FEBRUARY 2019 ISSUE 15

DATA
STREAK
A monthly digest on all things Data
WHAT’S
INSIDE
HOW TO INTEGRATE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 1

HOW TO WRITE THE PERFECT DATA SCIENTIST RESUME? 5

IN A NUTSHELL 7

TOP DATA SCIENCE EXPERTS 8

UPCOMING HACKATHONS & SUMMIT 9

ARTICLE BARN 11

CAREER TRANSITIONS 13

GUESSTIMATE SOLUTIONS 14

DATA TICKLERS 17

REFER AND EARN 18

HOW TO INTEGRATE AI
INTO OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM
Catherine Park
Author, upGrad

Artificial intelligence is a technology that gives Grading

machines the ability to interact with humans, under-
stand events, learn and react to events the same way AI, through specialized computer programs
humans do. such as Automated Grading, can be
calibrated to learn and simulate teacher
Over the past couple of years, the applicability range behaviour when marking assignments, for
of AI has expanded tremendously, from surveillance automated grade assigning in the future.
camera systems though to d igital d ata and network Over time, the program can learn the
management, but its presence in education remains academic ability of different students, and
absurdly low, at least compared to other less accom- prepare personalized training plans based on
modative areas such as sports.While the education its findings.
domain has been known to be sluggish when it comes
to adopting new inventions, taking up artificial intelli-
gence is a long overdue move that shouldn’t be Student feedback on teachers
delayed any longer.
Student feedback is one of the oldest ways of
Discussed below are ways through which AI can be assessing teacher output and how tutors
integrated into our education system to increase the relate with students on different levels. While
productivity of teacher-student interactions and most schools have migrated from paper
improve the learning process overall. ques-tionnaires to online surveys, which is a
massive leap, there is still room for
revolutionary improvement with the help of
artificial intelli-gence. Chatbots can be used
to engage with students ‘in person’ and
collect information without the candor-
influencing presence of a teacher or other
human. Chatbots use answers from previous
questions to formulate new and more
relevant questions. They can also help
analyze the feedback and come up with a
simple average review of the teacher in
question.

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Personalized learning
If, for instance, a student fails to
get the right answer for the very
Different s tudents p ossess d ifferent le arning ab ilities, an d so me
first question, the system would
students record poor results only because they are slow and not
give them a more elementary
necessarily because they are weak.
lesson next. If they did excep-
tionally well, the system would
A teacher in charge of a class of 30 or 40 may simply not be in a
introduce them to more
position to take each student by their pace and still complete the
advanced content and ques-
syllabus in time. They have to choose a pace that they reckon will
tions.
suit the majority of the class – an immense injustice to the slow learn-
ers and an inconvenience to the top students.
The difference between adap-
tive learning and personalized
Using artificial intelligence, each student can have a personal robot
learning is that in personalized
that will serve as a personal assistant. The bot will record all the infor-
learning the customization and
mation taught in class, break it down if necessary, and teach the
modification of content to meet
student at a later time.
a student’s needs is not based on
adaptivity.
Over time, the robot will form a more personalized relationship with
the student and adjust the pace & way of reproducing the informa-
It, instead, involves the use of a
tion.
learner’s expertise or back-
ground to formulate questions
Adaptive learning
and examples. Adaptive learn-
ing, on the other hand, adjusts
Ad aptive learning is an AI-based education system that modifies
content based on the learner’s
material presentation in response to the student’s academic ability.
progress through the course.
All learners are given the same information at the beginning of the
course, and depending on how they respond to questions, the
system feeds them different information and questions.

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Trial and error

Trial and error method is one of the

most gruelling and time-consuming
sides of the traditional human-managed
education system. Taking the deductive
reasoning out of teaching and learning
can help save both teachers and
students a lot of time and frustration.

Artificial intelligence systems can be

used to solve these intricate problems in
an instant, freeing up the teachers and
students for other essential activities.
The system would also break down the
solution to help students tackle similar
problems in the future.

Intermediate interval education

This is an existing computer application that may have already booked

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a place in the projected education system of the future. It enables
students to revise knowledge when they are about to forget it.

The application keeps track of what the student learns and when they
use the knowledge. If they don’t use it for too long, the application
Guesstimate
reminds the student that they are about to forget something and Surf excel
recommends them to revise it. detergent usage in
a day in India?
After ‘enough’ revisions, the application estimates when the student
has permanently stored the knowledge in their memory and stops
reminding them about it. Past experiences help the application know
when the time is right to stop reminding the student about specific
information.

