Jesse Hammond
Dr. Jesse Hammond, Ph.D., is a research and data scientist with over a decade of experience in quantitative storytelling with data. Jesse completed his doctoral studies in Political Science at the University of California at Davis, with a dual emphasis on international relations and social network analysis, and has published multiple peer-reviewed papers showing the benefits of innovative data-analytic models to complex social science questions. Jesse currently works in the RATE Category Squad at Rabobank, helping improve the bank’s transaction categorization engine. His primary interest is in improving data-science product through rigorous research design, ensuring that the insights we generate are transparent, robust, and appropriate to the question being asked.
My Sessions
Unpacking payment requests: improving categorization performance on non-standard data
RabobankJesse Hammond
Avantika Karir
Sebastiaan Kragting
William Tjiong
Transaction categorization (identifying the “for what” of a given booking event) is a crucial building block in a bank’s financial decision-making. At Rabobank, transaction categorization empowers teams to fight economic crime, mitigate lending risk, and support customers’ financial health with relevant, accurate insights. In this presentation, we explore how better data processing and analytics can […]