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  • Product Review: IBM Watson Studio AutoAI

    Product Review: IBM Watson Studio AutoAI

    Today, we’re reviewing IBM Watson Studio’s new AutoAI feature.

    FTC Disclosure: My company, Trust Insights, is an IBM Registered Business Partner. We receive compensation for any purchases you make through us from IBM and thus I receive indirect financial benefit.

    AutoAI is a type of automated machine learning, which promises to help companies get to working machine learning models faster. How well does it live up to this promise? Watch the video for a full review.

    Key features:

    • Regression and classification
    • No code
    • Does basic data science tasks like feature extraction and hyperparameter optimization

    Disadvantages:

    • Limited in the number of models it can choose from
    • Data must be good going in
    • Model can’t be edited yet in a more granular way

    Product Review: IBM Watson Studio AutoAI
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    In today’s episode we are reviewing the IBM Watson studio new feature called auto AI or auto automated artificial intelligence. Now, before we begin full FTC disclosure is my company trust insights is an IBM registered business partner. We receive compensation for any purchases you make from IBM through US and US I receive indirect financial benefits. So FTC closures disclosures out of the way, auto AI is a type of automated machine learning which promises to help companies get to working artificial intelligence models faster given the data set, instead of the time it takes to go from data cleaning, prep, feature engineering, hyper parameter, optimization, model experimentation, and then to production that can depending on your data set, take a really long time.

    By the way, I promises to help companies do that in less time. Now, before we begin, there are both features and disadvantages of this approach. There is even though it can be very manual and tedious, there is some benefit. I’ve actually personally, there’s a ton of benefit to manually editing and cleaning your data set of

    and doing the feature engineering because it helps you get to know your data. And so if it’s something as mission critical, at least the first time through, you want to have a human do that after that, absolutely use automated machine learning. And one of the questions that people have had over over the last few months is, you know, will this replace data scientists know, and we’ll talk a bit more about that. But it’s not going to replace data scientists anytime soon. It will help data scientists workload get a little bit easier for the most common types of machine learning models. So let’s get into the environment.

    What we see here is Watson studio, and I’m going to fire up a an auto AI experiment. And we’ll do we’ll call this something auto test something. They’re really exciting.

    And our first experiment where you see here, you can add in testing data that we are adding training and data I’m going to throw in, let’s, let’s do some Google Analytics data, right? Google Analytics data is a rich source of information. And it’s something that a lot of marketers have access to. So this is going to be things like users and sessions and balances, and I have goal completion. So that’s what I want.

    All the way I’d help me do is help me understand, maybe a little bit better. What gets goal completions for my Google Analytics data?

    See, I dropped the data set in and asked me what do you want to predict? What do you want to know more about Of course, I want to know more about goal completions. Now here’s a bit of a landmine in this because

    Of the Way goal completions are structured is data set by pages, you know, one or two goals per page. So, auto a, I said, Hey, I think you’re trying to do a multi class classification. I’m actually not. This is again, why you can’t fully replace the data scientists with these software packages, because this is not a classification problem. This is a regression problem.

    So choose that I can choose the error metric, which again, if you are a data scientist, these mean a lot to you, if you’re not a data scientist, just go with whatever is recommended.

    But

    this is a case where that was not the correct prediction type. So it’s going to run the experiment. And what you’ll see next is if the entire pipeline of what Watson is going to do with this data, it’s going to read it, it’s going to split it into three pieces. Generally speaking, when you’re doing model testing for AI you’re going to do you’re going to split your data into three pieces. 60% of it

    Going to give them machine it’s going to try and learn from that and figure out, oh, well, this is your date, I’m going to try and learn what the patterns are, there’s 20% of it is going to be called test data. So once the machine first figures out, okay, I think this and this lead to conversions, it’s going to take the next 20% of the data set and test that, that conclusion out, see if that is is is true or not. And then there’s a third 20%, where it’s going to test the testing of the conclusion. This way, you avoid or you reduce the likelihood of what is called overfitting, where you make a prediction, that’s perfect. But then, when new data comes in, it goes off the rails. So it’s a split the holdout data, read the training data, do its own attempt at cleaning the data as best as it can.

    None of the automated machine learning tools, zero of them on the market, do a really good job of cleaning data perfectly. Right? That’s still the data that goes in still

    has to be good. And if it’s not good and it’s not in good shape models will simply not work. And this is true of Google auto ml. This is true of h2o Auto Mel This is true of IBM auto AI, it doesn’t matter whose system you’re using garbage in, garbage out, that’s going to be the truth forever just garbage. So, it then goes and chooses a model what kind of machine learning model would best fit this data?

    We see here it is chosen x g boost regressive. So extra boost is one of those popular algorithms that can help find

    what is likely causing regression or what it runs a regression model x g boost,

    which stands for extreme gradient boosting is probably the the most popular machine learning model for doing any kind of regression to one a bunch of cackle competitions and it’s just one in the toolkit. Now this is where auto AI has some real benefit for

    People who are trying to learn data science, I think this is a fantastic learning tool because you can see the choices it makes. And if you’re not familiar with the choice, and you go look it up and read up on it, but if you see the choice that makes any figure, okay, that’s an interesting choice. Why did it choose that? As it’s going through, you can see here on the on the bottom, as it makes each pipeline of learning, it tells you why it made those choices. So ranking based on the error that click on this pipeline data, you can see how it evaluated the model, the R squared error model information and the feature importance what it thinks is most likely to predict goal completions. And now it’s going to go through a few stages of really the the machine learning experimentation the exploratory process. So the first thing is to is hyper parameter optimize optimization.

    Hyper parameter optimization is you

    Really, really fancy way of saying it’s going to play with the settings. So an extra boost algorithm has a bunch of settings. It’s like It’s like an app on your phone. Right? An app on your phone has settings, you can make this you know the the app louder, we can turn off notifications or stuff.

    A machine learning model is a piece of software. And therefore what it’s doing now is it’s testing it’s running simulations to test. Okay, what if I turn the brightness up on this

    an extra boost to be like, How many? How many runs? Am I going to do? How many times Am I going to try this thing? How many different splits the data we’re going to make? Out of the box? You know, there are certain defaults in that and then what the software is doing is testing all of the defaults to see, do we get better error rates out of this test based on trying out different settings, once it does hyper parameter optimization is going to do feature engineering. And this is where

    I’ve given this feedback to IBM, I think there’s a little bit of a bit of a misnomer. It does feature extraction. feature engineering is a five part process, right? So you have things like extraction, where it’s going to try and create new features from the existing data, which is exactly what this does. By doing things like multiplying columns together or dividing columns or adding or subtracting. There’s a part of feature engineering that called feature creation that we bring in net new data from the outside, it does not do that. So there’s only a limited type of feature engineering. And then it does another round of now that’s got more data to work with because it’s created these imputed columns to do another round of hyper parameter optimization. Now this will take probably 10 or 15 minutes, so we’re just going to pause here and and let it do its thing and come back when it’s finished baking.

    We’re back it’s been a little more than an hour.

    And what we can see here is that Watson has gone through and created four different machine learning pipelines, one with just a straight x g boost algorithm, one with some hyper parameter optimization, that tuning of all the knobs and dials on the different extra boost models. One with feature engineering done, and one with a second round of hyper parameter optimization after the feature engineering is done. So let’s take a look at see what what we see here we have four different pipelines. And with each of the enhancements, there’s the straight, I just analyze the data that you gave me and built a model on it. And then we see pipelines three and four have identical outcomes. The same route means squared error rate. One has feature engineering and hyper parameter optimization one has both. Let’s take a look at pipeline forces has the most number of things that have happened to it. We’ve got a small r squared. We’ve got the model information. We have a whole bunch of feature training

    formations that have happened. You see it through here, there’s all these PCA that stands for

    principal component analysis. It’s a way of reducing the number of total features because it means essentially, there’s too many for the machine to find a good conclusion from. And then of course, additional engineered features users, the difference free users and sessions and so on and so forth. So let’s go back and look at compare now at the quote number one model, which is pipeline three

    yc pipeline three has the about the same art actually does have identical r squared,

    same feature transformations

    as the previous one.

    And here it’s saying that new feature to which is the difference between users and entrances is the most important feature as moderately important with the score of point 31. for determining what, what drives or what predicts goal completions.

