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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

A naïve way to solve this problem would be to compare the proportion of buyers between the exposed and unexposed groups, using a simple test for equality of means. Identification We now discuss formally the statistical problem of causal inference. We start by describing the problem using standard statistical notation.

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

Because I’m an academic I like to look at the original founding documents. Here is an ancient document about data science, specifically a piece by Jeff Hammerbacher. The other ancient and canonical document for trying to explain to people above me what we do in the data science group is this one. Good, okay.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

The second rule of Foo Camp concerns a practice called “FrieNDA” where people speak candidly and others respect that without either (1) “Oh gosh I must live tweet stream this amazing insight” or (2) anybody having to sign legal documents. Sci Foo 2019. following a breakthrough paper or two, plus changes in market microstructure).