by Mr.Desmond Lim, Data Science Evangelist, DataRobot for the NUS-ISS SkillsFuture Series Seminar: Harnessing the power of Intelligent Software Agents (9 April 2019)

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Powering-Up Agents
using Data Science:
Challenges &
Opportunities
9 April 2019

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Agenda
The Model Development Process
Data Science Skillsets
Supply & Demand
Proposition
Automated Machine Learning:
Development, Implementation & Maintenance

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The AI Model Development Process
TIME DURATION = LONG….!

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List of skills for a Data Scientist…
1. Knowledge of the business and business problem
2. Knowledge of the data
3. Ability to write code to gather data
4. Ability to write code to explore/inspect data
5. Ability to write code to manipulate data
6. Ability to write code to extract actionable items
7. Ability to write code to build models
8. Ability to write code to implement models
9. Foundational statistics
10. Internals of algorithms
11. Practical knowledge and experience
12. Knowing how to interpret and explain models

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Supply & Demand Gap for Machine Learning
The global demand for machine
learning solutions greatly exceeds the
production capacity of all the data
scientists in the world.
Demand for machine learning & AI
Data scientists in the world
2010 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 20242008 2012

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Continuing to have humans manually build Machine
Learning models is
No longer a viable option

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200+
Data Scientists & Engineers (of
500+)
4
#1 ranked Data Scientists
50+
Top 3 finishes
BANKING HEALTHCARE MANUFACTURING INSURANCE MANY MORE
Premiere Enterprise Machine Learning platform
2012
Founded, HQ in Boston, MA
$224M
In funding
>1 Billion
Models built

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List of skills needed for executing on AI opportunities by
leveraging Automated Machine Learning:
1. Knowledge of the business and
business problem
2. Knowledge of the data
3. Small amount of pragmatic education
and mentoring.

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The Automated Model Development Process
SPEEDY GONZALEZ – ARREEBA!!!

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10-100x
Increased
productivity for
data scientists
Democratization
of data science:
1000x more AI
Producers.
We have been focused only on
inventing and improving enterprise-
grade automated machine learning
since 2012.
Demand for machine learning & AI
Data scientists in the world
2010
2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 20242008
The only viable solution: Automated Machine Learning

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Demo

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DataRobot
The Old Way

13. DATAROBOT’S AUTOMATED
MACHINE LEARNING PLATFORM
Used by global leaders across all industries
8 OF
TOP 10
US BANKS
Professional
Sports Teams
in the NBA,
NHL, MLB
8 OF 10
BIGGEST
COMPANIES
IN JAPAN
Largest retail,
pharmaceutical,
supermarket,
automobile,
gaming service,
wholesale, and
manufacturing
companies in the
world
“DataRobot makes
my work exciting,
my job fun, and
the results more
accurate and
timely
— it’s almost
like magic!”
“DataRobot really
helped us hit that
inflection point
where modeling
went from
something we
valued
and did to really
blowing it out
of the water.”
TRANSPORTATION &
MANUFACTURING
FINANCE TECHNOLOGY HEALTHCARE INSURANCE GLOBAL
CONSULTING
FIRMS

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