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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

They learned about a lot of process that requires that you get rid of uncertainty. They’re being told they have to embrace uncertainty. In 2005, a colleague had moved to Seattle, and he was on a new project, and he kept calling me with these really weird questions about a new kind of service. How could that make sense?

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Measuring Validity and Reliability of Human Ratings

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Editor's note : The relationship between reliability and validity are somewhat analogous to that between the notions of statistical uncertainty and representational uncertainty introduced in an earlier post. Measurement challenges Assessing reliability is essentially a process of data collection and analysis.