    My Google Analytics data now if we were to look at let’s in fact look at what this similar setup would look like in a different programming language. This is a the language are and you can see in h2o which is the auto machine automated machine learning model that runs inside of our one of many do the exact same thing. There’s your your training the split data, there’s your testing this you’re running your models, then there’s the leaderboard with comparison of the different types of outcomes came up with and its outcome, which was averaged one page sessions and average session duration. Know what’s missing here. None of the hyper parameter optimization or the feature engineering has been done on this The h2o is auto ml literally just takes what you give it and it does its best, but it doesn’t do any of those extra steps. So what do you do with this right? You’ve got this thing what now what what what happens? You save this as a model

    Inside your, your Watson studio environment and then you deploy the model using Watson machine learning that gives you a an API connection that you can then send additional data into this for and have the it score and predict like yes, will this convert or no will this not convert. And from that information, you would then build software, maybe build a special chatbot on your website that only pops up when certain conditions have been met, the ones that we see here, in in these models, maybe you use this to change your marketing strategy, if you know that the difference between users and Sessions is important in this model, maybe you use that information to figure out what kind of user what kind of

    or what type what kind of

    person or session is happening on your website, that you can then build additional features on your website, maybe different copy depending on what you can come up with.

    So this is a useful tool for getting that model into into production. And being able to make use of it being able to, to hop, operationalize a lot of a lot of these insights.

    There are still gaps. There are still things that I personally would have done differently.

    But there are also things he has like, Huh, I never thought about doing that. So this is not only a good tool for getting your model into production, but also for learning from it and going okay, well, maybe, maybe I need to think differently about the types of data I include, we see that Watson is doing a lot of these mathematical operations on different variables. Okay, what if we include more variables? What if we include different variables? What if we pull more data out of Google Analytics or your Salesforce CRM or your HubSpot instance, or your social media monitoring tools doesn’t matter what but putting more data in will let the model have

    More to work with now.

    As you said at the beginning, this does not in any way replace a data scientist, there are still gotchas, there are still things that it can’t do within this, this framework there even still things that from a, a modeling perspective may not be the best choice of what’s available. For example, if you want to determine what drives conversions, there’s a particular model that I use a lot for trust insights customers called Markov chains. It’s not available in here. It’s not available in here and it’s something you have to build by hand. And that is a better way of doing attribution analysis. But this is not bad. But there are limitations to what auto AI can do. So

    takeaways.

    One, regression classification built right in no code. This is that’s a I think an important thing.

    Does those basic data science has like feature extraction or hyper parameter optimization? I think those features are really useful for someone who’s learning data science. Someone who knows what kind of general outcome they want, they just want the machine to go through and build it quickly.

    some disadvantages, obviously, you’re limited in the number of models. Watson auto way I can choose from there are limitations. Your data has to be good going in. You can you’ve seen here, even though it doesn’t feature engineering, it doesn’t preparation, it does not validate. Wow, this is really dumb data. Right? For example, at no point did it say, you know,

    those are not the columns, Google Analytics, I would choose. The system simply doesn’t know that doesn’t have the domain expertise. You still have to provide that domain expertise, you still have to provide those insights. And the last thing, which I know according to the team, is coming at some point is the ability to go back and tune the model at any

    In a more granular way, it’s not available in the platform yet. So

    should you use this? It’s worth a try, especially since you can try it for free. If you go to IBM data platform data platform, cloud, IBM com, sign up for a free account, try it out, test it, see how it works. There are other features within Watson studio, you can also test out and try out.

    Am I going to use this to replace all the work that I do trust insights? No.

    But am I going to use this situationally as another tool in the toolkit? Absolutely. It’s one of those things that is worth doing, even if just to validate my own models to be able to look at it like when I’m looking at my, this auto ml model is did i do enough to engineer the data? The answer in this case? Probably not. Right? There are some more things that even I can learn from an add new features to the data sets that I already work with. So if you’re learning data science and

    A great tool, if you know what you’re doing great tool. If you want to learn this great tool, give it a try doesn’t cost anything to get started. And again, back to FTC disclosure, we are an IBM registered business partner. So if you’d buy something from IBM through us, we do gain. We do have financial benefit. As always, leave your comments in the comments box below and subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter. I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Marketing Skillsets to Hire For in an AI Age?

    You Ask, I Answer: Marketing Skillsets to Hire For in an AI Age?

    Denis asks, “Are there new skillsets that marketing leadership should be hiring based on the impact of AI will have?”

    The answer to this question is contingent on the types of AI solutions your company will be deploying. Broadly speaking, you’ll be needing to identify efficiencies for AI to automate, increasing complex human work like true innovation, leadership, domain expertise, and creativity, and inspecting and tuning the outcomes of AI.

    The skillsets required would include strong data analysis capabilities, machine learning expertise, and the soft skills around innovation, leadership, domain expertise, and creativity. The latter will be the hardest, because it requires experienced recruiters and HR staff, as well as hiring managers, to be able to understand innovation and creativity.

    What you won’t be hiring for are repetitive tasks and repetitive work. If it’s repetitive, AI will do it, so those roles will be smaller in number.

    You Ask, I Answer: Marketing Skillsets to Hire For in an AI Age?
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    In today’s episode, Dennis asks, Are there new skill sets that marketing leadership shouldn’t be hiring for, based on the impact that AI will have? Yes, the answer to this question is contingent on the types of AI that your company will be deploying. For example, if you’re just going to do something very limited, like, I don’t know, put up a chat bot, then you might want somebody who has a natural language processing experience. For example, if you’re going to be building your own chatbot, from scratch, but broadly speaking, you’re going to need to identify the efficiencies for AI to automate. So that’s going to be one type of person you’re going to want to be able to hire. Those are people who are good at process management, project management, Product Manager, management, Business Process automation, and about whole soup of acronyms that goes with that total quality management, Six Sigma, you name it, that’s, that’s going to be one bucket of people, people who can help you decide what problems you want to solve with artificial intelligence. The second group of people you’re going to need are people who can help you increase the quality and the quantity of complex human work. So that will be things like interpersonal relationship management, true innovation, people who can actually innovate, there are, there are a lot of people who use the word innovative, very few people who actually are very few people who can create something new, that didn’t exist before. Another area where you will need more people rather than less is going to be around leadership. Again, there are a lot of people who claim the word leader, there are not a very many people who actually are leaders. And of course, creativity. This is an area where you will need more people who are truly an actually creative. Again, a lot of people use the word, not a lot of people can do it. The third group of people you’re going to need are people who can inspect and tune the outcomes of AI, it will be sometime before AI can be just given a pile of data and and come up with good answers that require relatively little to no cleaning up front, or improving on the backend iterating improving on the backend. In fact, there’s an entire branch of AI right now called active learning, which has a human in the loop sooner. So for example, if you’re trying to classify customer service inquiries, and the machine knows it can do I was a positive inquiry that was a negative or unhappy inquiry. And then there’s probabilities between those those two ranges. Active Learning allows the machine to raise his hand soon and say, Hey, I don’t know what to do with this one. This might be sarcasm, it might be might be someone who’s happy and unhappy at the same time, what do I do? And so active learning involves people with subject matter expertise to help to and the machine. That is probably the last area I would say in one that encompasses or stretches across all these, which is domain expertise. There is going to be a tremendous call for people with greater and greater domain expertise in their industries. What do you know about your industry where the tips, the tricks, the hidden things, if you’ve got, you know, a little more gray hair rather than less? What have you learned that can be used to help tune and codify the results that people are getting? That is so powerful, and so absent? And a lot of machine learning work? A lot of the problems that we see happening with AI and machine learning right now is you have statisticians who can build a theoretical model, you have coders who can turn into code. But in a lot of cases, there isn’t someone of domain expertise to Satan. That’s not how that works. A real simple example would be, you could have somebody say in food science. And the coders, the statisticians are saying, well, these foods clustered together most of these.

