Ben Fields(III)
Ben Fields is a Lead Data Scientist at the BBC. There, his work focuses on recommenders, behavioral analytics,
and data modeling. Previously, he was the Lead Data Scientist at FutureLearn where his work his work focused
on recommenders, learning analytics, and predictive modelling. He's also done post-doc research on music social networks and ran the data-centric agency Fun and Plausible Solutions. He holds a PhD from the Computing Depart- ment at Goldsmith University of London where his dissertation focused on automatic playlists for music recommen- dation; he is an expert on metadata, structured data, the semantic web and recommendation systems.