This talk was given at H2O World 2018 NYC and can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/vUqC8UPw9SU Description: The good news is building fair, accountable, and transparent machine learning systems is possible. The bad news is it’s harder than many blogs and software package docs would have you believe. The truth is nearly all interpretable machine learning techniques generate approximate explanations, that the fields of eXplainable AI (XAI) and Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning (FAT/ML) are very new, and that few best practices have been widely agreed upon. This combination can lead to some ugly outcomes! This talk aims to make your interpretable machine learning project a success by describing fundamental technical challenges you will face in building an interpretable machine learning system, defining the real-world value proposition of approximate explanations for exact models, and then outlining the following viable techniques for debugging, explaining, and testing machine learning models: *Model visualizations including decision tree surrogate models, individual conditional expectation (ICE) plots, partial dependence plots, and residual analysis. *Reason code generation techniques like LIME, Shapley explanations, and Treeinterpreter. *Sensitivity Analysis. Plenty of guidance on when, and when not, to use these techniques will also be shared, and the talk will conclude by providing guidelines for testing generated explanations themselves for accuracy and stability. Open source examples (with lots of comments and helpful hints) for building interpretable machine learning systems are available to accompany the talk at: https://github.com/jphall663/interpretable_machine_learning_with_python Bio: Patrick Hall is senior director for data science products at H2O.ai where he focuses mainly on model interpretability. Patrick is also currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at George Washington University, where he teaches graduate classes in data mining and machine learning. Prior to joining H2O.ai, Patrick held global customer facing roles and research and development roles at SAS Institute. Speaker's Bio: Patrick Hall is a senior director for data science products at H2o.ai where he focuses mainly on model interpretability. Patrick is also currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at George Washington University, where he teaches graduate classes in data mining and machine learning. Prior to joining H2o.ai, Patrick held global customer facing roles and R & D research roles at SAS Institute. He holds multiple patents in automated market segmentation using clustering and deep neural networks. Patrick was the 11th person worldwide to become a Cloudera certified data scientist. He studied computational chemistry at the University of Illinois before graduating from the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University.