Last week at the ODSC West conference, I was thrilled with the interest in my Using AI for Good workshop: it was wonderful to find a room full of data scientists eager to learn how data science and artificial intelligence can be used to help people and the planet. The workshop was focused around projects from the Microsoft AI for Good program. I’ve included some details about the projects below, and you can also check out the workshop slides and the accompanying  Jupyter Notebooks that demonstrate the underlying AI methods used in the projects. 

“Business culture needs to go through a fundamental change to become data-driven. It’s not the new tools, more data, or a PhD-holder staff that will make the change happen. A system, a program, or a robot, designed to be most rational, capable, and failure-proof is put to action only if the environment it operates in allows it. Analytics have been available for years, but they continue being misused because the business models they aid are inherently incompatible. Centrally manged organisations by design impede change; its time that decision making becomes more democratic and distributed, as is data.” Eve the Analyst ( 7th November 2017 )

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