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Virtual facilitators According to an official, a session
hosted by NITI Aayog on the
While AI-based tutors may never be as resourceful as human government policy think tank
teachers, the prospect of virtual facilitators assisting in certain inspired them to have an idea of
educational environments in the foreseeable future looks inevita- introducing artificial intelligence in
ble. The idea is to create humanoid characters that can act, react, the student curriculum as a school
interact and think like humans. subject.

Evidence shows that even if the technology peaks today, both “The board held consultations
humans and artificial intelligence systems will be needed to take with stakeholders, including with a
care of different aspects of students’ social & academic compe- school that was already teaching
tencies. AI, once espoused, will thus serve as a complementary the subject. Consequently, after
resource rather than a replacement for the human expert in our comprehensive discussions, the
education system. board has decided to include
artificial intelligence as an optional
subject,” the official said.
Let’s see what’s cooking in the Education
sector when it comes to DS/ML Ameeta Mulla Wattal, an eminent
educationist and principal of the
Springdales School, New Delhi,
said that technology was playing a
Indian Education System Takes An AI Leap: great role in contemporary life and
CBSE To Include AI In The Curriculum including such subjects would
help connect children with the
India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), in an attempt to immediate present as well as the
mould their education system to make students well-versed with future. Asked about how schools
today’s fast growing & highly demanding technologies, has decided to would teach such a subject, she
include artificial intelligence in their syllabus for students. said whenever a new initiative is
taken up, there can be issues
This subject of artificial intelligence will be for class 8, 9 and 10, and it initially but progressive steps will
will an optional subject. “The decision to introduce artificial intelli- lead to positive results. “If such
gence as a skill subject was taken at a recent meeting of the board’s subjects are brought in the school
governing body. It has been decided that the subject would be intro- space, they will definitely help
duced in classes 8, 9 and 10 as a skill subject,” a member of the board’s children look at technology in new
governing body said. ways,” said Wattal.
CBSE, from 309 schools in 1962,
This technology is growing rapidly globally and India is among the top now has 20299 schools in India
15 countries in the AI race. It therefore becomes important for such a and 220 in 25 foreign countries. By
technology to be included right from the school, so that the school taking initiatives like this, it sure is
curriculums stays updated to the latest technologies and make every- marching its way towards making
one catch up with the tech race. betterment in the Indian educa-
tion system.

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 Argha Roy
Student Success, upGrad

HOW TO WRITE
THE PERFECT
DATA SCIENTIST
RESUME

As data scientists, we often see a good and a perfect resume plays an important role for a
Transition into a Data Science role.

In fact, you can optimize the conversion rate between each step of the application process:

Applications Interviews Job Offers

We’ll look at how you can improve your rate of Applications Interviews by writing a
top notch Data Scientist resume.

We’ve compiled our favorite tips for writing the perfect data scientist CV, and they’re
broken into 3 sections:

Before you start preparing your resume

While Writing Your Resume

Editing Your Resume

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BEFORE WRITING YOUR RESUME

To-Do List:

Carefully read the job descriptions for 5 positions you like.

Note the patterns. Which skills and experiences show up repeatedly?

Note the people. Will you work with the engineering team or with the analysts?

Write one or two paragraphs summarizing the perfect candidate in your own words.

Re-read this description each time you sit down to write or edit your resume! This will put you in
the right frame of mind.

WHILE WRITING THE RESUME

To-Do List:

Write down all of the relevant work experiences / courses / awards / projects that might make it
into a submitted resume.

Under each experience, write and refine TWICE the number bullet points that you’ll need. For
example, let’s say you (a) built a data pipeline, (b) optimized prediction models, (c) analyzed user
data, and (d) made presentation decks during an internship. Even if you'll only keep 2 bullet
points for that experience, write bullet points for all 4 tasks for now.

For each application, spin off a custom version by keeping the most relevant bullet points. Also,
except for special circumstances, try to limit your submitted resume to 1-page max
(i.e. be selective and curate!).

(Bonus) To save even more time, you can re-use spin-offs for similar jobs!

EDITING YOUR RESUME

To-Do List:

Use Action Verbs, Don't "Utilize" Them

Translate Technical Jargon

Replace "Scarecrow Adjectives"

Curate, Curate, Curate

Give Your Resume to a Friend

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IN A
NUTSHELL
Govt asks for safety chip in drones to avoid mishaps

The government has reportedly asked drone manufacturers to install safety chips for switch-
ing off drones remotely to avoid mishaps. This was reportedly suggested in a meeting with
the MoS Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha at the Global Aviation Summit. The suggestion was
followed by discussions on events involving drones, like the closure of London's Gatwick and
Heathrow airports over drone sightings.

