Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Poor Data Curation Is Killing Your AI Models

Poor data curation can significantly impact AI models' performance and reliability. Organizations must shift their focus from collecting large datasets to ensuring high-quality data. Effective data curation involves organizing, managing, and preparing data for model training or labeling, ensuring it is relevant and structured for the specific task. Cleaning and refining training data at scale is a major challenge, but meticulous curation and cleaning can improve model accuracy and performance. Modern pipelines should incorporate additional stages for enhanced data curation, such as verification, cleaning, and curating before proceeding to model training. Encord offers innovative approaches to tackle common data quality challenges like duplicates, corrupted data, and noisy samples through embedding-based approaches, NLP for data curation, persistence layers, metadata validation, and data cleaning techniques.