Economist Robin Hansen’s most viral tweet says: “Good CS expert says: Most firms that think they want advanced AI/ML really just need linear regression on cleaned-up data.” I’d take this even further and say that most firms that think they want linear regression really just need good data visualization on trustworthy data. And those that […]
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Reminiscing about 2016 Data Science Conferences
Remember last year’s data science conferences? We are well into 2017 but I’ve been thinking about my favourite data science talks from 2016 as the same conferences from last year come up again. I’m excited to see what talks come out of the conferences this year! useR!2017 just released its schedule and I’m excited to […]
Attribution and Goodhart’s Law
Check out this post I wrote on Cardinal Path’s blog! This is one of my favourite blog posts. Goodhart’s Law seems to pop up everywhere! That’s why you need to think about how you measure your goals and targets and make sure they don’t skew incentives in an undesirable direction. From the post: “When a measure […]