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Conditional mixture models for precipitation data quality control 用于降水数据质量控制的条件混合模型
Tadesse Zemicheal, Thomas G. Dietterich
Rainfall is a very important weather variable, especially for agriculture. Unfortunately, rain gauges fail frequently. This paper describes a conditional mixture model for predicting the presence and amount of rain at a weather station based on measurements at nearby stations. The model is evaluated on simulated faults (blocked rain gauges) inserted into observations from the Oklahoma Mesonet. Using the negative log-likelihood as an anomaly score, we evaluate the area under the ROC and precision-recall curves for detecting these faults. The results show very good performance.
降雨是一个非常重要的天气变量,尤其是对农业而言。不幸的是,雨量计经常失灵。本文描述了一个基于附近气象站测量数据的条件混合模型,用于预测气象站的降雨情况和雨量。该模型在俄克拉何马Mesonet观测中插入模拟断层(阻塞雨量计)进行评估。使用负对数似然作为异常评分,我们评估了检测这些故障的ROC和精度召回率曲线下的面积。结果表明,该方法具有良好的性能。
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引用次数: 1
"You are asking me to pay for my legs": Exploring the Experiences, Perceptions, and Aspirations of Informal Public Transportation Users in Kampala and Kigali “你在要求我为我的腿付钱”:探索坎帕拉和基加利非正式公共交通用户的经历、看法和愿望
Lynn Kirabo, E. Carter, Aaron Steinfeld
Smart technologies have recently come under scrutiny for automating inequality. Given the current push towards developing and implementing smart cities policies that affect transportation systems in places like Kampala and Kigali, it is important to examine how the different modes of transportation meet the needs of diverse passengers and identify opportunities for technology to address any inequities. Prior studies have focused on the impact of informal public transportation on government policy and examined drivers' perspectives, but they largely overlooked the experiences of passengers and other industry stakeholders. In this study, we conducted interviews and surveys with public transportation riders with different disabilities as well as other stakeholders, including transport and financial technology creators. Our findings illuminate inequities in the transportation system surrounding discrimination and harassment, influence of ability on preferred transportation modes despite inaccessible interfaces, and influence of perceived social hierarchical structures on innovation. We present insights into how passengers appropriate technology to overcome challenges, and we uncover opportunities for technology to fill additional gaps. Lastly, we discuss how these findings support emergent frameworks such as aspiration-based design, and we present potential envisioned futures of technology for informal public transportation.
智能技术最近因自动化了不平等而受到密切关注。鉴于目前正在推动制定和实施影响坎帕拉和基加利等地交通系统的智慧城市政策,重要的是要研究不同的交通方式如何满足不同乘客的需求,并确定技术解决任何不平等问题的机会。之前的研究主要关注非正式公共交通对政府政策的影响,并考察了司机的观点,但他们在很大程度上忽视了乘客和其他行业利益相关者的经历。在这项研究中,我们对不同残疾的公共交通乘客以及包括交通和金融技术创造者在内的其他利益相关者进行了访谈和调查。我们的研究结果阐明了交通系统中围绕歧视和骚扰的不公平现象,在难以接近的界面下,能力对首选交通方式的影响,以及感知到的社会等级结构对创新的影响。我们为乘客提供了如何利用技术克服挑战的见解,并发现了利用技术填补其他空白的机会。最后,我们讨论了这些发现如何支持诸如基于愿望的设计等新兴框架,并提出了非正式公共交通技术的潜在设想未来。
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引用次数: 9
Enabling sustainable behaviors of data recording and use in low-resource supply chains 在低资源供应链中实现数据记录和使用的可持续行为
A. Ramanujapuram, Charan Kumar Malemarpuram
Public services, such as public health supply chains, in low- and middle-income countries can be characterized as low-resource environments, where both infrastructure and human capacity are limited. There is no strong culture of data recording or use, with ad hoc reporting practices, poor planning and lack of coordination. All these lead to poor supply chain performance, thereby restricting access to medicines, and eventually resulting in poorer health and mortality. We describe the ground-up design of Logistimo SCM, a supply chain management software, offered as a service, that has enabled a transformative change in public health supply chains, leading to improved performance. Our approach is rooted in bottom-up empowerment of the human value chain, based on the principle that higher self-efficacy amongst health workers and managers can lead to sustained changes in data recording and use behaviors. This is achieved through a service that optimizes data collection effort, maximizes supervisory bandwidth, promotes proactive and collaborative operations, and enables frictionless performance recognition. We describe the guiding principles of inclusive software service design and four mechanisms that enable the appropriate conditions for stimulating a behavior of data recording and use. We demonstrate their effectiveness in achieving good supply chain performance through case studies in India and Africa. The principles and methods discussed here are generic and can be applied to any low-resource environment.
