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Tips for using a data-centric AI approach

The future of data-centric AI talk series Background Andrew Ng is a machine-learning pioneer, founder and CEO of Landing AI, and a former team leader at Google Brain. Recently he gave a presentation to the Future of Data-Centric AI virtual conference, where he discussed some practical tips for responsible data-centric AI development. This presentation dives into tips for data-centric AI applicable…

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March 9, 2022

Resilient enterprise AI application development

Using a data-centric approach to capture the best of rule-based systems and ML models for enterprise AI One of the biggest challenges to making AI practical for the enterprise is keeping the AI application relevant (and therefore valuable) in the face of ever-changing input data and evolving business objectives. Practitioners typically use one of two approaches to build these AI applications:…

March 3, 2022

How AI can be used to rapidly respond to information warfare in the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Proliferating web technology has contributed to information warfare in recent conflicts. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play a significant role in stemming disinformation campaigns, cyber-attacks, and informing diplomacy in the rapidly evolving situation in Ukraine. Snorkel AI is dedicated to supporting the National Security community and other enterprise organizations with state-of-the-art AI technology. We see this as our responsibility in the…

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February 28, 2022

How Genentech extracted information for clinical trial analytics with Snorkel Flow

Genentech, a global biotech leader and member of the Roche Group, leveraged Snorkel Flow to extract critical information from lengthy clinical trial protocol (CTP) pdf documents. They built AI applications that used NER, entity linking, text extraction, and classification models to determine inclusion/ exclusion criteria and to analyze Schedules of Assessments. Genentech’s team achieved 95-99% model accuracy by using Snorkel…

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February 26, 2022

Augmenting the clinical trial design process with information extraction

The future of data-centric AI talk series Background Michael DAndrea is the Principal Data Scientist at Genentech. He earned his MBA from Cornell University and a Master’s degree in Computing and Education from Columbia University. He currently works on using unstructured data sources for clinical trial analytics and his team is partnered with the Stanford “AI For Health” initiative as…

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February 22, 2022

Building AI Applications Collaboratively Using Data-centric AI

The Future of Data-Centric AI Talk Series Background Roshni Malani received her PhD in Software Engineering from the University of California, San Diego, and has previously worked on Siri at Apple and as a founding engineer for Google Photos. She gave a presentation at the Future of Data-Centric AI virtual conference in September 2021. Her presentation is below, lightly edited…

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January 14, 2022

Design Principles for Iteratively Building AI Applications

Enabling iterative development workflows with Snorkel Flow’s Application Studio. Consider this scenario— we’re AI engineers, and we’re building a social media monitoring application to track the sentiment of Fortune 500 company mentions in the news.

November 8, 2021

Building a Successful AI Startup

ScienceTalks with Saam Motamedi We at Snorkel AI have received many requests from data scientists and machine learning engineers who aspire to be founders, where do they start and how should they get started on their entrepreneurial journey? We genuinely believe that data scientists and machine learning engineers will build the next generation of mega-enterprises. Over the summer, we’ve recorded…

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October 18, 2021

Web Virtualization — Optimizing Data-Intensive App Performance

Frontend Development Best Practices for Working With Lots of Data From Snorkel AI Engineering As a frontend engineer, it’s often easy to run into limitations when scaling large applications. At Snorkel AI, we often run into times where our users work with data that scales into the gigabytes when using Snorkel Flow. We have built Snorkel Flow around two core…

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September 16, 2021

Multi-Label Classification, Sequence Labeling, and More

Snorkel Flow LTS Release Summer ‘21 By adopting Snorkel Flow, a data-centric AI development platform powered by programmatic labeling, our customers have changed how they build and deploy AI applications. We’ve seen our customers save tens-of-millions of dollars in manual labeling costs and person-years of time by applying weak supervision with Snorkel Flow.Over the last few months, we’ve been hard…

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September 15, 2021

How to Use Snorkel to Build AI Applications

The how, what, and why of Snorkel’s programmatic data labeling approach and the state-of-the-art Snorkel Flow platform. The year was 2015. For the first time, machine learning (ML) had outperformed humans in the annual ImageNet challenge.

July 9, 2021

Building Industrial-Strength NLP Applications With Ines Montani

In this episode of Science Talks, Explosion AI’s Ines Montani sat down with Snorkel AI’s Braden Hancock to discuss her path into machine learning, key design decisions behind the popular spaCy library for industrial-strength NLP, the importance of bringing together different stakeholders in the ML development process, and more.This episode is part of the #ScienceTalks video series hosted by the…

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April 29, 2021

Debugging AI Applications Pipeline

We’ll analyze major sources of errors during the four steps of building AI applications: data labeling, feature engineering, model training, and model evaluation.

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February 3, 2021

How To Overcome Practical Challenges for AI in Finance

Advancements in artificial intelligence promise efficiency gains for financial institutions. AI-powered applications can revolutionize an organization’s risk management, fraud detection, compliance monitoring, and other processes. Financial services companies have smart data scientists and good infrastructure needed for deploying AI. But their ability to rapidly develop and deploy AI applications is hampered by several unique challenges.

December 29, 2020

Machine Learning Production Myths

Takeaways from MLSys Seminars with Chip HuyenIn November, I had the opportunity to come back to Stanford to participate in MLSys Seminars, a series about Machine Learning Systems. It was great to see the growing interest of the academic community in building practical AI applications. Here is a recording of the talk.The talk was originally about the principles of good…

December 23, 2020
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