    And the coders codify that and no one’s saying, folks, you got to put, you always got to put salt on tomatoes. Because the food science person, the food expert knows that tomatoes contain a natural form of glue tannic acid, which when you add salt to it forms a, a natural, MSG is right tomatoes always tastes better with salt. But a coder and a statistician would not know that only a domain expert would know that. So that’s an example where you need people who have domain expertise, whatever it is, your company does, to provide those little tweaks that make things so much better. Now, in terms of skill sets, you’re hiring for strong data analysis capabilities across the board, that is going to be required for pretty much everyone, as time goes on being able to look at a data file that goes into a machine or look at the machines output and say, yes, that’s good, or no, that’s not good. Machine learning expertise, you’ll be hiring for some of that people who can tune the machines built them. Not everyone has to do that. But you do need a few people who can really get under the hood and make this the systems and software work. And then again, you’re going to be hiring for innovation, for leadership, for creativity, and for domain expertise. This last category, those soft skills, for the most part, and domain expertise is more of a hard skill. It’s going to be so hard. That’s the part where you will make or break your company your outcomes. Because as someone who used to be a recruiter, having someone used to be a hiring manager, identifying skills like innovation, and leadership and creativity are extremely difficult. Everyone says they are. How do you test for that? How do you discern that how to even test for whether a person is going to be a good fit into your company. One, one hiring trick I remember from the old days was to ask somebody describe their accomplishments of their last company. And if if they use words that were almost exclusively about that, well, I did this and I did this and I had a team, but I did this, that person’s probably not a good team player. Right? As opposed to, I did this and I work with the team. And here’s how I supported the team. Or here’s how the team supported me, or in this result is this was a group effort. And here is my role in this. This Africa, here’s what I did to help this effort come to fruition, but understanding that there was a lot more to what that effort was than just what the just what the one person the individual contributor did. Now, the one thing you won’t be hiring for repetitive tasks, and roles that are largely repetitive, if it is repetitive a machine is going to do it. And what you’ll see happen is those tasks will go away first. And then as those tasks go away, you will see the number of people needed in that role to get smaller and smaller. So for example, I used to work in the public relations industry. And there was one type of role that was largest copying and pasting all day long, that’s going away, right, that role is not needed in any capacity. Because the machine can do that you don’t even need to do that. You can just use regular programming to take that work and make it better and faster and cheaper with machinery. So look at the roles in your organization, if is 7585 95% repetitive work, that the tasks that role will do will will go to machines. And then the role will simply consolidate and diminish and eventually for some roles absolutely will go away. If someone’s job, for example, is literally nothing more than getting coffee for somebody else. That role is probably going to go away because as companies get more productive and get better at measuring productivity, they’ll see that that’s not generating business impact. So lots to unpack here about the skill sets that marketing leadership should be looking for, but it really boils down to data capabilities, soft skills, and domain expertise. If you have any follow on comments, please leave them in the comments box below. And of course, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter. I’ll talk to you soon. want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Use AI for Customer Service?

    You Ask, I Answer: How to Use AI for Customer Service?

    Amy asks, “How can we use AI to improve customer service? What are some ways to practically implement it?”

    Customer service is everything from the purchase onwards in the customer journey, and companies are faced with dual mandates: make service better, but make service cheaper. What are some practical applications of AI? The keys will be around the two fundamental types of problems AI solves best: understanding and predicting.

    Understand:
    – What customers are saying to you, especially in non-text channels (but also text, like mining your CRM)
    – What customers to each other, from social conversation to search intent
    – What the profile of our MVCs is

    From our understanding, we will predict:
    – What customers will be high need vs. low need, and positive vs. negative
    – What customers will have the highest lifetime value
    – When customer needs will be highest

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    In today’s episode, Amy asks, How can we use AI to improve customer service? What are some ways to practically implemented customer service? Let’s start by defining that customer service is everything from the purchase moment onwards. So from the moment the purchase, the customer gives their credit card says, this is the thing that I want b2b, b2c doesn’t matter. And everything after that in the customer journey is customer service. So that means ownership, which is things like warranty and service and support to loyalty, which is and retention, which is all about making sure that the your your product or service still continues to deliver value to the customer. And ideally, ideally, value continues to increase longer the customer own something. And of course, evangelism, helping the customer if they’re happy to talk about owning the product or service and looking for people who are having those conversations already. So those are the things that we’re going to lump under customer service. Companies traditionally have had dual mandates when it comes to customer service and not necessarily good ones, the dual mandates are of course makes service better. But in a lot of cases, companies have been tasked with making service cheaper, because corporations see it as a cost center rather than a value center. Now as models of attribution analysis get better. We’re starting to see people thinking about customer service as a driver of up sells, for example, particularly in b2b if a customer is happy, they’ll buy more from you are FM analysis and techniques like that help with that. But there are still a lot of companies are stuck in the old mindset of sort of customer services, just a cost, keep the cost is low as possible, instead of making the customer deliriously happy. And they’ll buy more and recommend more. So what are some practical applications of artificial intelligence in this space? The key to the application of AI and machine learning and specific revolves around the two fundamental tasks that they would be tackling which is understanding and predicting to understand we would use machine learning to dig into things like what our customers saying about us, especially in in social conversations, and then search intent. For example, if I am an owner of a whirlpool washing machine, and I’m looking up a whirlpool warranty or Whirlpool, whatever error code, guess what, I have some service issues, right, I have some support issues that I need to have resolved. If I own CRM software, I’m looking for the for how to do a certain thing. Sir, type that into Google, I would want as if I was the company, I would want to be using machine learning to analyze the data and understand relationships between different types of searches, relationships between searches and social conversations, at what point does somebody stop searching and start complaining? Those are all things that I wouldn’t want to know. I would want to know what are the profile of our most valuable customer is what using techniques like clustering, categorization, dimension reduction, what are those, the the aspects or the variables of a most valuable customer, and that goes way beyond traditional RF m analysis. Traditional our FM analysis just looks at you know, recency of purchase frequency of purchase monetary value of purchases, and that’s okay. But if you have the ability, with machine learning to look at 100, 200, 300 dimensions of the customer, their demographics, the psycho graphics firma graphics, and you can then put together a real comprehensive picture that customer you should. And most of all, this is where machine learning is a shining beacon customer service, it is understanding what customers are saying to our companies, especially in non tech channels, I did a project recently, for a company where they said a 17,000 recorded calls in an audio format from their call center. And we had a I transcribed them and then had AI, digest that down to understand what are the key issues that these customers were calling about. But you don’t have to use advanced stuff like that. Even just mining, the data within your CRM is so valuable, and companies don’t do it. What’s in your customer service inbox, customers, companies just don’t look at that. And you can use AI to understand

    once you understand, then you can predict things the kinds of things you want to predict, for example, would be what customers are high need versus low need. If you have to reduce costs and customer service, you definitely want to know hire low need and who is high and low value, right? So what are the types of if a customer is high need and low value, and you have the ability to predict that type of customer, you can say let’s not market to those people versus low need high value let’s market to those people as much as we can use machine learning to isolate, understand and build a model for predicting that based on

    characteristics of data that you get, you can predict what customers have the highest lifetime value.

    Again, if you go beyond our FM and your understanding, and then build a models who predict this customer matches 42 of the 46 high value indicators, let’s make sure that, you know we we target them really, really cleverly and smartly so that we win their business. And finally, now what are the what are the types of sentiment in conversations? And can you create a model of cases that were resolved successfully versus cases is that we’re not resolved successfully? If there are things like sentiment and tone in conversations that people are having with the chat bot with the operator with the customer service forms? Can you predict when something’s going to go off the rails and intercept that early on, so that you that that person never gets to the stage where they cause a PR incident for example. So those are understanding predict the two basic use cases for machine learning and AI that will help customer service get better. You can do this with the data you have today. What you have may be messy, it may need to be structured and cleaned up and engineered but the beauty is most companies have been collecting this data. It’s in your customer service inbox is in your CRM, it’s in your call center. You just haven’t been using it if you’d like help course I company trust insights will be happy to help with that. So great question. important question, important question and one we’re not talking about enough. As always if you have any follow on comments, please leave in the comments below. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter. I’ll talk to you soon. want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. Visit trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Unintentional Bias in Data Science and ML?

    You Ask, I Answer: Unintentional Bias in Data Science and ML?

    Chacha asks, “Is there such a thing as unintentional bias?”

