How to Design a Roadmap for a Machine Learning Project

What is the first thing you do when starting a new machine learning project?

I’ve posed this question to a variety of ML leaders in startups and have received a few different answers. In no particular order:

1. Try out one of our existing models to see if it works for the new task.
2. Start exploring and understanding the data.
3. Dig into the research literature to see what’s been done before.

Notice that none of these first steps …

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