gemorris / Human Experience Edits (Envisioning/Discovery)

[gemorris]

What are you trying to address

• Additions to the Envisioning (Now Discovery) section of the playbook, as reviewed with @biancafbmd

Description of new changes

• Significant content additions to incorporate the process and role of Human Experience within the Discovery stage of a project
• Renamed the section as part of the edit and review process

[omri374]

Thank you! great contribution!

My main question is around the definition of discovery vs. envisioning. Previously, we looked at these as two different activities:

• Discovery is the process of identifying use-cases given a specific business setting (e.g., what kind of insights can we extract from this dataset)
• Envisioning is the process of detailing and framing a specific use case into a clear business and analytical question (e.g., can we identify patients who are likely to have complications).

This is just my own interpretation of the terms. I don't think this is the official definition.

If we do decide to rename envisioning to discovery, I would suggest updating the diagram and text on the top page for ML fundamentals, as it specifies this phase as "envisioning".

[TessFerrandez]

The information is great, so thank you for the contribution.

In general, however, this text is a bit heavy to read - can we rewrite this in a bit more "Plain English" (see http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/how-to-write-in-plain-english.html for tips) to make sure our intentions come across correctly?

Examples of a few potential rewordings

• Understand the problem domain, and business objectives
• (? Not completely sure what this sentence means, but perhaps) State the limits of the problem?
• Explain how potential solutions may be used, and how we can measure the performance of the suggested solutions.
• Determine what data is available, and the origin and quality of the data. Take special care to understand if the data may be biased.
• ...

Similar with the rest of the document.

[gemorris]

@TessFerrandez Noted, I will be able to get to this around the holidays

[TessFerrandez]

@gemorris are you planning on working on this, or should we abandon the PR for now?

[day-jeff]

@gemorris--would be good to address the reviews and get this merged.