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Managing risk in machine learning

O'Reilly on Data

There are also many important considerations that go beyond optimizing a statistical or quantitative metric. As we deploy ML in many real-world contexts, optimizing statistical or business metics alone will not suffice. Fortunately there are members of our data community who have been thinking about these problems.

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How Insurance Companies Use Data To Measure Risk And Choose Rates

Smart Data Collective

Here is the type of data insurance companies use to measure a client’s potential risk and determine rates. Traditional data, like demographics, continues to be a factor in risk assessment. Teens and young adults are less experienced drivers and, therefore, at risk for more car accidents. Demographics. Occupation.

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The unreasonable importance of data preparation

O'Reilly on Data

Beyond the autonomous driving example described, the “garbage in” side of the equation can take many forms—for example, incorrectly entered data, poorly packaged data, and data collected incorrectly, more of which we’ll address below. Data collected for one purpose can have limited use for other questions.

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AI adoption in the enterprise 2020

O'Reilly on Data

Whether it’s controlling for common risk factors—bias in model development, missing or poorly conditioned data, the tendency of models to degrade in production—or instantiating formal processes to promote data governance, adopters will have their work cut out for them as they work to establish reliable AI production lines.

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Mobile Data Collection: What it is and what it can do

FineReport

Data collection is nothing new, but the introduction of mobile devices has made it more interesting and efficient. But now, mobile data collection means information can be digitally recording on the mobile device at the source of its origin, eliminating the need for data entry after the information is collected.

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Why Nonprofits Shouldn’t Use Statistics

Depict Data Studio

— Thank you to Ann Emery, Depict Data Studio, and her Simple Spreadsheets class for inviting us to talk to them about the use of statistics in nonprofit program evaluation! But then we realized that much of the time, statistics just don’t have much of a role in nonprofit work. Why Nonprofits Shouldn’t Use Statistics.

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly on Data

All you need to know for now is that machine learning uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to “learn” by being trained on existing data. After training, the system can make predictions (or deliver other results) based on data it hasn’t seen before. Machine learning adds uncertainty.