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Quality Control Tips for Data Collection with Drone Surveying

Smart Data Collective

Here at Smart Data Collective, we never cease to be amazed about the advances in data analytics. We have been publishing content on data analytics since 2008, but surprising new discoveries in big data are still made every year. One of the biggest trends shaping the future of data analytics is drone surveying.

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Measuring Validity and Reliability of Human Ratings

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

E ven after we account for disagreement, human ratings may not measure exactly what we want to measure. Overview Human-labeled data is ubiquitous in business and science, and platforms for obtaining data from people have become increasingly common. And for thousands of years, measurement was as simple as this.

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How Insurance Companies Use Data To Measure Risk And Choose Rates

Smart Data Collective

With the technology available today, there’s even more data to draw from. The good news is that this new data can help lower your insurance rate. Here is the type of data insurance companies use to measure a client’s potential risk and determine rates. Demographics. This includes: Age. Telematics. Safety Features.

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Of Muffins and Machine Learning Models

Cloudera

In this example, the Machine Learning (ML) model struggles to differentiate between a chihuahua and a muffin. Will the model correctly determine it is a muffin or get confused and think it is a chihuahua? The extent to which we can predict how the model will classify an image given a change input (e.g. Model Visibility.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly on Data

These measures are commonly referred to as guardrail metrics , and they ensure that the product analytics aren’t giving decision-makers the wrong signal about what’s actually important to the business. When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure ( Goodhart’s Law ). Any metric can and will be abused.

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Solving the Data Daze – Analytics at the Speed of Business Questions

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Beyond the early days of data collection, where data was acquired primarily to measure what had happened (descriptive) or why something is happening (diagnostic), data collection now drives predictive models (forecasting the future) and prescriptive models (optimizing for “a better future”).

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Explaining black-box models using attribute importance, PDPs, and LIME

Domino Data Lab

In this article we cover explainability for black-box models and show how to use different methods from the Skater framework to provide insights into the inner workings of a simple credit scoring neural network model. The interest in interpretation of machine learning has been rapidly accelerating in the last decade. See Ribeiro et al.

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