The Importance of a Data Acquisition Team

Organising labelling is a core part of productionised ML and the Domain Team has the most knowledge to do it. But are they the best suited to do it?

Our experience shows that because incentives differ in production and off-line labelling, the Domain Team might create biased (subjective) dataset in Human-In-The-Loop settings.

Adding an extra team that was trained by the Domain Team but can only influence end-to-end performance through the deployed model helped to keep the training dataset objective while improving the productionised pipeline and helping the Domain Team.

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