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Data Discussion Lessons from Brad Pitt

Juice Analytics

From: Ocean's Eleven (2001) Now imagine yourself giving a pep talk to the next email, PowerPoint slide, or dashboard that you are about to send out. Messages must be clear and focused and eliminate the unnatural, mechanical chart headings and the unnecessarily complex statistical jargon. How exactly is this metric calculated?

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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming. Ultimately, data science is used in defining new business problems that machine learning techniques and statistical analysis can then help solve.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Identification We now discuss formally the statistical problem of causal inference. We start by describing the problem using standard statistical notation. The field of statistical machine learning provides a solution to this problem, allowing exploration of larger spaces. For a random sample of units, indexed by $i = 1.

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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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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

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.

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Estimating the prevalence of rare events — theory and practice

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Of course, any mistakes by the reviewers would propagate to the accuracy of the metrics, and the metrics calculation should take into account human errors. If we could separate bad videos from good videos perfectly, we could simply calculate the metrics directly without sampling. The missing verdicts create two problems.

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