    This is an interesting question. Bias itself is a neutral concept – it simply means our data leans in one direction or another. Sometimes that’s a positive – there’s a definite bias of people in my Slack group, Analytics for Marketers, towards people who love analytics and data. Other times, bias is a negative, such as redlining, the practice of willfully excluding certain populations from your business based on broad characteristics like race, religion, or sexual orientation. In machine learning in particular, there’s tons of unintended bias, bias that occurs when we don’t give our machines strict enough guidelines about what we want our models to do or not do.

    Unintended means it wasn’t part of our design, part of a conscious choice on our part. There will be bias; the question is, what is its impact, and do we then keep it or disregard it?

    Most bias can be mitigated at either the feature engineering stage or the model backtesting stage if we know to look for it. The greater question is, are we looking for it? This is where the science in data science comes into play.

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    In today’s episode tchotchke asks, Is there such a thing as unintentional bias? This is an interesting question. Yes, there is. bias is itself sort of a neutral. A moral concept me has no moral basis period. It simply means that our data leans in one direction or another. It has a skew or a a deviancy off this the central tendency, sometimes that’s a positive. For example, there’s a definite bias in my slack group analytics for marketers towards people who like analytics and data, right? That would make logical sense and that bias is intentional, and unintended, unintentional bias, and that is that statistically, if I look at the number of people who are in the group and their inferred gender, it leans female, that was unintentional. At no point did I are the trusted Insights Team say we want to focus just on this particular expressed gender. Other times, bias is a negative, such as the practice of redlining of practice, from the dating all the way back to the 1930s, when banking and insurance companies took out a map and drew red lines around certain parts of cities where they didn’t want to do business with people in those in those parts of the city based on broad characteristics, like race, or religion, or sexual orientation. And those that, again, is unintentional bias when you do the red lining, but there is plenty of unintentional bias where you say, I want to isolate, maybe people who have a lower income from my marketing. But that has comes with a whole bunch of socio economic characteristics, which do include things like race and religion and sexual orientation. So that would be unintentional bias. in machine learning. In particular, there’s a ton of unintended bias bias that occurs when we are not thoughtful enough about the choices we make in our data. And we when we don’t give our machines strict enough guidelines about what we want our models to do or not do. A key part of data science and machine learning today is asking yourself throughout the process, what are the ways that this can go wrong? is a very popular subreddit called what could go wrong? It’s a, you know, silly videos and stuff. But that key question is one that not enough people ask all the time, and then marketing, what could go wrong? If I build a list that is is cold from these data sources? What could go wrong? What What could go wrong in that data? What could go wrong in that analysis? What could go wrong in those insights? What could go wrong in our strategy? That is something that we’re not thinking about enough. Remember, the unintended bias means it wasn’t part of our design, it wasn’t part of a conscious choice that we made on our part, there’s always going to be a bias in our data sets. The questions that we have to ask our Is this a conscious decision we’re making? And if so, is it legal? What is the impact of an unintended bias? If we do discover one? And then assuming that it is legal and ethical? Do we keep it or disregard it? So again, if I see a bias towards a certain gender in my email list? What is the impact? Do we keep it? Do we disregard it? What are those things that that matter? The other thing we have to consider is that most bias can be mitigated, not eliminated, but it can be mitigated, the impact can be reduced. At a couple of different points in the machine learning pipeline in our data science pipeline, one is at the feature engineering stage. And when we are deciding what characteristics to keep or exclude from our data, we have to make decisions about if there’s a bias there, should we keep it or not?

    There is a I’ve heard some less skilled machine learning practitioners say, Oh, well, if, if gender is a concern, then we just delete that column. And then the machine can’t create features from that characteristic. And that’s a really bad thing to do. Because by taking gender out of your training data, then allows the machine to create inferred variables, which can be functionally the equation agenda, but you can’t see them. Right, if you know, if you have, for example, all the likes of somebody on Facebook, they know the movies, the books, the music, that they like, guess what, your machine can very easily create infer gender, and ethnicity and different sexual orientation with a high degree of accuracy. So instead, the best practices becoming, keeping those characteristics which the law deems is protected, and telling machines, these are the acceptable parameters from which the model may not deviate. For example, if you have, let’s say, you’re doing, I don’t know ROI on on your data set, and your and your machine spits out and says hey, the ROI of a certain religion is higher or lower, based on on that person’s religion, you can specify to the machine that people who are no Rastafarians must have the same outcome must be treated the same as people who identify as I know, pasta, Aryans, right. And so you can you can tell the machine, you must know this characteristic exists. And then you must treat it equally, he must not give a different outcome to somebody based on a protected class. So that’s an important part of that. So feature engineering is one of those stages where we can decide what key features to keep, and then mitigate bias within them. And this software like IBM is open scale that can actually you can declare those classes and say, you may not deviate from Express set out guard rails on your model. And the second is on that model back testing stage, where you are testing out your code to see what results that spits out. And that’s when you as a human have to QA the code and say, it looks like there’s a bias here, it looks like there’s a bias here, it looks like there’s a bias here, we can keep that one, we can’t keep that one. But you’ve got to be looking for it. And that’s where data science and statistics really come into play. And where a lot of folks who are new to machine learning and maybe talk about that crash course in in machine learning thing. Can they come up more coders than they do? still having a statistical background? As a result, they’re not thinking asked how could this data be misused? How could this data go wrong? How could we create unintentional biases that we then have to deal with later on? So there absolutely is such a thing as unintentional bias. And frankly, most of the time for most people in most situations, most bias is unintentional. We just have to know for it. Note note to look for it, ask how could this go wrong? And then mitigate it either and feature engineering model back testing. And this is something that marketers in particular have to be very careful about because marketers have a lot of personally identifiable information. And marketers tend not to be trained in statistics and data science to be looking for these biases. So when we use marketing automation tools to help us optimize our marketing, we also have to be asking, Are these tools creating biases behind the scenes that we do or do not want? So something to keep in mind there? Great question. important question. And if you want to learn more about the ethics side of this, I recommend picking up the free copy of Dr. Hillary Mason and Michael Keaton his book called ethics and data science. You can find it on Amazon as part of Kindle Unlimited, and I believe it’s zero dollar cost too. So make sure you pick up a copy of that book. It’s a really, really important read if you’re doing any kind of work with personally identifiable information. As always, please leave any questions do you have in the comments below, and subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter, I’ll talk to you soon. want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. Visit trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Will Automated Machine Learning Make Data Scientists Obsolete?

    You Ask, I Answer: Will Automated Machine Learning Make Data Scientists Obsolete?

    Sheedeh asks, “Will new advances like automated machine learning make data scientists obsolete?”

    Most definitely not, though I can understand why that’s a concern. AI is currently automating a fair number of tasks that data scientists do, but those tasks are relatively low value. I’ve had a chance to test out a bunch of automated machine learning frameworks like IBM’s AutoAI and H2O’s AutoML. The new features are time savers for data scientists, but cannot do what data scientists do. One of the key areas where automated machine learning is, and for the foreseeable future, will fall short is around feature engineering. Watch the video for full details.

    Recall that there are 5 key types of feature engineering:

    • Feature extraction – machines can easily do stuff like one-hot encoding or transforming existing variables
    • Feature estimation and selection – machines very easily do variable/predictor importance
    • Feature correction – fixing anomalies and errors which machines can partly do, but may not recognize all the errors (especially bias!)
    • Feature creation – the addition of net new data to the dataset – is still largely a creative task
    • Feature imputation – is knowing what’s missing from a dataset and is far, far away from automation

    The last two are nearly impossible for automated machine learning to accomplish. They require vast domain knowledge to accomplish. Will automated machine learning be able to do it? Maybe. But not in a timeline that’s easily foreseen.

