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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. Remember that the raw number is not the only important part, we would also measure statistical significance. Online, offline or nonline. The result?

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 9

Domino Data Lab

The lens of reductionism and an overemphasis on engineering becomes an Achilles heel for data science work. Instead, consider a “full stack” tracing from the point of data collection all the way out through inference. Use of influence functions goes back to the 1970s in robust statistics. That seems much more robust.