Trending Data Science Topics & Tools for 2020

As the entire world has entered a paradigm shift in 2020 due to the virus, trends across every industry may have changed to meet these changing times. In data science and AI, many practitioners and researchers have had to shift their focus to meet the demands of their company, academic institutions, or personal research endeavors. Now that the year is more than halfway over, what has stood out in 2020 so far, and what are leading data scientists seeing in their work? Model bias remains an issue Dr. Jon Krohn, Chief Data Scientist untapt The big item for me is that the ML community is beginning to wake up to the widespread, unwanted bias that is present in data-driven models. Whether it's related to machine vision, natural language processing, or other applications, the researchers and developers devising the models underlying these applications are not a representative sample of the broader population demographics. The data sets that they tend to work with likewise are not a representative sample of broader population demographics.