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Why Nonprofits Shouldn’t Use Statistics

Depict Data Studio

— Thank you to Ann Emery, Depict Data Studio, and her Simple Spreadsheets class for inviting us to talk to them about the use of statistics in nonprofit program evaluation! But then we realized that much of the time, statistics just don’t have much of a role in nonprofit work. Why Nonprofits Shouldn’t Use Statistics.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly on Data

Without clarity in metrics, it’s impossible to do meaningful experimentation. AI PMs must ensure that experimentation occurs during three phases of the product lifecycle: Phase 1: Concept During the concept phase, it’s important to determine if it’s even possible for an AI product “ intervention ” to move an upstream business metric.

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Methods of Study Design – Experiments

Data Science 101

Bias ( syatematic unfairness in data collection ) can be a potential problem in experiments and we need to take it into account while designing experiments. Some pitfalls of this type of experimentation include: Suppose an experiment is performed to observe the relationship between the snack habit of a person while watching TV.

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What is a data scientist? A key data analytics role and a lucrative career

CIO Business Intelligence

According to data from Robert Half’s 2021 Technology and IT Salary Guide, the average salary for data scientists, based on experience, breaks down as follows: 25th percentile: $109,000 50th percentile: $129,000 75th percentile: $156,500 95th percentile: $185,750 Data scientist responsibilities.

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly on Data

All you need to know for now is that machine learning uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to “learn” by being trained on existing data. After training, the system can make predictions (or deliver other results) based on data it hasn’t seen before. Machine learning adds uncertainty.

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Glossary of Digital Terminology for Career Relevance

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Computer Vision: Data Mining: Data Science: Application of scientific method to discovery from data (including Statistics, Machine Learning, data visualization, exploratory data analysis, experimentation, and more). They cannot process language inputs generally. See [link]. 3) Warehouse / Logistics.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

1]" Statistics, as a discipline, was largely developed in a small data world. Data was expensive to gather, and therefore decisions to collect data were generally well-considered. As computing and storage have made data collection cheaper and easier, we now gather data without this underlying motivation.