Case Studies
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: Targeting Education Through Data Science
Overview
Analytics & Modeling - Data Mining Analytics & Modeling - Machine Learning Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics | |
Education | |
Business Operation Quality Assurance | |
Automated Disease Diagnosis Predictive Quality Analytics Remote Collaboration | |
Data Science Services Software Design & Engineering Services | |
Operational Impact
The top five Kaggle teams outperformed all of the commercial vendors and even showed more consistency than the expert human graders. | |
The winning team, which included a British particle physicist, an American weather analyst, and a German computer science student, ultimately sold the intellectual property behind their solution. | |
The top teams did not outperform human graders, but did outperform an automated benchmark by almost 20%. | |
Quantitative Benefit
Phase 1 included more than 22,000 hand-scored, long-form student essays. | |
Phase 2 included more than 27,000 hand-scored short answers around 50 words. | |
The top teams outperformed an automated benchmark by almost 20%. | |