Salesforce Commerce Cloud updates keep us shopping with AI-fueled APIs

As people increasingly use their mobile phones and other devices to shop, it has become
imperative for vendors to improve the shopping experience, making it as simple as possible,
given the small footprint. One way to do that is using artificial intelligence. Today, Salesforce
announced some AI-enhanced APIs designed to keep us engaged as shoppers. That means
shopping recommendations could pop up anywhere developers think it makes sense, like on
your maps app.

How Twitch Is Pumping Adrenaline Into Games With Data Analytics

When it comes to using gaming analytics, Twitch is one of those platforms that is helping
game developers across the world to understand how his/her games are doing on the plat-
form. Today, data is not only getting generated from the watch and play but also from the
viewer and broadcaster interactivity, and Twitch analyses the gathered data and show devel-
opers how the community of creators and viewers are engaging with their games. Twitch is
also leveraging the superpowers of data science and analytics to better understand its users.
Analytics can make gaming more fun as it can reveal trends and the real-time impact of new
features that can’t be done just by having a conversation with some players.

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TOP DATA SCIENCE
EXPERTS YOU SHOULD
FOLLOW
DEAN ABOTT
Dean Abbott is co-founder and chief data scien-
tist at SmarterHQ, and founder and president of
Abbott Analytics. He is a co-author of the IBM
SPSS Modeler Cookbook, and the author of
Applied Predictive Analytics: Principles and
Techniques for the Professional Data Analyst.
Follow his blog at http://abbottanalytics.blog-
spot.com.
KENNETH CUKIER
Kenneth Cukier is the data editor for The Econo-
mist. He's a co-author of the book Big Data: A
Revolution That Will Transform How We Live,
Work, and Think, and is a popular speaker.
Watch him gave a fascinating TED talk on "Big
data is better data."
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HACKATHONS & SUMMIT
I-COM Data Science Hackathons 2019

When -
Application deadline - March 1st, 2019
I-COM Data Science Hackathons 2019 - May 10 - 12th, 2019
Networking / Talent Fair - May 13th, 2019
Finalist presentations and winners announcement - May 14th, 2019

Link to register - https://www.i-com.org/data-science-hackathons-2019-enter-a-team/

I-COM is highlighting the importance of gender-balanced teams competing in the Data

Science Hackathons, an area that has long been male-dominated.

FUTURE OF ANALYTICS SUMMIT

When - Wednesday - 27th February 2019

Where - The Ritz-Carlton, Bangalore

Analytics
has become a part of every organizations for making informed
and intelligent Decisions.

Future of Analytics summit

is about effective use of data and analytical tools in its every Functional department s
and operations to its maximum potential for future business Growth.

It is a premier knowledge-exchange platform which brings all

Directors, VP, General Managers, Head Analytics, Business Intelligent, Data Science,
Analysts, Consumer Insights, Market Research community together to share ideas,
information and solutions around the framework, innovation and trends
all key developments that will enable Analytics to become key decision aggregator
of Future Business.

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DATA PLATFORM SUMMIT 2019

When - Conference - 22nd,23rd,24th Aug

Pre-Conference Training - 19th,20th,21st Aug
Where - Hotel Radisson Blu, Bangalore

Data Platform Summit (DPS) from DataPlatformGeeks, is an annual

& international 3-day learning event (with 3 days of pre-conference
training) on Microsoft Data Platform & Open Source. DPS is the only
learning event in Asia where Microsoft Data Group Team Members
from Redmond (USA) & global experts from 15+ nations fly down to
Bangalore to deliver in-depth sessions on diverse technologies
related to data & analytics.

Data Platform Summit 2019, the 5th edition of Data Platform

Summit, will focus on seven technology tracks: Data Science
(including Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning amongst
others), Business Intelligence & Analytics, Database Administration,
Database Development, Cloud, IoT & NoSQL, Big Data and Open

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Source.

DPS 2019 Pre-Registration is Now Open

What is Pre-Registration? DPS 2019 will be officially launched in
February 2019. However, you can pre-register yourself right now. Guesstimate
This will indicate that you are interested in DPS 2019 and it will
How many
entitle you to the pre-launch discount code which will give you the
Google searches
lowest pricing for DPS 2019. The pre-launch code will only be
do you do
shared with pre-registered individuals. Pre-registration does not
per day?
cost you anything.

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 ARTICLE
BARN
AI Consulting: In-depth guide with Top AI Consultants

Why is AI consulting becoming important? Integration of artificial intelligence related products is becoming more
important. Currently, there is demand for artificial intelligence related products, but supply side is limited. Either
the technology isn’t mature yet or the Companies don’t know which firm to hire. Hence, artificial intelligence
consulting will be a highly important industry in the near future.

