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People, Computers, and the 
Hot Mess of Real Data

People, Computers, and the 
Hot Mess of Real Data

Keynote, KDD 2016

Joe Hellerstein

August 15, 2016
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  1. THE MISSING THIRD INGREDIENT: PEOPLE 3 Research imperative: 
 Dramatically

    simplify labor-intensive tasks … in the analytic lifecycle. 2010 Computing is free. Storage is free. Data is abundant. The remaining bottlenecks lie with people.
  2. dp (c. 2012) 5 Jeff Heer
 Stanford Tapan Parikh Berkeley

    Maneesh Agrawala Berkeley Joe Hellerstein Berkeley Sean Diana Ravi Kandel MacLean Parikh Kuang Nicholas Wesley
 Chen Kong Willett
  3. THE ANALYTIC LIFECYCLE 9 ACQUISITION TRANSFORMATION ANALYSIS VISUALIZATION DECIDE/DEPLOY ACQUISITION

    Shreddr Wrangler MADlib d3 [Chen et al., DEV12] [Kandel, et al. CHI 11] [Hellerstein, et al. VLDB 12] [Bostock et al. Infovis 11] CommentSpace [Willett et al. CHI 11]
  4. THE ANALYTIC LIFECYCLE 10 Shreddr Wrangler MADlib d3 CommentSpace ACQUISITION

    TRANSFORMATION ANALYSIS VISUALIZATION DECIDE/DEPLOY ACQUISITION
  5. THREE CHAPTERS ➔ Data Acquisition. (Shreddr —> Captricity) ➔ Data

    Wrangling (Potter’s Wheel —> Wrangler —> Trifacta) ➔ Data Context (Ground) 11
  6. ANALYTICS ENABLEMENT
 Extracting Data from 1M+ Death Claims 19 CHALLENGE…

    No easy access to “cause of death” data 100’s of templates to identify, sort and capture UNLOCKED Improve fraud detection by leveraging patterns found in historical customer data
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  8. SOME LESSONS ➔(Problems from the field) × (Ideas from the

    lab) ➔Apply systems ideas to remove UX bottlenecks ➔Column compression ➔Batch processing & instruction locality ➔Filter pipelines ➔Crowdsourcing: first hints of Human/Machine collaboration ➔Humans as algorithmic agents ➔Challenge: optimize the human work
  9. WHERE DOES THE TIME GO IN ANALYTICS? PROCESSING ANALYTICS 80%

    of the work in any data project is preparing the data. Patil, Data Jujitsu, 2012. Kandel et al. “Enterprise Data Analysis and Visualization: An Interview Study”, IEEE VAST, 2012.
  10. Interview study of 35 analysts: 25 companies Healthcare Retail, Marketing

    Social networking Media Finance, Insurance Various titles Data analyst Data scientist Software engineer Consultant Chief technical officer [Kandel et al., VAST12] KANDEL SURVEY 26
  11. “I spend more than half of my time integrating, cleansing

    and transforming data without doing any actual analysis. Most of the time I’m lucky if I get to do any ‘analysis’ at all.” Friction “Most of the time once you transform the data ... the insights can be scarily obvious.” Lost potential
  12. “It’s easy to just think you know what you are

    doing and not look at data at every intermediary step. An analysis has 30 different steps. It’s tempting to just do this then that and then this. You have no idea in which ways you are wrong and what data is wrong.” Interactivity and Visualization
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  14. A PROGRAMMING PROBLEM THE DATA TRANSFORMATION PROBLEM 30 DATA TRANSFORMATION

    Business System Data Machine Generated Data Log Data Data Visualization Fraud Detection Recommendations DATA SOURCE Complexity DATA PRODUCT Simplicity … …
  15. TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMMING Languages: Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl… DSLs: DataStep, AJAX,

    Pandas, dplyr, Wrangle, Ibis… 31 Domain Specific Language (DSL) Data Output write code, compile, run
  16. POTTER’S WHEEL (2001): ENTER THE VISUAL ➔ Visual DSL ➔

    Immediate feedback ➔ Ongoing discrepancy detection ➔ Data lineage, redo/undo 32 [Raman & Hellerstein, VLDB11]
  17. Lifting from DSL to Visual Language 33 Domain Specific Language

    (DSL) Data Output write code, compile, run Visualization and Interaction View Result visualize interact Lift Ground compile Problem: Remaining burden of specification for users.
  18. SEARCH QUERY AUTO-COMPLETE 37 Search Engine Query Textbox Query Response

    Suggestions pick type GUIDE DECIDE predict What about more complex input/output relations? The input and output domains are the same: text.
  19. WRANGLER (2011): ADD INTELLIGENCE 38 [Kandel, et al. CHI 11]

    [Guo, et al. UIST11] ➔ Automatic inference of transforms ➔ Predictive preview of results ➔ Interactive history ➔ User Studies http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler
  20. TRADITIONAL DATA TRANSFORMATION 39 Visualization and Interaction Data Transformation Code

