As a data scientist i have been lucky enough to be a part of highly critical and cutting edge solutions for pristine organizations like Intel , Indian Army etc. While each of them was an amazing experience in its own right , the challenges i faced and the knowledge i gained from making an Open Source Intelligence gathering and Analytics/Prediction tool for the Indian Army are unmatched and i will be sharing some of the main challenges that i think will be encountered in .

An OSINT tool can have some powerful capabalities like :-

• Predict and estimate the location of an Twitter/Facebook user (who has disabled his location obviously!) through various metrics.
• Predict occurrence of certain events (eg. Riot's) based of information gathered from various Open Sources.
• Identify and Predict accounts of people who may be potential suspects (Security use Case) or potential Influencers (Commercial use case).
• Contextual analysis of words to derive relevant insights.

I worked on this project for over an year , and since then have been using my experience of OSINT in other sectors like Healthcare/Pharma . While working for other sectors i was appalled by the way OSINT information was being under-utilized .

I would like to share my experience of working with some great mean on a very critical project for out military by discussing the problems i faced and how they can be overcome , at the same time i hope to give you a guideline on how you can efficiently utilize the power of OSINT information in your respective field be in consumer goods , healthcare or energy. I hope that the attendees will pick up some valuable insights from my experience which will help them in projects ranging from NLP to Time-Series analytics.