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Managing Data Science Projects
- 1. Executive Briefing Lessons learned managing data science projects: Adopting a team data science process
- 5. Our strategy is to build best-in-class platforms and productivity services for an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge infused with artificial intelligence (“AI”). Microsoft Form 10-K 2016
- 7. Data Science
- 8. Toolbox of a Data Scientist 8 8
- 9. Do it like a Professional!
- 10. Understand the Decision Process Tip #1
- 11. What is the business problem that needs to be solved, independent of the technology solution? What is the decision or action has to be taken that can be informed by data.
- 13. Understanding the Decision Process Key Decision Should I service this piece of equipment? Data Science Question What is the probability this equipment will fail within the next X days?
- 15. Business Scenario Key Decision Data Science Question Energy Forecasting Should I buy or sell energy contracts? What will be the long/short term demand for energy in a region? Customer Churn Which customers should I prioritize to reduce churn? What is probability of churn within X days for each customer? Personalized Marketing What product should I offer first? What is the probability that customer will purchase each product? Product Feedback Which service/product needs attention? What is social media sentiment for each service/product? Framing Data Science Question based on the Scenario
- 16. Be obsessed with data Tip #2
- 17. Being Obsessed with Data Can only complete the process with the right data!
- 18. Bring in the people that know the data
- 23. What is considered a success for the business?
- 24. How do you measure it?
- 25. Establish a Qualitative Objective Translate into Quantifiable Metric Quantify the metric value improvement useful (e.g., 10% fewer failures savings of $1MM/year) Establish a baseline (e.g., current failure rate = 10% per year) Establish how to measure the improvement in the metric with the data science solution (e.g. 80% of the equipment maintained based on predictive model) Using Performance Metrics
- 26. Document Success Metrics using a template
- 27. Tips: 1. Data science team embedded within the business 2. Allow exploring multiple problem formulations to get to end metric goal 3. Past goal, go within set time period 4. Ensure reproducibility
- 28. Establish the E2E solution Tip #4
- 29. 1. Set up the end to end solution and the metrics 2. Launch with a baseline/simple model 3. Act on the recommendations of the solution 4. Measure and iterate
- 30. Establishing a E2E solution helps with buy-in from the business
- 31. Keep a Human in the Loop Tip #5
- 32. • Empower ALL to perform like the BEST • Automate repetitive human tasks • Embed expert knowledge into the solution
- 33. • How to interpret the model? • Importance of Features • Bias in the model • Interpreting predictions per instance • What-if analysis Users don’t trust black-box models
- 34. Data Science is a Team Sport
- 35. Learn and Educate Tip #6
- 37. 1. Learn from experiments • Why? • Both Successes or Failures 2. Share the learnings 3. Promote successful experiments to production 4. Move on to the next hypothesis to experiment
- 38. • Failure is a valid outcome of an experiment • Learn and refine the next experiment
- 39. Adopt a Process Tip #7
- 40. A process specifies a detailed sequence of activities necessary to perform specific business tasks. It is used to standardize procedures and establish best practices.
- 41. Microsoft’s Team Data Science Process https://aka.ms/tdsp Standard Project Lifecycle Standardized Document Templates, Project Structure Shared, Distributed Resources Productivity Tools, Shared Utilities
- 43. Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD)
- 45. • Data science virtual machines (DSVMs) as the fundamental development platform on cloud • Use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) • Work item tracking and scrum planning • Git repositories • Shared data science utilities in Git repository • Use cloud-based Azure resources as needed
- 47. • Terminology: • Feature: a project • Story: a stage in the E2E process of a DS project • Tasks: specific coding/documentation/othe r activities that are needed to complete a story • Iteration: usually a 2-week sprint
- 50. App Developer Source Control Cloud Services CI/CD Pipelines IDE Data Scientist Training Environment [ { "cat": 0.99218, "feline": 0.81242, "puma": 0.45456: } ] IDE App code Apps Edge Devices Model Storage PUBLISHCODE CONSUME Lifecycle Management Processes. Templates. Permissions Embed model CNTK/TF/SCIKIT KERAS/ … Train& testmodel Data Lake App telemetry A/B Testing BUILD & TEST Training+ testcode Continuous retraining Testmodel +app
- 51. Model Source Control • Processes and procedures to make models reproducible (from source control to data retention policies) • Make it easy to work on multiple models (consistent process)
- 52. Model Validation • Unit testing, functional testing and performance testing • Validation needs to be performed both isolation and when embedded in an application
- 53. Model Versioning & Storage • Provide a consistent way to store & share models, plus a way to track where models are embedded / running • Provide a consistent model format • Provide traceability on where a model came from (which data, which experiment, where’s the code / notebook) • Provide a way to track where model is running • Control who has access to what models
- 54. Model Deployment • Provide an efficient process to get a model build into an application or service and leveraged to light up an end-user scenario. • Simplify the process to interact with the model (through code- generation, API specifications / interfaces or other methods) • Support a variety of inferencing targets (cloud / app / edge) (including FPGAs or dedicated frameworks like CoreML & WinML) • Provide secrets / service endpoint management to remove friction from configuring the release process.
- 55. Accumulate a toolbox of tricks Tip #8
- 56. • Data Exploration • RFM – User Behavior Modeling • Hyper parameter tuning • Auto Featurization Note: Domain expertise is still helpful Building an Org’s Toolbox
- 59. Lots of common sense… but not common practice
- 61. Thank you! Also thanks to Pavandeep Kalra, Jacob Spolstra, Wee Hyong Tok, Richin Jain, Brandon Rohrer
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