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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

He was saying this doesn’t belong just in statistics. He also really informed a lot of the early thinking about data visualization. It involved a lot of interesting work on something new that was data management. To some extent, academia still struggles a lot with how to stick data science into some sort of discipline.

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Decision-Making in a Time of Crisis

O'Reilly on Data

We know, statistically, that doubling down on an 11 is a good (and common) strategy in blackjack. But when making a decision under uncertainty about the future, two things dictate the outcome: (1) the quality of the decision and (2) chance. Mike had made the common error of equating a bad outcome with a bad decision.