低收入和中等收入国家的公共服务,如公共卫生供应链,可被定性为资源匮乏的环境,在这些环境中,基础设施和人力能力都是有限的。没有强有力的数据记录或使用文化,有临时报告做法,规划不良和缺乏协调。所有这些都导致供应链绩效不佳,从而限制获得药品,并最终导致健康状况和死亡率下降。我们描述了Logistimo SCM的基本设计,这是一种作为服务提供的供应链管理软件,它使公共卫生供应链发生了革命性的变化,从而提高了绩效。我们的做法植根于自下而上地增强人类价值链的权能,其原则是卫生工作者和管理人员自我效能的提高可以导致数据记录和使用行为的持续变化。这是通过优化数据收集工作、最大化监管带宽、促进主动和协作操作以及实现无摩擦性能识别的服务来实现的。我们描述了包容性软件服务设计的指导原则和四种机制,这些机制为刺激数据记录和使用行为提供了适当的条件。我们通过在印度和非洲的案例研究证明了它们在实现良好供应链绩效方面的有效性。这里讨论的原则和方法是通用的,可以应用于任何低资源环境。
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引用次数: 1
Characterizing The Evolution Of Indian Cities Using Satellite Imagery And Open Street Maps 利用卫星图像和开放街道地图描绘印度城市的演变特征
Chahat Bansal, Aditi Singla, A. Singh, Hari Om Ahlawat, M. Jain, Prachi Singh, Prashant Kumar, Ritesh Saha, S. Taparia, S. Yadav, Aaditeshwar Seth
With growing urbanization, being able to track urban change is important to plan cities better. Land-use classification of satellite data has been actively used for this purpose. We augment this analysis through the use of crowd-sourced data about the road network in cities, obtained through the Open Street Maps platform. We develop several indicators to quantify the spatial layout of cities and how different localities have changed over time. We apply our methods to study seven Indian cities (Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Mumbai) and relate our findings with that of other studies. Our contribution lies in synthesizing two freely available datasets of satellite imagery and road information to develop a series of standardized indicators for different aspects of urbanization, which can serve to compare various cities with one another and to track change happening in the cities over time.
随着城市化的发展,能够跟踪城市变化对于更好地规划城市非常重要。为此目的已积极使用卫星数据的土地使用分类。我们通过使用通过开放街道地图平台获得的关于城市道路网络的众包数据来增强这一分析。我们制定了几个指标来量化城市的空间布局以及不同地区如何随时间变化。我们应用我们的方法研究了七个印度城市(班加罗尔、金奈、德里、古尔冈、海德拉巴、加尔各答和孟买),并将我们的发现与其他研究联系起来。我们的贡献在于综合了两个免费的卫星图像和道路信息数据集,为城市化的不同方面制定了一系列标准化指标,这些指标可以用于比较不同城市之间的差异,并跟踪城市随时间的变化。
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引用次数: 5
A low-cost 3-D printed smartphone add-on spectrometer for diagnosis of crop diseases in field 用于田间作物病害诊断的低成本3d打印智能手机附加光谱仪
Godliver Owomugisha, Pius K. B. Mugagga, F. Melchert, Ernest Mwebaze, J. Quinn, Michael Biehl
We present our initial proof of concept study towards the development of a low-cost 3-D printed smartphone add-on spectrometer. The study aimed at developing a cheap technology (less than 5 USD) to be used for detection of crop diseases in the field using spectrometry. Previously, we experimented with the problem of disease diagnosis using an off-the-shelf and expensive spectrometer (approximately 1000 USD). However, in real world practice, this off-the-shelf device can not be used by typical users (smallholder farmers). Therefore, the study presents a tool that is cheap and user friendly. We present preliminary results and identify requirements for a future version aiming at an accurate diagnostic technology to be used in the field before disease symptoms are visibly seen by the naked eye. Evaluation shows performance of the tool is better than random however below performance of an industry grade spectrometer.
