Ria Sankar is the Director of Program Management for Microsoft's AI for Good programs. This webinar covers her talk on "Getting Started with Data Science and AI in the Non-Profit Sector" that was supported to be offered during 2020 NTEN Conference in Baltimore (20NTC) and recorded via Keela's Plugged In platform due to COVID-19.
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Microsoft Artificial Intelligence for Humanitarian Action
Human rightsNeeds of children
Refugees &
displaced peopleDisaster relief
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Disaster Relief
Open Street Map
Street and Building Recognition
Automated Needs Analysis Veterans aiding Hurricane
Relief
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Lesson #1: Deep customer
empathy brings
transformation
OXO Good Grips
revolutionized an industry that
has been unchanged for
decades
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Lesson #2: The Law of
Unintended Consequences
Remedy: Instrument for leading
indicators of failure
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Lesson #3: The Placebo
effect
The importance of
hypothesis-driven testing
when you are up against
strong beliefs
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Source: Wikimedia Commons
Further Viewing: https://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science?language=en#t-839994
Picture Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/VariousPills.jpg
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Lesson #4: Spurious
Correlations
Be careful with visuals that
imply causation. Supplement
data with insights.
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Sources:
http://bama.ua.edu
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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Lesson #5: Beware of Bias
Over 150 types of bias like self-
selection bias shown here.
Remedy: Question your wildest
insights. If it’s too good to be
true, it’s probably not.
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Step 2 Customer
Understanding
Understand your customer’s
functional, social and
emotional needs
Functional
“Find the best
volunteers for
disaster response”
Social
“Give volunteers a
way to connect
with like-minded
friends”
Emotional
“Instill in veterans a
new mission and
sense of purpose”
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Qual & Quant effective in understanding
new or sparse use cases
Further reading https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/user-research-turning-data-delightful-experiences-ria-sankar/
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Identify specific, measurable KPIs. Find your baseline.
EffectiveSalesperson
Score on “product knowledge” test
Duration between open/closed logged calls
NSAT – Partner satisfaction survey
Result
Metrics
Beliefs
Frequency
General Specific
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Step 4 Data Literacy
Define your measurement
system and data quality
parameters.Business
Problem
Data
Audience
Insight
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Lifecycle of a Belief
Belief
Quick
Hypothesis
Test
No Change
Machine
Learning &
Experiments
No Change
Significant
Difference?
Ship!
Significant
Difference?
Offline metrics, Surveys,
Sample data, Panel Studies
Machine learning, Deep
Learning, AB or Multi-variate
tests
Customer Interaction, Problem
Definition, Data Collection
Labelled Data
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Define your measurement system and data
quality parameters.
Data
Ingestion
Data
Collection
Data
Labelling
Data
Access
Data
Insights
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MAP CHART
Graphical Analysis 101
Graphs provide practical
significance. Visuals help
isolate data issues or define
key outcomes
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Typical AI Models
• Supervised vs. Unsupervised
• Batch vs. Online
• Classification vs. Regression
• Generalized vs. Discriminative
• Instance-based vs. Model-based
Ensemble Methods
Bagging and Boosting (rely on PhDs)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-automated-ml-capability-in-azure-machine-learning/?WT.mc_id=azure-presentation-lazzeri
Other Resources:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/studio/media/algorithm-cheat-sheet/machine-learning-algorithm-cheat-sheet-small_v_0_6-01.png
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Typical AI for Good Solutions
Chatbots
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Matching Algorithms
Recommender Systems
Direct Data Analysis
Image Processing
Acoustic Detection
Deep Learning NLP
Deep Learning Object Detection
Fraud and Outlier Detection
Genomics analysis