The Stages VRP always donate a proportion of their working hours as part of their Pledge 1% initiative and chose the Noise Solution idea as the perfect project to work on a fully pro bono basis. We set to work evaluating potential natural language processing (NLP) models in terms of performance, accuracy and cloud resources. During the prototyping phase, VRP tested Salesforce Einstein Language and intelligent APIs from cloud vendors such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud. Tableau CRM was ultimately chosen to enable very high levels of accuracy, performance and security. With the analytics platform and model decided, VRP next built a proof of concept (PoC) using the chosen model. The results proved that purely from the data, it could accurately determine whether teenagers needed easier or more difficult sessions. Finally, VRP deployed the model into production, connecting it to real data feeds ready for a period of live learning and refinement of the model.
The Result Noise Solution now has a powerful, secure and scalable platform that is capable of providing live evaluations of their impact and program participants’ wellbeing. It can help their team quickly and effectively find the best course of action as soon as a session finishes. The platform also empowers the young people to get a greater, more motivating sense of their own triumphs, with support and comments from adults whose opinions matter to them - and who can now play a closer role than ever before. And, in a sector that’s historically had difficulty demonstrating its impact, Noise Solution now has groundbreaking capabilities for telling its success stories vividly and persuasively using a wealth of both quantitative and qualitative data.
Company Profile Noise Solution is a social enterprise that employs evidenced approaches to improving the wellbeing of vulnerable youth. Sessions involve pairing young people with music producers, and digitally capturing and safely sharing every participant’s journey within a safe, secure platform that performs like a social media platform. Each participant shares their music, achievements, thoughts and feelings about the process with family and keyworkers, who can then provide comments. This approach to digital youth work is multi-nationally award-winning and has been independently assessed as saving over a million pounds a year for local authority services and families across the East of England.
