from scratch

For firms that want a research and development centre for AI work, the agency describes a turnkey route that covers every stage, from legal and compliance questions through recruiting and HR. A dedicated team is then built to fit the project, and the administrative load is taken off the client so its own people can stay on software development. One example it gives is an AI centre for a US product company, where the aim was to cut injury risk in steel production using computer vision and to assemble a team of ten engineers within a month.

Consulting and applied projects

Its consulting work supports companies at different points of a digital and data transformation, from building data infrastructure and automated reporting to advanced machine learning models. Other projects it describes include a recommendation system and customer churn prediction for a national chain of beauty and health stores in Ukraine, labelling roof coordinates and types from satellite images for a Dutch rooftop solar installer, and a model that classifies transactions for a mobile banking app.

Sector work and training

For marketing teams, the agency says it tunes analysis so that routine reporting runs on its own, and it applies machine learning to sales forecasting and product recommendation. For retailers it lists customer analysis, assortment analysis, sales forecasts, marketing budget optimisation and improvements in merchandising and supply chain management.

Training is split into corporate and individual programmes with mentorship, for newcomers and experienced staff, covering data analysis and visualisation, data management and artificial intelligence. The agency also organises its own data science conferences.