Will Your Career Involve AI?



I think everyone's career will be impacted by Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Analytics. I would love to see more exposure to modern Data Analytics for every degree major at the university where I teach, so I have been experimenting with it over the past few months.

First, let me toot my own horn...


I am very proud to announce that the Kaggle team over at Google has given me the designation of machine learning software "Kernel Expert." This is a ranking given to very few people and is quite an honor because I am currently ranked 271st out of 89,986 people who are given such a ranking (top 1%) and that is out of more than 1,000,000 Kaggle participants, most of whom are not ranked.

What about you?


Bragging aside - It only took me 10 months, and it was soooo easy to get started! You should definitely take a look at Kaggle, and at a bare minimum, search the "Kernels" for "your career name" and see what work is being done that will impact your future career. No software is needed, and you can see fantastic graphs and charts and visualizations that explain the complex.

What is Kaggle?


You can get the details on the Kaggle website (www.kaggle.com) or from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaggle) but in summary - Kaggle gives you all the computers you need, including the fastest CPU's and GPU's, to solve the toughest Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence problems. They also have contests and rankings, and most importantly, they store all of the huge amounts of data needed to solve things like facial recognition, crime prediction, and many other real-world problems.

How do I use Kaggle with my students at ECPI University?


I informally point students to Kaggle when I teach Statistics class (MTH140), Industrial Applications (EET220), and Instrumentation and Measurement (EET221L), as well as project based classes. In all of these cases, I explain to students that sometimes data gets too big to fit on one computer, or even make sense of because it is too huge and complicated. Kaggle has some great example Kernels (software programs other folks have written) showing GIS mapping, visualization, and pattern recognition results that students love to look at. The topics are as diverse as Criminal Justice, Business, Medicine, Cyber Security, and more. Not every student is interested in exploring it further, but exposure is important, and they can always make their own account and take on a free starter project (I recommend the "Titanic" project, trying to predict who will survive the disaster at sea based only on information such as age, sex, how much they paid for their ticket, etc...)
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Will Your Career Involve AI?


The short answer is yes! Kaggle is a great way to dip your toe in the waters, and I recommend it highly.

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