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Issue #69 🤖 - Insights for Remote ML Teams, Human-in-the-loop in Prod ML, Netflix & Druid for Real Time Data, The Importance of Data Prep + more 🚀

This week in Issue #69:

AI Conferences Gone Virtual in 2020
Insights for Remote ML Teams
Human-in-the-loop in Prod ML
Netflix & Druid for Real Time Data
The Importance of Data Prep
Featured OSS Production ML Libraries
Awesome AI Guidelines to check out this week
+ more 🚀

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AI Conferences Gone Virtual 2020

Due to the current global situation, a large number of conferences have had to face hard choices, several which decided going fully virtual. This hard choice has now open the doors to people from around the world to gain access to the great online content generated by expert speakers and contributors. We wanted to highlight some of these key conferences so they are not missed - these include:

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Insights for Remote ML Teams

CometML has put together a great article that outlines best practices for managing remote data science teams. The article includes key considerations, including ortanisational structures, biggest challenges that remote workers face, and best practices; these include productive workspaces, communication, habits, trust and more.

Human-in-the-loop in Prod ML

A great Data Exchange Podcast with Machine Learning Consulting CEO Rob Munro, where they dive into “Human in the loop Machine Learning”, and cover Rob’s experience at various tech giants, writing his book on the topic, several NLP areas where it’s relevant, and how this fits in real life.

Netflix & Druid for Real Time Data

Netflix brings us a high level overview of how they use Druid for real time insights. Apache Druid is a high performance real-time analytics database, which is designed primarily for workflows where fast queries and ingest really matter. In this post they highlight how Druid’s capabilities shine around instant data visibility, ad-hoc queries, operational analytics and handling high concurrency. They cover a high level architecture of their data processing lifecycle, as well as insights they have gathered to ensure scale.

The Importance of Data Prep

The O’Reilly team published a great post that highlights the importance of data preparation. In this article they present a “Data Science Hierarchy of Needs”, where they outline how key data processing is to ensure accurate and reliable insights when tackling any data-related challenge. In the post they cover the importance of automatic data prep, some key tools aiding in this area, and they dive into the future of tooling.

OSS: Data Visualisation

The topic for this week’s featured production machine learning libraries is Data Visualisation. We are currently looking for more libraries to add - if you know of any that are not listed, please let us know or feel free to add a PR. The four featured libraries this week are:

Redash - Redash is anopen source visualisation framework that is built to allow easy access to big datasets leveraging multiple backends.
Plotly Dash - Dash is a Python framework for building analytical web applications without the need to write javascript.
Streamlit - Streamlit lets you create apps for your machine learning projects with deceptively simple Python scripts. It supports hot-reloading, so your app updates live as you edit and save your file
PDPBox - This repository is inspired by ICEbox. The goal is to visualize the impact of certain features towards model prediction for any supervised learning algorithm. (now support all scikit-learn algorithms)

If you know of any libraries that are not in the “Awesome MLOps” list, please do give us a heads up or feel free to add a pull request!

OSS: Awesome AI Guidelines

As AI systems become more prevalent in society, we face bigger and tougher societal challenges. We have seen a large number of resources that aim to takle thiese challenges in the form of AI Guidelines, Principles, Ethics Frameworks, etc, however there are so many resources it is hard to navigate. Because of this we started an Open Source initiative that aims to map the ecosystem to make it simpler to navigate. We will be showcasingitg three resources from our list so we can check them out every week. This week’s resources are:

AI & Machine Learning 8 principles for Responsible ML - The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning has put together 8 principles for responsible machine learning that are to be adopted by individuals and delivery teams designing, building and operating machine learning systems
An Evaluation of Guidelines - The Ethics of Ethics; A research paper that analyses multiple Ethics principles
ACM’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct - This is the code of ethics that has been put together in 1992 by the Association for Computer Machinery and updated in 2018
From What to How - An initial review of publicly available AI Ethics Tools, Methods and Research to translate principles into practices

If you know of any guidelines that are not in the “Awesome AI Guidelines” list, please do give us a heads up or feel free to add a pull request!

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