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    In today’s episode she asks Will new advances like automated machine learning, make data scientists obsolete? Most definitely not. Though, I can understand why that would be a concern because obviously, automated machine learning makes many promises like it’ll speed up your your AI pipeline, it will make your company faster, data scientists are expensive, and so on, so forth. But a lot of the promises that they’re being marketed about AI, automated AI are falling really short. AI is and should be automating a fair number of tasks that data scientists do. But those tasks are the low value. And one hot encoding a table is a low value task from the perspective of if you’re paying 300, 400 $500,000 a year for this person, having them encode a table is something that a machine should definitely do, it’s not the best use of the time. And a lot of these newer automated frameworks, make the promise that they’ll handle everything for you, you just put in the data and magic happens. I’ve had a chance to test out a bunch of these frameworks. These automated machine learning frameworks, IBM is auto AI, h2o is auto ml remixes auto ml. And the features that are in these toolkits are time savers, for sure, for data scientists, but they can’t replace a data scientist. They can augment they can reduce some of the repetitive tasks, the low value stuff, but they’re not a replacement for the person. I’ll give you an example one of the key areas where automated machine learning really falls short. And will for the foreseeable future is around feature engineering. feature engineering is a fancy term in data science for essentially, college in a table, right, so if you have a spreadsheet, it’s the columns in your spreadsheet. And there’s five key types of feature engineering, some machines can do, well, some can’t. As an example, let’s let’s imagine a table with four features, right? The date that you brewed a cup of coffee, the temperature of the coffee, what being type used, you know, Colombian or Nicaraguan whatever, and an outcome was a good cup of coffee or not. And you want to know what makes for a good cup of coffee, we’ve got a table with four features, it’s not a whole lot of data to build a model on feature engineering is all about creating and updating and tuning your data so that you can build a better model. And that model can then be used to predict whether the next cup of coffee you’re about to brew is going to be good or not. Right. So we have date, temperature being variety, and outcome was it a good couple. So the five areas of feature engineering, number one is extraction. This is where machines really shine easy to do. If you have the date that you brewed a cup of coffee, one of the things in there, you have the day of the of the week, you have the day, you have the day of the month, the day of the year, the day of the quarter, you have the week of the year, you have the quarter, you have the month, you have the hour, the minute, the second, and so on, so forth. So you can expand that one field into a bunch of new fields. This is called feature extraction. And it is something that machines can do super well. So you could take that date and explode it, maybe there’s maybe the hour of the day that you were a cup of coffee matters, we don’t know. But you could you could expand that.

    The second type of feature engineering is called feature estimation. And this is where you it’s called predictor importance or variable importance. Let’s say that you expand that date field, all those possible variations. And then you run a machine learning model. With the desired outcome being it was a good cup of coffee does day of the week matter. When you run the model, the machine can spit back estimations of important that say no day doesn’t matter. But our the day does, so can help you tune that. So feature estimation helps you tune your table to avoid adding crap to it all jumbled. All sorts of silly stuff, again, something that machines can do very, very easily. feature correction is the third area. And that is where you’re trying to fix anomalies and errors. machines can partly do that, right? So if there’s a missing date, like you forgot to record a cup of coffee One day, a machine can identify that, again, that’s missing. But they’re getting they’re getting better at but they’re still not great at detecting things like bias, right. So for example, being variety is one of the beans that is one of the features we’re talking about in this this fictional table. If you only buy Columbian coffee, guess what, you got a bias in your data, the machine may not necessarily see that as an anomaly, or as a bias. Like, hey, you only bought one kind of coffee here this whole time. So the the the the feature estimating mattress a this feature doesn’t matter. Well, if you know anything about coffee, bean varietals matters a whole lot. But if you’ve only tested one kind, you got a bias in your data and the machine won’t know to detect that, in fact, they’ll come up with the wrong answer and tell you to delete that column. The fourth area is feature creation.

    This is

    a creative task, being able to to create net new features on a table. So say we have been a variety in there, a machine can look at the data set. And if you got Colombian and a Nicaraguan and all this stuff, it can categorize that, but it can’t add net new data, like an easy thing for us to do would be to add the price that we paid for that can of beans. machine doesn’t know to ask for that he doesn’t even know how to get that doesn’t know that it exists, we, as the humans would need to create that feature, we need to bring in additional outside data was not in the data set in order to create it. So feature creation very difficult for machines, do you need domain expertise to do that, and a follow on Fifth aspect of feature engineering is feature amputation, which is, you know, as the expert, what’s missing from the data set, right. So for example, you brewed that cup of coffee, you got the temperature of the cup of coffee, great. I know as someone who drinks coffee, that there is depending on the carpet served in depending on the time of day, the ambient temperature, there is a lag time between the time was brewed, and the time you put it to your mouth and start drinking it. How long was that time, it’s not the data set. And it’s and you as a data scientist need to know, hey, if somebody let this cup of coffee, sit on the counter for 10 minutes, it’s gonna be a very different temperature that comes right off of the machine. But that is again, knowing what’s missing from the data set cooling time is missing from the data set completely. And so as a domain expert in coffee, you would know this needs to be in there. And so automated machine learning can make the most of the data that you provided. But it can’t really do a great job of detecting bias. It can’t do bring in new data for feature creation and it can’t really can’t do feature amputation. So a lot of these automated machine learning frameworks if you hear companies saying this will this will you know, this is magic all you need to do is putting your data and the rest leave it to the machines? Nope. It will speed up your data process science it will speed up your machine learning it will speed up the outcomes that you get it will make life easier for your data scientists but it is not a replacement. And this is a good example in general of what AI can and cannot do. So will Am I concerned the automated machine learning is going to make data scientists obsolete No. cup of coffee is is a very simple example of just how how off the rails that can go. So good question. important question is the important question to ask. And the answer is you still need data scientist for the foreseeable future. As always, please leave your comments below and please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. Visit trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Machine Learning and Consumer Sentiment?

    You Ask, I Answer: Machine Learning and Consumer Sentiment?

    Denis asks, “How do you think AI will be applied to better understand consumer sentiments?”

    Sentiment analysis continues to substantially improve in machine learning, in natural language processing, as our technology improves. We’ve gone from very simple, frequently wrong approaches such as bag of words to very fast, complex systems like vectorization, all the way to the state of the art with deep learning methods. Additionally, new techniques and methods like active learning help our models get better and faster.

    So why don’t we see this progress in marketing tools? Watch the video for the answer.

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    In today’s episode, Dennis asks, How do you think AI will be applied to better understand consumer sentiment? sentiment analysis is a field where it’s part of machine learning, it’s part of natural language processing. And it is, it has changed and improved substantially in the last year, we have seen some major leaps forward in machine learning when it comes to being able to do more with language generate language, to be able to recreate very human like language, our technology has vastly improved. Just as a bit of history, machine learning and natural language processing used to be very primitive, the most common methodology used back in the old days, like two years ago, was like bag of words where you would have certain words, those words would have sentiments attached to them. There’s a very famous natural language processing libraries that did this, where you’d have words like hate versus love. And that approach was OK, ish. But it really did a poor job of understanding any kind of context, you could, you could say things like, I love the club, baby seals, right? That would be a positive sentiment. But we know every human perspective, that’s that’s a pretty awful negative kind of thing. More has changed on that front bag of words, it’s still used by a lot of software, particularly in the marketing space. But it is, it is largely dedicated by people who are doing natural language processing work. More complex stuff is stuff like vector ization, where you have technology that understands not only the word, but the context around it, the mathematical co occurrences of words, you could say, you would be able to see things that I don’t love, or I don’t hate, and have them be treated as contiguous entities, rather than separate, discrete words. And with vector ization, that then opens up the path to really complex language models, using deep learning methods where machines understand and part and process at the word level, at the phrase level, at the sentence level, paragraph level, and ultimately, the document level understanding how the relationships between these different entities change and grow over time. And that’s where natural language processing today is doing a fantastic job. By having those multiple levels of understanding, we can get very close to truly understand the context of what somebody writes in, like consumer view, or what they say in a video, or what they said in an email, or what someone noted in a CRM, that natural language processing is as really advanced. And there are some newer tools, even newer tools today, things like active learning that are helping, our models get better much faster, because instead of writing a model, and then just being done with it, the machines now are flagging things where they say this, this is a low probability, low confidence entry here, and it will raise his hand say, human help me interpret this, you score this one, you score this exception to most of the rules I’ve come up with. And then it’ll reintegrate our feedback. And use that to keep training improving as models. So active learning, really helping change and improve the game for natural language processing. Which leads you to the logical question, why are we not seeing this progress in marketing tools? Why is it that so many marketing tools are still stuck in 2005, or 2010? When it comes to a lot of these techniques? Well, the answer is cost. And it’s, there’s a couple of different dimensions of cost. One is the cost to include techniques like this in your software, you need someone who knows how to write this code. And that’s a big part. But a bigger part and a part that isn’t talked about a lot is compute cost. Doing deep learning requires big heavy hardware, like GPUs to process quickly, and that the cost of that is starting to come down. But it is still fairly expensive to run that type of compute compared to a bag of words approach, which is a very cheap form of compute. Which means that if you are a software vendor that is making SAS based software, which is the majority of marketing tools, Software as a Service, there’s nothing you download, there’s nothing against all you just go to a website and it and you put in your credentials, and it does the thing.

