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Short Bio: Dan is CEO of predictive analytics firm Warwick Analytics. A highly-respected speaker and widely published in the predictive analytics and data science arena. He holds an MA from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences and a Diploma in Business Studies.

My Web Site Or LinkedIn Profile: http://https://www.linkedin.com/in/dansomers1/

Professional Status: C-Level

Years of Experience:: 20

Your Company:: https://warwickanalytics.com

Industry:: Analytics

Your Job Title:: CEO

How did you find out about DataScienceCentral?: Subscriber

Interests:: Networking, Other

What is your Favorite Data Mining or Analytical Website?: http://predictiveanalyticstoday.com

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Humans-in-the-Loop? Which Humans? Which Loop?

Posted on April 19, 2018 at 5:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes

Background

For people working in Artificial Intelligence, the term “Human-in-the-Loop” is familiar i.e. a human in the process to validate and improve the AI. There are many situations where it applies, as many as there are AI applications. However. there are still some distinct different ways it can be deployed even within the same application.

Contact Center Example

Let’s take for example the automation of a contact center. A…

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Data Scientists need designer labels too

Posted on February 7, 2018 at 4:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes

Labels are how humans define and categorise different concepts. There’s lots of evolutionary psychology, neuroscience and linguistics behind this, but without going into that, without labels human (and other animal) intelligence would not be possible. Labels are the algebra of everyday life.

But what’s that got to do with Data Science? As it happens, quite a lot. When we want to understand what people believe or perceive, we do it by analysing their communication either written or…

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