Chapter 4
Future Trends and Principles of Success
Lecturer: MSc. Kiet Van Nguyen
Department of Data Science
Faculty of Information Science and Engineering
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Data Science
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Objectives of this lesson
Introducing and understanding
Medical Data Science
Smart Cities
Data Science Project Principles: Why
Projects Succeed or Fail?
Final Thoughts
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Medical Data Science
Why?
Medical decisions based on: data (the best available
data) + an individual patient’s predicament and
preferences.
Reducing costs (time + efforts)
=> Automating health care processes.
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Medical Data Science (Cont.)
Other
data
How?
Patients’
Medical monitoring data MDS
sensors server system
Suggestion decisions
Patients Treatments Doctors
Patients’ data
Other applications: medicines and their interactions
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Smart Cities
Goal: new technology to be able to gather and use
the data generated by their citizens in order to
better manage the cities’ organizations, utilities,
and services.
Three core enablers of this trend: data science, big
data, and IoT (Internet of Things)
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Smart Cities (Cont.)
Smart-city projects: different data sources (real-time)
a single data hub: analyzing and informing
management and planning decisions.
Smart cities: Masdar (United Arab Emirates) and
Songdo (South Korea).
Two core components in a smart city: sensor networks
and data-processing centers.
Smart-city projects: energy efficiency, planning and
routing traffic, and planning utility services.
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Other Applications
Natural Language Processing in Data Science
Image Processing in Data Science
Social Media Mining in Data Science
Recommendation Systems in Data Science
…
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Data Science Project Principles: Why
Projects Succeed or Fail?
The success of a DS project based on 07 factors:
1. Focus
7. Iteration
6. Buy-in 2. Data
5. Integration 3. People
with the Business
4. Model
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Focus
Clear objectives Clear definition (What)
informs:
Data to use.
ML algorithms to use,
how to evaluate the results,
how the analysis and models will be used and
deployed
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Data
Define what data are needed for the project.
Available
Not building good-quality datasets (large if
using deep learning models).
Without good-quality data, it is very difficult for a
data science project to succeed.
Expensive cost (time and efforts) to create datasets.
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People
Successful DS projects involve a team of people with
a blend of data science competencies and skills.
Data science projects need:
Successful data scientists are willing and able to:
Work with data, to apply ML, and to frame real
world problems using data-driven solutions.
Communicate with the management team, end users,
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Models
Experiment with a variety of ML algorithms to
discover which works best with the data sets.
Challenging for selecting ML algorithms:
Domain, datasets.
Features
Infrastructures
…
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Integration with the Business
Define how the outputs and results of the project
will be deployed within the organization’s IT
architecture and business processes.
Example: Customer-risk model loan process in a bank.
If the outputs and models created by a project are
not integrated into the business processes, then
these outputs will not be used, and, ultimately, the
project will fail.
Academic vs Industry?
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Buy-in
Successful data science projects supported by senior
managements:
Technology + processes involved in the data science
project.
how the outputs of the DS project can be used to the
organization’s advantage.
Key to informing the rest of the organization about
the project and selling it to them.
Have DS views as a strategy.
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Final Thoughts
Data science projects help to answer real-life questions:
- What treatment should we use for this patient?
- Where should we allocate our policing resources?
- How many high schools do we need to build in the next four
years?
- …
Data science actionable insight better decisions
better outcomes.
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References
Chapter 7, Data Science, John D. Kelleher, Brendan
Tierney, MIT Press. 2018.
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Q&A
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Thank you!
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