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Reclaiming the stories that algorithms tell

O'Reilly on Data

In 2001, just as the Lexile system was rolling out state-wide, a professor of education named Stephen Krashen took to the pages of the California School Library Journal to raise an alarm. Inevitably, patients with risk factors that are excluded from the model’s adjustments present a threat to each surgeon’s statistics.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 5

Domino Data Lab

I’ve been teaching data science since 2008 privately for employers – exec staff, investors, IT teams, and the data teams I’ve led – and since 2013, for industry professionals in general. Guess who benefits most by that? Lately I’ve been developing curriculum for a client for their new “Intro to Data Science” sequence of courses.