我们提出了开发低成本3d打印智能手机附加光谱仪的初步概念验证研究。该研究旨在开发一种廉价的技术(不到5美元),用于利用光谱法在田间检测作物病害。之前,我们使用现成的昂贵光谱仪(约1000美元)进行了疾病诊断问题的实验。然而,在现实世界的实践中,这种现成的设备不能被典型用户(小农)使用。因此,该研究提出了一种便宜且用户友好的工具。我们提出了初步结果,并确定了未来版本的要求,旨在在肉眼可见疾病症状之前在现场使用准确的诊断技术。评估结果表明,该工具的性能优于随机,但低于工业级光谱仪的性能。
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引用次数: 3
Global Goods Software for the Immunization Cold Chain 全球商品软件免疫冷链
Waylon Brunette, Clarice Larson, Shourya Jain, Aeron Langford, Y. Low, Andrew Siew, Richard J. Anderson
This paper explores the challenge of taking Global Goods software to international scale. Global Goods software is non-commercial software designed to support global development goals. We argue that a fundamental challenge behind this type of software is the different roles of the global organizations that fund projects, the country leadership that controls implementation, and the actual users of the software. To address this, it necessary to have a design process that balances interests of stakeholders and a technical design that allows for modularity and extensibility. We present a case study of an application for country level management of the immunization cold chain that we have developed and contrast it with major Global Goods software systems such as DHIS2 and OpenMRS. The contributions of the work include the design of a pipeline for building a Global Goods application that is deployed across multiple countries, a collection of lessons learned during system design and implementation, and a comparison of extensibility strategies of different global goods applications.
本文探讨了将Global Goods软件推向国际规模的挑战。Global Goods软件是为支持全球发展目标而设计的非商业软件。我们认为,这类软件背后的一个基本挑战是资助项目的全球组织的不同角色,控制实现的国家领导,以及软件的实际用户。为了解决这个问题,有必要有一个平衡涉众利益的设计过程和一个允许模块化和可扩展性的技术设计。我们介绍了我们开发的用于国家级免疫冷链管理的应用程序的案例研究,并将其与DHIS2和OpenMRS等主要Global Goods软件系统进行了对比。这项工作的贡献包括设计了一个用于构建跨多个国家部署的全球商品应用程序的管道,收集了在系统设计和实施过程中吸取的经验教训,并比较了不同全球商品应用程序的可扩展性策略。
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引用次数: 2
Competitive Cities: Establishing a Classification Model using Data Science-related Jobs 竞争城市:利用数据科学相关工作建立分类模型
C. Fantoni, A. Mero, Denisse Orozco
The concept of competitive cities has been spreading greatly over the years; a way to measure the advancement of cities economically speaking using several socio-economic indicators: GDP per capita, personal income and employment rate for most rankings. However, as time goes on and the impact of technology and Data Science-related jobs in the industry is more prevalent, the level at which this aspect is present in a competitive city is unknown. In this study, we aim to establish classification models that can accurately define a competitive city using Data Science-related job offers found for said city in indeed.com, a job application website. Our results signal the KNN-based model as the best classification method, with a reported accuracy of 0.65 and an AUC of 0.58.
