[Note: This post contains spoilers for the first episode of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan] A TV show where the lead character is a SQL-using analyst and economist? Count me in! But, it looks like it will mostly be a wartime heavy action political thriller so I probably won’t be as into it as Moneyball. I […]
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Data Leakage: How Data Collection Impacts the Decisions We Make and Vice Versa
I wrote this post on Cardinal Path’s blog. There is a lot to consider when building a model: Data leakage. Data leakage occurs when the data you are using to train a machine learning algorithm happens to include unexpected information related to what you are trying to predict, allowing the model or algorithm to make unrealistically […]
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail: choosing the right tool for the job
Check out this post that I wrote over on Cardinal Path’s blog that discusses finding the right tool for the job: A few weeks ago, a coworker asked me for some help with a data cleaning task. I consider him to be one of the best Tableau users in our office, and someone I frequent […]