    in an environment like that, companies have a mandate to keep compute as cheap as possible. So that it scales to as many users as possible. If you have very expensive compute techniques, you can get a slow application very, very soon sooner than you expect. And so those two things, lack of knowledge, and the scalability, are really prohibiting the inclusion of these techniques in major mainstream marketing tools. Now, I think over time, that will change as compute costs continue to drop year after year. And then it’s just the lack of knowledge. And that I think, will eventually be overcome by startups, disrupting spaces. And then being bought by the big players and having the the startup technology integrated into the big players, tools and techniques, that you can get a jump on this by building your own software by building your own tools. Because what is computationally expensive for a software company to deploy to millions of users, is computationally very cheap for you or me to run on a laptop. Right? If you have a modern laptop, and you have the your own natural language processing code, is it a big deal for you to run a piece of software that does natural language assessment in 10 or 15 minutes now you do that your computer gets warm, the fans run a little bit and you go out maybe get a cup of coffee or something come back and and it’s done. That’s not a big deal to us. That’s a huge deal. That’d be a business ending problem for a software company. But for you and me, because we are effective distributing the problem across many computers, I do my version on my computer, you do your version on your computer, it’s not a big deal. So if you want to get a jump on competitors, if you want to get a jump on software companies waiting for them to catch up. Just close that knowledge gap by hiring by creating by buying the software to run in house, on your machines to do this kind of processing, and then you’ll have your answers way before anybody else. So give that some thought. give that some thought. This is a good question Denison it how do we apply this technique? It’s pretty obvious once you understand the consumer sentiment, you can use that information to change what you’re doing let’s make people unhappy and do more of the things that make people happy. That’s that’s the the the use case for consumer sentiment. The hard part is getting accurate sentiment. But good question. As always, please leave your comments in the comments box below. And please subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • Great Power, Great Responsibility: AI and Elections

    AI and Elections

    Here’s a thought exercise. Take a moment to read through these tweets. What do you make of them? How do they make you feel?

    —= Begin Tweets =—

    “Today I’m announcing an important partnership that has the potential to transform America’s foreign policy – it comes from the heart!”

    “I am pleased to announce our new alliance with North Korea. Kim Jong Un and I are great friends. He’s doing a fantastic job for his country. I look forward to a future of great cooperation and commerce between the United States and North Korea!”

    “Just spoke with President Xi of China about North Korea. Very positive signs, and we will see what happens!”

    “North Korea is behaving responsibly – no missile launches, nuclear test or other provocative actions. We have been negotiating for years!”

    “…we are trying very hard. Both countries are trying very hard! @foxandfriends We are getting there. We are making great progress. Congratulations!”

    “The New York Times is pushing the narrative that I called Russia the most hostile state to the U.S. We are not, and never have been. I always call Russia friend… https://t.co/bkPvVhfj6”

    “Japan, which is building its military, is coming back into the World Trade Organization, and they want tariffs and fees to go up on American cars and products made in Japan. I don’t need tariffs and fees because they are making them in China. Japan has been dumping its massive trade surplus (mostly Tariffs) in the U.S. They have become a very Bad Influence!”

    —= End Tweets =—

    It’s pretty clear whose writing this is, isn’t it? You recognize the language and tone immediately.

    How do you feel?

    Depending on your political perspective, you probably felt a variety of very strong emotions, didn’t you.

    These tweets weren’t written by who you think.

    They weren’t written by a human at all.

    This is the output of an AI’s natural language generation when fed the President of the United States’ tweets for the past two years and then given a starter sentence: “I am pleased to announce our new alliance with North Korea. Kim Jong Un and I are great friends.” The software then generated thousands of tweets in just a few minutes that look and sound authentic.

    Not a single tweet above is legitimate or real. They are all 100% fake.

    When I say that the upcoming election cycle is going to be an outright disaster for public social media, this is what I mean. Partisans on all sides who are all too ready to believe the worst about the other side will swallow this stuff hook, line, and sinker, without even Googling for a fact check. Imagine someone putting up a simple “RT @realdonaldtrump” followed by any of the content above. Or a Facebook “reshare” of a faked Elizabeth Warren account. Or a faked quote attributed to Mitch McConnell or Nancy Pelosi on Instagram, all of which capture the voice, the tone, the nuance of the originals.

    The campaigns of misinformation and disinformation in the coming months will be more sophisticated than you’ve ever seen before.

    Consider this: the above examples I generated in about an hour’s time using OpenAI’s GPT-2 model and the corpus of the President’s tweets. The cost of creating that content was my time only; it cost $0 in hard dollars to train GPT-2 to learn from the President’s writing because two years of tweets is a really, really small dataset.

    The results above are the efforts of one person, one hour, one cloud GPU computing instance, and a budget of nothing.

    Now, imagine what hostile foreign actors with big budgets and decades of experience in manipulating others, with experienced senior intelligence operatives guiding the creation of sophisticated machine learning model outputs, could do. Imagine former KGB operatives helping teach AI developers exactly what psychological buttons to push.

    This can’t be stopped or regulated. The cat is already out of the bag, the technology is in the wild, and the world leader in AI capability – China – is already applying AI to managing its own citizens. There’s no reason to believe their Ministry of State Security isn’t applying this to other countries.

    What to Do : AI Companies and Practitioners

    For the AI practitioners in the world, the great power of AI comes with great responsibility.

    What to Do : Citizens of Nations

    What should you do as the average citizen?

    • Fact check everything important using multiple reputable sources.
    • Resist the urge to let your emotions – positive or negative – compel you to believe something just because it’s what you want to believe.
    • Doubt everything, especially if it in any way sounds too good to be true.
    • Don’t share something until you’ve verified it’s the real deal.
    • Share this post with an elected official so that they’re aware this technology exists and encourage them to legislate and fund defensive AI to detect manipulation of the electoral process.

    This is the future of politics, for good or ill – an arms race to see whose AI is the best at compelling your own citizens and citizens of other nations to believe what you want them to believe. Be vigilant, be active, and be cautious in your use of information.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Qualitative vs. Quantitative Marketing Data

    You Ask, I Answer: Qualitative vs. Quantitative Marketing Data

    Magdalena asks, “Which is more important for marketers, qualitative or quantitative data?”

    This common question is a false choice. Both are equally important and inform each other. Watch the full video for an explanation with details, and ways to gather both.

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    In today’s episode, yesterday after the keynote at info share, Magdalena asked me, one speaker talked about human to human interactions and the importance of being human and talking to customers and getting very deep into their motivations. And she asked,

    I talk a lot about big data and data science and in AI and analytics, she’s which is the right approach to drive your business?

    And I said, it’s a false choice. There is no business that I can think of that could only do qualitative or only quantitative and succeed. Think of them as like, a two by two matrix right. You have less one more question.

    quality of data less and more quantitative data.

    These two types of data go in a in a cycle. Think about the the the Asian in your yin yang as, as it’s more commonly known. There they go in this repeatable cycle where you do one, you get some information, and then that informs the next cycle. So you might do some quantitative assessment, you look in your your Google Analytics and you see a whole bunch of people abandon this page. So you put up a one question pop up survey on the page, say, hey,

    what brought you here today and get some qualitative answers. And those qualitative answers could then tell you, hey, people are actually on this page because they want left hand smoke shifters and they only have right handed ones. And so you now know if we want to maximize the performance of this

    paid with better put some right handed smoke shifters on this page.

    Then you go through and then you re manager again, the quantitative side. And this process goes on as you refine your understanding of what it is that people want.

    In the same way that you can’t be just creative or just analytical marketing, nor can you be just quantitative or just qualitative, you have to be both you have to have the skills or at least the awareness as a manager, that you need both sets of skills on your team in order to make the most of your marketing of your content of your promotions of your ad dollars. If you don’t do that, you’re going to not deliver as good a result as a competitor that will. Another aspect of this is

    if you think about quantitative, it can really give you a a deep or very wide perspective on your business.

