Data scientists: beware of simple metrics
Picking a metric for a problem means defining how you’ll measure success in solving that problem. Which sounds important, because it is, but oftentimes new data scientists only get experience with a f...
5 Jan 202024min
Communicating data science, from academia to industry
For something as multifaceted and ill-defined as data science, communication and sharing best practices across the field can be extremely valuable but also extremely, well, multifaceted and ill-define...
30 Des 201926min
Optimizing for the short-term vs. the long-term
When data scientists run experiments, like A/B tests, it’s really easy to plan on a period of a few days to a few weeks for collecting data. The thing is, the change that’s being evaluated might have ...
23 Des 201919min
Interview with Prof. Andrew Lo, on using data science to inform complex business decisions
This episode features Prof. Andrew Lo, the author of a paper that we discussed recently on Linear Digressions, in which Prof. Lo uses data to predict whether a medicine in the development pipeline wil...
16 Des 201927min
Using machine learning to predict drug approvals
One of the hottest areas in data science and machine learning right now is healthcare: the size of the healthcare industry, the amount of data it generates, and the myriad improvements possible in the...
8 Des 201925min
Facial recognition, society, and the law
Facial recognition being used in everyday life seemed far-off not too long ago. Increasingly, it’s being used and advanced widely and with increasing speed, which means that our technical capabilities...
2 Des 201943min
Lessons learned from doing data science, at scale, in industry
If you’ve taken a machine learning class, or read up on A/B tests, you likely have a decent grounding in the theoretical pillars of data science. But if you’re in a position to have actually built lot...
25 Nov 201928min
Varsity A/B Testing
When you want to understand if doing something causes something else to happen, like if a change to a website causes and dip or rise in downstream conversions, the gold standard analysis method is to ...
18 Nov 201936min