Read More

Manufacturing Analytics: The 20% conversion-cost opportunity

Much of the potential lies in the increasing ability to leverage data to significantly improve manufacturing
processes. Manufacturers who do so effectively can derive tremendous competitive advantage from it, with up to
20% conversion-cost savings. But despite this tantalizing reward, most analytics efforts within the industry fail to
deliver anything close to that level of saving because they do not target high-value opportunities. Where, then,
are the big opportunities to use analytics to transform manufacturing?

Read More

Using the latest advancements in deep learning to predict stock price movements

Learn a complete process for predicting stock price movements by using Generative Adversarial Network
(GAN) with LSTM, a type of Recurrent Neural Network, as generator, and a Convolutional Neural Network,
CNN, as a discriminator.

Read More

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Top sources for Machine Learning Datasets

It can be quite hard to find a specific dataset to use for a variety of

machine learning problems or to even experiment on. This article
does not only contain great datasets for experimentation but also
contains a description, usage examples and in some cases the algo-
rithm code to solve the machine learning problem associated with
that dataset.

Read More

Your Data is useless if you don’t have a

Management Strategy

If you believe the CEOs, a fully autonomous car could be only months
away. In 2015, Elon Musk predicted a fully autonomous Tesla by 2018; so
did Google. Delphi and MobileEye’s Level 4 system is currently slated for
2019, the same year Nutonomy plans to deploy thousands of driverless

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taxis on the streets of Singapore. GM will put a fully autonomous car into
production in 2019, with no steering wheel or ability for drivers to
intervene. There’s real money behind these predictions, bets made on the
assumption that the software will be able to catch up to the hype.

Guesstimate
Read More What is the
total number of
people who get a
new job in India
in a year?

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 CAREER
TRANSITIONS

BUSINESS JOCATA FINANCIAL

ANALYST ADVISORY AND TECHNOLOGY

SHUBHAM SHARMA SATHISH DEVUNURI

ENGINEER ADITYA
THOKALA

MATHEW KENNY THOMAS ADITYA THOKALA Guesstimate

ROLE-VICE
PRESIDENT

REETKISHOR KANWALE

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GUESSTIMATE
SOLUTIONS

1 Surf excel detergent usage in a day in India?

In India the population is around 125 crore.

To Estimate the amount of surf excel being used we have to divide the population
into households. Some family have 4–5 members, some have 1–2 members, So
taking Average as 3 members per family we have 125/3 = 42 crore households.
Out of the total population 60% is the rural one and 40% comprises of the urban
population assuming 30% urban population is using detergents and 10% rural
population.that means 40% population is using detergents.

40% of 42 crore households = 16 crore households.

The detergent market consists of Surf Excel, Ariel, Tide and others. Assuming
Surf excel has 30% market control, ariel has 20%, Tide 20% and others(Safed, Rin
) as 30%
.
So 30% of 16 crore households = approx 4.5 crore. Assuming each household to
use 15 gm of surf.

Total surf used = 4.5 Crore*15gm = 675000 kg in a day.

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 2 How many Google searches do you
do per day?

The search giants won’t answer this question specifically.

However, Google released an statement in 2012 saying that their servers could
handle 1.2 trillion search queries.
This also does not mean that Google received exactly the same number of
searches.

If you dig deep, bots make the majority of internet search traffic, about 52%,
according to Incapsula. Google, in 2016, reported to Search Engine Land that it
handles “trillions” of searches per year worldwide, meaning the servers handle
at least more than two trillions.

Considering these numbers,

48% of human searches that Google can handle per year= 960,000,000,000
Total world population today = 7.347 billion
Global Internet Usage today = 3.7 billion
Average Searches Per Person Per Year = 960,000,000,000/3.7 billion
~ 260 searches/person/year.

However, this number can not be taken as an absolute for an average person!
This is because about 50% of Google users never make a search.

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 3 What is the total number of people
who get a new job in India in a year?

• 35 million students enroll in India (Undergraduate, graduate, doctorate, diploma)

• 72% of 35 million graduate every year = 25 million
• Students completing 10th grade = 20 million
• Students completing 12th grade = 15 million
• Unemployed graduates of the previous year = 15 million
(Since 60% of 25 million graduates are unemployed)
• GDP growth rate is 7%

Calculations:

• 40% of 25 million graduates are only employed= 10 million

• Assuming 500,000 of the previous year’s graduates get a new job
• 100,000 starts working after 12th grade due to poverty, poor grades etc
• An estimate of 50,000 starts working after 10th grade due to poverty,poor grades etc
• 10,000 people already on workforce end up with a new job

Total = 10 million + 500,000 + 100,000 + 50,000 + 10,000

= 10.66 million (approx)

Note:

• Migrants working in India are negligible

• Due to urbanization, very few go for work
without completing their 10th grade
• Increased feminism has a significant
effect on the estimates

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