FSI305: Barclays: Accelerating research data science using AWS

Barclays has created a research data platform using AWS services to analyze and extract insights from third-party datasets. The solution provides data scientists with the ability to securely import large amounts of data and provision resources to quickly execute public and privately developed Python models running on Spark clusters. Attendees learn how Barclays overcame the challenges it faced on-premises of long lead times securing infrastructure, on-demand elastic job processing, and a lack of available capabilities for automation and tooling. The solution directly benefits the business by providing a new capability to extract market insights from datasets at a greater velocity than previously possible.