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Published inApr 2021
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Dennis Michael Sawyers
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Dennis Michael Sawyers

Dennis Michael Sawyers is a senior cloud solutions architect (CSA) at Microsoft, specializing in data and AI. In his role as a CSA, he helps Fortune 500 companies leverage Microsoft Azure cloud technology to build top-class machine learning and AI solutions. Prior to his role at Microsoft, he was a data scientist at Ford Motor Company in Global Data Insight and Analytics (GDIA) and a researcher in anomaly detection at the highly regarded Carnegie Mellon Auton Lab. He received a master's degree in data analytics from Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College and a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan. More than anything, Dennis is passionate about democratizing AI solutions through automated machine learning technology.
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Explaining AutoML results to your business

To realize business value, your AutoML models must be implemented and used by the business. A common obstacle to implementation is a lack of trust stemming from a lack of understanding of how ML works. At the same time, explaining the ins and outs of how individual ML algorithms work is a poor way to gain trust. Throwing math symbols and complicated statistics at end users will not work unless they already have a deep background in mathematics.

Instead, use AutoML's inbuilt explainability. As long as you enable explainability when training models, you can say exactly which features AutoML is using to generate predictions. In general, it's a good practice to do the following four things:

  • Always enable explainability when training any AutoML model.
  • When presenting results to the business, first show performance, then show explainability.
  • Rank the features in order of most to least important.
  • Drop any unimportant...
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Dennis Michael Sawyers

Dennis Michael Sawyers is a senior cloud solutions architect (CSA) at Microsoft, specializing in data and AI. In his role as a CSA, he helps Fortune 500 companies leverage Microsoft Azure cloud technology to build top-class machine learning and AI solutions. Prior to his role at Microsoft, he was a data scientist at Ford Motor Company in Global Data Insight and Analytics (GDIA) and a researcher in anomaly detection at the highly regarded Carnegie Mellon Auton Lab. He received a master's degree in data analytics from Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College and a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan. More than anything, Dennis is passionate about democratizing AI solutions through automated machine learning technology.
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