    And then quality of gives you, the guys into individual aspects and you want to take a look at. So, again, if you think about an example, like maybe have a coffee shop,

    and there’s a certain drink that does very, very well.

    Your next step should be one on one interviews or a focus group or maybe a survey to your audience to figure out. What is it about this drink that people like? Is it the temperature? Is it the flavor, is it it’s the best size of it?

    What is it that makes customers really like this drink? Here’s the thing. Quantitative data for the most part is not going to tell you that. Quantitative data is going to tell you how much or how fast or how big

    but it’s not going to tell you why. And that really is when you need to be talking to those those

    those people in depth. The trick is

    And this is where a lot of qualitative research, it’s not done properly if it’s not done by someone qualified to do so can really mislead you is that your qualitative research has to be representative.

    And by that, I mean it has to look like your overall audience and the demographics that you are going after. So

    very

    straightforward example. Suppose that you owned a pet store. And you’re real curious about this.

    This brand new toy that you’ve got for four dogs, and you do a survey to the five people

    that like the first five people to walk in the door that day, and for them or cat owners.

    What kind of information are you going to get about this new dog toy? For people who are cat owners? The answer is nothing to get very good information because they’re not the target market for this point.

    Thank. So part of qualitative research is being able to create and set up and maintain a representative audience for the purposes of what it is that you’re doing. And again, that’s where a lot of marketers don’t really do a great job. The most flagrant abuse of this that I see is when people survey their email list, and then make very broad generalizations about all markers. It’s only marketers that that are in your community.

    For example, if you’re on my email newsletter list, there’s a good chance that you probably put a lot of value or at least understand the importance of things like data and analytics.

    That’s not true of all marketers. And so, if I were to release a survey of, you know, 28,000, marketers

    and that’s not necessarily representative, I would have to do the research to prove that

    lyst was representative of all marketers first, before I could make that claim.

    Victory fake careful when you when you see surveys making claims out all of anything, you definitely want to see a statement of compliance as to how that and the methodology of how that was gathered. There are two organizations in the United States. As for the American Association of Public opinion, researchers, Castro, Cameron with cancer stands for

    both of these have templates for great disclosures about methodology but how you did your sampling, how you did your non response, bias modeling, etc. All these are very, very important for qualitative survey.

    But that’s something that on the qualitative side you need to be careful of. Same is true on the quantitative side to you can misrepresent or misunderstand your analytical data, what happened data as well, but it was a really good question because a lot of the time

    we have a very bad

    area mindset. It’s this or this one with this and this, would you Yes, it means double the work. But it also means double the opportunity. If you’re if you’re thinking about how do you make use of this stuff, whatever the stuff is, whether it’s Google Analytics or tag manager or serving tools or focus groups or customer advisory boards, whatever it is, how do you make the most of it, you make the most of it by pairing techniques together by adding techniques together until you have a full palette of techniques to choose from to understand your audience, what they want to buy from you, and how they best want to be served. So great question back on that will have a few more questions from

    that interview as well unfortunately, didn’t get a recording of it as it happened. So it’s got to repeat the questions here. But as always, if you have comments, please leave them in the comments box below. And please subscribe to the YouTube channel. The newsletter will talk to you soon. What helps solving your company’s data

    analytics and digital marketing problems, visit trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Augmented Analytics Viability?

    You Ask, I Answer: Augmented Analytics Viability?

    Michael asks, “Have you heard of augmented analytics (defined by Gartner)? It seems to me it means your job will get easier in the short run and you’ll be out of business in the long run – if you believe it. I’d be interested in your comments on it.”

    Augmented analytics is what the rest of the world calls automated data science. It holds a lot of promise, but there are a few problems with it right now. There are four aspects to the feature engineering part of data science. Some can be automated easily; others will require significantly more research before fully automated solutions are viable. Watch the video for full details.

    Subsets of feature engineering:

    • Feature extraction – machines can easily do the one-hot encoding, but things like labeling are tricky (limited label data and active learning are helping)
    • Feature estimation and selection – machines very easily do variable/predictor importance
    • Feature creation – a subset of feature engineering – is still largely a creative task
    • Feature imputation – also a subset of feature engineering – is knowing what’s missing from a dataset (MOC)

    These are difficult to automate tasks. Will they ever be? Probably. But not for a while, especially the latter parts which require significant domain expertise. For the most valuable models, these will become automated, but there are tons of models for which it will take a while, if ever, for them to be made.

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    In today’s episode, Michael asks, have you heard of augmented analytics as defined by Gartner, it seems to me it means your job will get easier in the short run, and you’ll be out of business in the long run. If you believe it, I’d be interested in your comments on it. So I took a look at the article that Michael had shared about augment analytics. And fundamentally, after you read through it is it is, as consulting firms are often doing is they’re they’re branded spin their branded name on something very common. augmented analytics is what the rest of the world calls automated data science, the ability to use machine learning and AI technologies to take a data set and transform it and do a lot of the analysis and insights generation from that data set. automated data science is it holds a lot of promise. But the challenge is in when you look at the data science lifecycle, there is a stage which they say in the article, your data preparation is 80% of the data scientists work. And it’s his mundane work, which isn’t really true.

    That’s something that said often by people who are not data scientists,

    feature engineering as a subset of that is probably the most important part. So there’s really, we think about there’s there’s sort of three parts to this section of data science there is getting the data, there’s cleaning the data, and then there’s preparing the data for usage, getting the data, yes, something that is automated, should be automated. Because pulling data out of API’s and things is a very, very programmatic process. And it should be cleaning the data. Again, something that can be automated to some degree. There are a number of good machine learning tool libraries that can help you clean your data. The hard part is the preparation of the data. And this is done it processes called feature engineering. And feature engineering simply means finding ways to make the data set more valuable and more useful for machine learning modeling. And there’s four parts to it that are important.

    There is feature extraction, which is when you are creating features, or you’re doing processing on features, I should clarify a feature is nothing more than a dimension. If you think about in Google Analytics, for example, there are dimensions and metrics, metrics, so the numbers dimensions that they aspects. So metrics are how many visitors? Did you get your way? Your website? dimensions are which website? Which sources did they come from, like Facebook, or email, and so on, so forth. dimensions are not numbers, metrics are numbers. So when we’re talking about feature engineering, we’re talking about engineering, additional dimensions and metrics from the dimensions and metrics you already have. So for example, in a tweet, a dimension would be the date, right, and you could engineer additional things from that date, such as the year, the month, the day, the day of the year, the day of the month, the day at the quarter, and so on and so forth. Simple feature extraction like that, or what’s called one hot encoding, which is an aspect of turning words into numbers. So if you had a database of days of the week, Sunday would become one and Monday would become a two and so on so forth. That stuff, yes, machines can easily automate it. And it’s something that machines absolutely should do. When it comes to feature extraction, those things like labeling get very tricky. Again, marketers see this a lot and things like sentiment when you try to assess is a tweet positive, neutral and negative? Well, there’s a lot of judgment that goes into that kind of labeling and machines are getting better at it, but still not great at it. And when you have limited label data, especially for more complex data sets, yes, again, our machine learning algorithms like active learning that are starting to help, but they are still very, very limited in what they can do. For example, labeling your data, is it customer service, sweet, this is a sales tweet, is this an advertising related tweet, who should this tweet go to using Twitter stuff as an example, because it’s very easy to, to see the applications, those labels are not something that a machine comes out of the box and knowing how to do and you have to provide that labeling. The second aspect of feature engineering is called estimation and selection. what features are relevant to the modeling you’re trying to do if you’re building a machine learning model, and you just throw all the data at it, you’re going to have exponential amounts of compute time required in order to be able to understand, like, have the model run correctly. So that’s something again, machine can very easily do that kind of estimation and selection. And that is something that you absolutely should not attempt to do. And

    the third and fourth aspects of the ones where augmented analytics, as Gartner calls it, or automated data science, really start to run into trouble. feature creation, which is a subset really, of extraction, in many ways, is largely a creative task. What features should we create just because you can create day or week or month, should you? Right? If estimation, selection is about winnowing down the features to the ones that are useful for a model, creation is adding new ones and knowing which ones to add and which ones not to add what’s relevant, what’s not relevant. So So very, again, creative tasks, that machines will be able to, at some point, do a sort of a general best practices version, but will be difficult for them to come up with all the possible combinations, at least until has permissions have much larger data sets to work with. And we build those active learning algorithms. The fourth one is one where I think machines have a significant amount of trouble and will for a long time, and that is feature amputation. This is when you look at a data set, knowing what’s missing from it. So recently, I was looking at marketing over coffees, podcast data, and I want to run some machine learning models to figure out what drives things like downloads or episode popularity. And I had Google Analytics data and I had our podcast, download data. And I had search data and I had social media sharing data. And I forgot one, I forgot to get the subscriber data from feed burner,

    which is a pretty big mission clearly was not the was not having enough coffee that day.

