A Journey Using Machine Learning to Predict Student Populations
Channel: DATAVERSITY
Date: 2021-08-31

Machine learning is an adventure that combines technology, process, people, and data to produce numbers. These numbers can be controversial, misleading, distracting, and occasionally useful. Our journey included model-specific data curation, predictive modeling school, getting to know school capacity planners, leveraging new tools to manage the process, and ultimately how to leverage the outcome.

When we began this project to assist school planners, practically every dimension was new to us. What we learned along the way influenced how we curated data, how we trained the data, how we engaged our partners, and what we did with the outcome. This presentation shares our experiences for the benefit of others that may be facing similar projects.

During this presentation attendees will learn:
-Hurdles we faced and how we addressed them
-Our cyclical process where lessons learned from one approach defined the next approach
-How we measured progress and the value of our model choices
-Some of the communication challenges we faced and how we overcame them

Enterprise Data World 2021
Speakers: Desmond (Tripp) Wray, Data Architect and Analytics Team Manager (Chesterfield County) and Art Johne, Data Analyst (Chesterfield County)