    User authors a draft transformation script User tests the script on a small amount of data User inspects output data to assess effects 1. 2. 3.
  21. Trifacta. Confidential & Proprietary. PREDICTIVE INTERACTION 40 Visualization and Interaction

    Data Transformation Code User highlights visual features of the data Data previews allow user to choose, adjust and confirm Algorithms predict a ranked list of scalable transforms 1. 3. 2. GUIDE DECIDE
  22. PREDICTIVE INTERACTION 41 Domain Specific Language (DSL) Visualization and Interaction

    Data Output write code, compile, run View Result visualize compile Response Preview pick interact predict GUIDE DECIDE codegen present Lift Ground [Heer, Hellerstein, Kandel, CIDR15]
  23. Wrangling Web Chat Log Data 43 Business Challenge: Understanding web

    chat interactions to personalize the customer experience Data Challenge: Only 0.01% of web chat logs analyzed due to complexity • Large volumes of unstructured, difficult to prep, web chat data being created • Only 200 chats manually extracted per month and analyzed for quality assurance • Valuable frontline time taken up by manual processing • Limited insight into what their customers are speaking to them about • In retail banking, web-based self- service has surpassed both in person and call center usage • At RBS, 250,000 customer chats per month launched for multiple banking needs • Analyzing web chat data can provide valuable information about customer needs and pain points Trifacta: Providing a self-service solution to wrangle 100% of logs • 100% of web chat logs now prepped and analyzed • Went from processing 200 logs to 250,000 logs…and now automated, not manual! • Have new insight into customer needs
  24. © 2016 Royal Bank of Scotland Group. All rights Reserved

    The classification of this document is PUBLIC. “The dashboard is transforming the way I run my business. It is improving the customer-centric approach in our chats and it is showing in the output that we now see” Akshay Vats - Head of Web Chat Operation (India) Empowering RBS’s frontline staff
  25. SOME LESSONS ➔Predictive Interaction: Guide and Decide ➔A UX model

    for AI-assisted, human-driven tasks ➔DSLs at the center ➔A formal “narrow waist” ➔Targetable to multiple runtimes ➔Provides a modest, factored search space for learning & prediction ➔Interactive Profiling ➔Continuous data vis feedback during transformation ➔Data profile qua data interface
  26. WHAT CHANGED WITH BIG DATA? Shift in technology
 Data representations

    Shift in behavior
 Data-driven organizations
  27. By 2017: 
 marketing spends more on tech than IT.

    Data escapes IT GARTNER GROUP By 2020: 
 90% of IT budget controlled outside of IT.
  28. What does it
 mean? It depends on
 the context. Raw

    data in the data lake
 Simplifies capture Encourages exploration
  29. It’s time to establish a bigger context for big data.

    Historical context
 Because
 things change Behavioral context
 Because behavior determines meaning Application context Because truth
 is subjective THE MEANING AND VALUE OF DATA DEPENDS ON CONTEXT
  30. APPLICATION CONTEXT Metadata Models for interpreting
 the data for use

    • Data structures • Semantic structures • Statistical structures Theme: services must provide an unopinionated model of context
  31. HISTORICAL CONTEXT Versions Web logs Code to extract user/ movie

    rentals Recommender for movie licensing Point in time
 A promising new
 movie is similar to older hot movies at time of release! Trends over time
 How does a movie
 with these features
 fare over time?
  32. 2 4 8 7 9 BEHAVIORAL CONTEXT Lineage & Usage

    Data Science Recommenders “You should compare with book sales from last year.” Curation Tips “Logistics staff checks weather data the 1st Monday of every month.” Proactive
 Impact Analysis “The Twitter analysis script changed. You should check the boss’ dashboard!”
  33. ABOVEGROUND API TO APPLICATIONS UNDERGROUND API TO SERVICES CONTEXT MODEL

    COMMON GROUND Parsing &
 Featurization Catalog &
 Discovery Wrangling Analytics &
 Vis Reference
 Data Data
 Quality Reproducibility Model
 Serving Scavenging
 and Ingestion Search &
 Query Scheduling &
 Workflow Versioned
 Storage ID & Auth
  34. ABOVEGROUND API TO APPLICATIONS UNDERGROUND API TO SERVICES CONTEXT MODEL

    COMMON GROUND Parsing &
 Featurization Catalog &
 Discovery Wrangling Analytics &
 Vis Reference
 Data Data
 Quality Reproducibility Model
 Serving Scavenging
 and Ingestion Search &
 Query Scheduling &
 Workflow Versioned
 Storage ID & Auth ABOVEGROUND API TO APPLICATIONS UNDERGROUND API TO SERVICES RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES ACROSS THE STACK
  35. IN SUM: PEOPLE + DATA + COMPUTATION ➔Dealing with Data:

    involves much more than algorithms ➔Human Component: a huge opportunity for tech innovation ➔Context is Key: for grounding analysis 68