Data Science and Beyond

JULY 22, 2018

I got my first data science job in 2012, the year Harvard Business Review announced data scientist to be the sexiest job of the 21st century. Two years later, I published a post on my then-favourite definition of data science , as the intersection between software engineering and statistics. Things have changed considerably since 2012.

Data Science 79

Data Science Machine Learning Statistics Predictive Modeling 79

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

We data scientists now have access to tools that allow us to run a large numbers of experiments, and then to slice experimental populations by any combination of dimensions collected. Make experimentation cheap and understand the cost of bad decisions. This leads to the proliferation of post hoc hypotheses. Consider your loss function.

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Experimentation Testing Statistics Metrics 61

O'Reilly on Data

JULY 25, 2023

My student and I recently published a research paper on this topic, which we summarized in our Radar article Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT. I also installed the latest VS Code (Visual Studio Code) with GitHub Copilot and the experimental Copilot Chat plugins, but I ended up not using them much.

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