多年来,竞争性城市的概念得到了广泛传播;这是一种衡量城市经济进步的方法,它使用了几个社会经济指标:人均GDP、个人收入和就业率。然而,随着时间的推移,技术和数据科学相关的工作在行业中的影响越来越普遍,这方面在竞争激烈的城市中的水平是未知的。在本研究中,我们的目标是建立分类模型,通过在求职网站indeed.com上找到与数据科学相关的工作机会,准确地定义一个有竞争力的城市。我们的研究结果表明,基于knn的模型是最好的分类方法,报告的准确率为0.65,AUC为0.58。
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引用次数: 0
Information Technology (IT) and Welfare in India: Does IT work? 印度的信息技术(IT)和福利:IT有用吗?
R. Khera, Vineeth Patibandla
The use of information technology (IT) in public administration is seen as a significant tool for improving efficiency, transparency and accountability and in popular rhetoric, and is often heralded as a necessary and sufficient condition for this. We study the use of various forms of IT such as computerization, public management information systems (MIS), a digital ID and biometrics in two welfare programmes in India. Using publicly available administrative data, we look at some performance metrics of welfare programmes, try to understand whether and which IT intervention has been beneficial to programme implementation and comment on the extent to which IT has fulfilled its potential to enhance transparency. We find, as others have earlier, that there is no automatic link between the use of IT and enhanced transparency or accountability, and the use of IT may reinforce existing power imbalances. We argue for unbundling IT interventions in their evaluations.
在公共行政中使用信息技术被视为提高效率、透明度和责任制的重要工具,并在流行的言论中经常被宣传为实现这一目标的必要和充分条件。我们研究了在印度的两个福利项目中使用各种形式的信息技术,如计算机化、公共管理信息系统(MIS)、数字身份证和生物识别技术。利用公开的行政数据,我们研究了福利计划的一些绩效指标,试图了解信息技术干预是否以及哪些方面有利于计划的实施,并评论信息技术在多大程度上发挥了提高透明度的潜力。我们发现,正如其他人之前所发现的那样,信息技术的使用与提高透明度或问责制之间没有自动联系,而且信息技术的使用可能会加剧现有的权力不平衡。我们主张在评估中拆分IT干预。
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The Role of Digital Work Platforms in Negotiating New Power Dynamics: Experiences from a Social Digital Skills Platform in South Africa 数字工作平台在谈判新权力动态中的作用:来自南非社交数字技能平台的经验
Raphael Kamanga, Jeanna Neefe Matthews
Digital work platforms can serve as trust-mediating agents between workers and employers who are previously unknown to each other. The design decisions made by digital work platform developers have an impact on the power dynamics between workers and employers. We report on our experience with piloting a social digital platform, VASTBlu, designed to enable workers from township communities in South Africa to access work opportunities in the mainstream economy. We also discuss ways in which factors like symmetry of review or the frequency of review between parties could be consciously chosen to change the power dynamics between parties in a digital work platform, reducing unfair practices and bringing increased power and dignity to workers.
数字工作平台可以作为以前互不相识的工人和雇主之间的信任中介。数字工作平台开发人员做出的设计决策对员工和雇主之间的权力动态产生了影响。我们报告了我们试点社交数字平台VASTBlu的经验,该平台旨在使南非乡镇社区的工人能够在主流经济中获得工作机会。我们还讨论了如何有意识地选择审查对称性或各方之间审查频率等因素来改变数字工作平台中各方之间的权力动态,减少不公平的做法,并为工人带来更多的权力和尊严。
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LokDhaba
Mohit Kumar, Chinmay Narayan, Sudheendra Hangal, Priyamvada Trivedi
Despite the importance of elections in India, the world's largest democracy, data on Indian electoral outcomes has not been easily available for political analysis in the past. This has been due to the problems inherent in assembling any data archive of social and political data spanning many decades. In this paper, we shed some light on these problems and present some solutions in the context of a system we built called LokDhaba. LokDhaba includes the first freely-available, structured and cleaned data archive on Indian electoral outcomes at the national or state level from 1962 onwards. To build this archive, we overcame the challenges of data scraping, parsing, cleaning, consistency checking and integration between multiple sources, with the help of some novel tools. LokDhaba is being used extensively by political scientists, researchers, journalists and others to better understand long-term electoral trends in India.
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