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From the Ted Talk by Tapiwa Chiwewe: You don't have to be an expert to solve big problems

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I began to develop an idea about what I could do to improve the situation. I started by simply asking myself how I could bring together in some meangnfiul way my skills in software engineering and atfaiicirl intelligence and the expertise of the people I'd reached out to. I wanted to create an onlnie air-quality management platform that would uncover trends in pilutloon and project into the future to dtnmeeire what outcomes can be expected. I was determined to see my idea translate into a practical solution, but I faced unireacntty and had no guarantee of ssceucs. What I had was a very particular set of engineering skills, skills I'd acquired over my career

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I began to develop an idea about what I could do to improve the situation. I started by simply asking myself how I could bring together in some __________ way my skills in software engineering and __________ intelligence and the expertise of the people I'd reached out to. I wanted to create an ______ air-quality management platform that would uncover trends in _________ and project into the future to _________ what outcomes can be expected. I was determined to see my idea translate into a practical solution, but I faced ___________ and had no guarantee of _______. What I had was a very particular set of engineering skills, skills I'd acquired over my career

Solution

  1. artificial
  2. pollution
  3. online
  4. determine
  5. meaningful
  6. uncertainty
  7. success

Original Text

I began to develop an idea about what I could do to improve the situation. I started by simply asking myself how I could bring together in some meaningful way my skills in software engineering and artificial intelligence and the expertise of the people I'd reached out to. I wanted to create an online air-quality management platform that would uncover trends in pollution and project into the future to determine what outcomes can be expected. I was determined to see my idea translate into a practical solution, but I faced uncertainty and had no guarantee of success. What I had was a very particular set of engineering skills, skills I'd acquired over my career

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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air pollution 9
pollution problem 2
ambient air 2
south africa 2

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Important Words

  1. acquired
  2. artificial
  3. began
  4. bring
  5. career
  6. create
  7. determine
  8. determined
  9. develop
  10. engineering
  11. expected
  12. expertise
  13. faced
  14. future
  15. guarantee
  16. idea
  17. improve
  18. intelligence
  19. management
  20. meaningful
  21. online
  22. outcomes
  23. people
  24. platform
  25. pollution
  26. practical
  27. project
  28. reached
  29. set
  30. simply
  31. situation
  32. skills
  33. software
  34. solution
  35. started
  36. success
  37. translate
  38. trends
  39. uncertainty
  40. uncover
  41. wanted