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Larry Odhiambo

Larry Odhiambo

AI Data Specialist & NLP Annotation | DataEQ (Remote), Cape Town, South Africa

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Nairobi, Kenya
$15.00/hrExpertOther

Key Skills

Software

Other

Top Subject Matter

Brand intelligence
customer experience
sentiment analysis for banking

Top Data Types

TextText
ImageImage
DocumentDocument

Top Task Types

Classification
Data Collection
Emotion Recognition
Question Answering
Segmentation

Freelancer Overview

AI Data Specialist & NLP Annotation | DataEQ (Remote), London, United Kingdom, Brings 3+ years of professional experience across legal operations, contract review, compliance and structured analysis. Core strengths include Other. Education includes Professional Certificate, African Leadership International (ALX) (2025) and Bachelor of Arts, Moi University (2017). AI-training focus includes data types such as Text and labeling workflows including Classification.

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Labeling Experience

AI Data Specialist & NLP Annotation | DataEQ (Remote), Cape Town, South Africa

OtherTextClassification
As an AI Data Specialist & NLP Annotation expert at DataEQ, I performed multi-label text classification, intent detection, and sentiment analysis on hundreds of social media posts weekly. I assigned structured topic taxonomy labels to train NLP and AI models, supporting clients in banking, telecoms, and retail across various projects. My work included maintaining a quality assurance accuracy rate above 95% while escalating urgent brand safety risks for timely client action. • Assigned topic taxonomy labels such as account admin, customer service, and transactions. • Conducted sentiment analysis and purchase intent identification on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram content. • Moderated and annotated 40+ hours of social media content per week for enterprise brand intelligence systems. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to calibrate annotation guidelines and improve labeling consistency.

As an AI Data Specialist & NLP Annotation expert at DataEQ, I performed multi-label text classification, intent detection, and sentiment analysis on hundreds of social media posts weekly. I assigned structured topic taxonomy labels to train NLP and AI models, supporting clients in banking, telecoms, and retail across various projects. My work included maintaining a quality assurance accuracy rate above 95% while escalating urgent brand safety risks for timely client action. • Assigned topic taxonomy labels such as account admin, customer service, and transactions. • Conducted sentiment analysis and purchase intent identification on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram content. • Moderated and annotated 40+ hours of social media content per week for enterprise brand intelligence systems. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to calibrate annotation guidelines and improve labeling consistency.

2017 - Present

Education

A

ALX

Certificate, Data Science

Certificate
2025 - 2025
M

Moi University

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology

Bachelor of Arts
2012 - 2017

Work History

D

DataEQ, South Africa (Formerly Brandseye)

Freelance Data Contributor & Specialist

Cape Town
2017 - Present
M

Ministry of Gender, Culture & Children Services

Child Protection Intern – Social Worker

Nairobi
2017 - 2017