O'Reilly on Data

MAY 27, 2020

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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Risk Testing Reporting Measurement 355

Domino Data Lab

JULY 22, 2019

He was saying this doesn’t belong just in statistics. It involved a lot of work with applied math, some depth in statistics and visualization, and also a lot of communication skills. I can point to the year 2001. It was also the year, 2001, when “ Agile Manifesto ” was published. Tukey did this paper.

Data Science 109

Data Science Machine Learning Data Governance Modeling 109

Domino Data Lab

JANUARY 6, 2019

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. Lately I’ve been developing curriculum for a client for their new “Intro to Data Science” sequence of courses. This is not a new gig, by any stretch.

Data Science 56

Data Science Machine Learning Reporting Visualization 56

Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 8, 2019

Consider the following timeline: 2001 – Physics grad students are getting hired in quantity by hedge funds to work on Wall St. 2008 – Financial crisis : scientists flee Wall St. They tend to use less machine learning, but more advanced statistical practices, since the outcomes (government policies, etc.)

Data Science 71

Data Science Machine Learning Data Governance Statistics 71