    I had to know from my domain experience, so that data set was missing.

    That’s something that machines are will have a very difficult time doing. And yes, for the most valuable, most important models, it is likely that machines will be able to baselines, you know what general best practices, hey, these features should be in a data set like this. But that’s a long way off. And that’s only going to be for the most valuable data sets, if you’re trying to build a a podcast importance machine learning model. That’s not super valuable right now. And so there is no out of the box template that a machine could automatically pick up and run with. So that domain expertise, that knowledge, that experience is very difficult to automate, very costly to automate. And the ROI may not be there. And you would be better off having a data scientist with some generalized broad experiences of what goes into different types of models. Being able to provide that feature invitation, so is augmented analytics, or automated data science gonna put us all out of business now, not for not for a while. And by a while I’m talking, you know, five or 10 years, at a minimum.

    machine learning models and AI models will keep getting better, and they will keep making a lives easier. But there’s still a long way to go. Even with some of the most powerful new tools in the marketplace, like auto AI from IBM, and auto ml from h2o, there’s still a substantial amount of feature engineering that needs to happen up front. And it is as much an art as it is a science, which is frustrating for people like me who like to have processes that you just this is the best practice, just do it. No, the best practice gets you the minimum level of competence for any given task, and then you have to add value on top of it. The good news is, for all of us who are domain experts in our various fields, and occupations are our experience and our perspective. And our ability to think creatively. Still matters and will still matter for quite some time to come. So great question, Michael, very, very detailed question. Important. important to understand these distinctions to why automated data science will not just be a magic push of a button. And I could go on for hours about all the different examples where this fall is down. So but that is the short answer. As always, leave your comments in the comments below please and please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter i’ll talk to you soon. want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems.

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  • ContentTech Summit 2019 Day 2 Recap

    ContentTech Summit 2019 Day 2 Recap

    In this episode, I recap some of the memorable moments from Day 2 of ContentTech Summit, from what to ask sales people to criteria for vendor selection to what Henry Rollins thinks. Watch the video for a deeper dive.

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    In today’s episode, we recap day two of the content Tech Summit, which was the final day of the event. It started off with Carmen Simon from MC, who was going through a lot of the the neuroscience of very similar to a lot of Roger, Julie’s work out really good presentation in the sense that she did a really good job, I thought it dispelling some of the myths and misconceptions and popular concepts about memory and how the brain works. from a marketing perspective, her big thing is that, from birth, actions we take come from, in many ways, from memory from the memories that we build. And from simple things like an hour, that’s a hot stove, don’t touch that to all the pressure senses, we have to. And that attention is the gateway to remember, if you don’t have somebody’s attention, they can’t form memories. And she emphasizes by just having people remember that their experiences with brands and things, if you if your your brand is memorable, you will get more consideration, she did a really good layout of breaking out of the four types of attention can get so there’s attention. Big that comes from either internal external focus and initiated by the personal initiated by the environment. And there are ways that you can control or a catch people’s attention in each of those categories. So are the things such as guided actions, or introspection or visual search, things that take advantage of the waste people’s brains work, what I thought was fascinating was the concept of interference, the idea that if your content or your brand or whatever is too similar to somebody else’s, you won’t be remembered, because there’s too much cognitive interference. So style and tone, logos, identity, and language, especially language, the language that you use, is really, really important. One of the, one of the tests that I remember we used to do in the old agency days, was to take a client’s campaign, our mission statement, whatever and do that and delete all the names. And you know, and swapping a competitor’s name and see if anyone could tell the difference, like what company was it? One of the key takeaways from that event was, she said, content is like a clothesline, if you put only your stuff on it and just cover the line of your stuff, there’s no room for customers or your audience to co create with you. So be able to try to leave room for the customer, user generated content, customer generated content, anything that’s interactive, is really important for for people to be able to be involved because as the more involved a customer is, the more memorable that customer. So that was fantastic. I went to a session on artificial intelligence, because I like to see what’s what other people are sharing. And I was very critical of the session. Because the speakers knowledge was not, not current, not up to date, which in some fields,

    there are, in every field of human learning there is development. But in some fields like AI, you have to be dialed into what’s happening right now, because the the field changes so quickly. And what the technology is, is capable of is is changing even faster. So this one speaker was talking about how, for example, neural networks require massive amounts of data. That’s that’s not a

    thing anymore,

    you can use neural networks, even on very shallow sparse data sets. Now, if you have a good data science background, most of the time, you’ll find that yes, you can use a neural network for this task or that task, but it may not be the best choice, right, you can use a frying pan to make soup if all you have is firing pin, you can make soup in it. But it’s not going to be as good as if you’re using the actual soup pot. And so the same is true in AI machine learning. They eat every technique has tasks for which is well suited and tasks for which is not. So that was that was a little disappointed. But we’ll skip past that one. Allison were shown a hamster from run frontline education, did a great talk on multi touch attribution. It was interesting they they spent a lot of time on the marketing technology stack and and the difficulty of connecting gluing all the pieces together, I thought that was a lot of useful listen to their experiences of trying to get the system to talk to each other. And and they both said the same thing that I know, many folks in the market base upset over the years, which is if a vendor, look at the number choice for vendor selection criteria is look at the integrations that offers right that was their thing as what does it plug into mine has always been what data doesn’t like to export? How does it look better export it, the easier the company makes it to export data, the more trustworthy that vendor is a vendors like, no, we’re not gonna let you have your data. And that that means that

    there’s something wrong, they’re there, they’re going to, they’re going to lock you in at some point.

    Amy Higgins did a fun talk on using sales data to creating marketing content. And one of the things I thought the other insights and that session I thought was fun was she said, when you talk to sales professionals about what’s working, what’s not working for them, do not talk to them in a group, because you will run into all kinds of issues. Instead, do one on one interviews so that you get honest responses about what’s really working what’s not. And you don’t always, always get that in the group because of group dynamics. So that was a very useful takeaway. And then the day close out with

    artist musician and writer, Henry Rollins, who talked at length about infusing efforts, all content marketing efforts, all communications efforts, with moral goodness. And he talked about a lot a lot of the experiences he had where he would publish something or write something,

    and and the impact that it had in people’s lives, people would come up to him after shows and

    tell him how his work, save them their life or meant a lot to their, their family, which is a very emotionally moving conversation. He made the very bold statement, which I completely believe is true that elections are no longer political processes. They are content driven processes, and that relatively few people have control of the truth. And that’s going to be one of the major challenges of the century century. I had a chance to ask him a question in the q amp. And I asked him about, you know, how do you differentiate the different types of good and he said it’s mostly commonality of purpose. If we can help people find that commonality of purpose. We can get them on the same page, we can get them a unified as opposed to

    sort of the the tribalism that we’ve got going on right now. Overall, I was

    pleasantly surprised to hear such an interesting talk that was on point and unbranded about content marketing from someone who does not

    position themselves as a content marketer is more of an entertainer. So that was a you know, that was an interesting way to close up the the event but well worthwhile. Overall, this this event reminded me of the first year of martech before became the other giant beast that it is now and I love these sort of inaugural events we can get to sit in a room with a few hundred people I’ve been great about 450 at this event, and really get to know people really get to talk to people and really get to make solid connections which difficult to do it larger show so this is a wonderful first start for this event and I hope to see it succeed in the years to come. As always, if you have comments or questions, you can leave them in the below if you want a copy of my presentation video is actually up now if you go to where can I get the slides. com It will be up there for a little while. And as always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. want help solving the problem these data analytics and digital marketing problems.

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