Kaiser Fung, author of Numbersense and founder of Principal Analytics Prep, sees a crisis of confidence in self-reported non-financial metrics by technology upstarts. He calls for third-party auditing.
Kaiser Fung, author of Numbersense and founder of Principal Analytics Prep, sees a crisis of confidence in self-reported non-financial metrics by technology upstarts. He calls for third-party auditing.
Some Announcements: Dr. Nina Zumel will be presenting “Myths of Data Science: Things you Should and Should Not Believe”, Sunday, October 29, 2017 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM at the She Talks Data Meetup (Bay Area). ODSC West 2017 is soon. It is our favorite conference and we will be giving both a workshop and … Continue reading Some Announcements
Kaiser Fung, founder of Principal Analytics Prep, comments on the fake data and fraud problem in digital advertising, and calls on data scientists and analysts to rise up to the challenge.
After the NBA Hackathon (see report here), I caught up with the winning team in the business analytics competition, DataBucket, composed of Barbara Zhan and Harold Li. Junkcharts: Congratulations for winning the business analytics competition at the NBA Hackathon. As a judge, I was very impressed by how much work you were able to do in 24 hours. Did you sleep or did you work all the way through? DataBucket:…
There are substantial differences between ad-hoc analyses (be they: machine learning research, data science contests, or other demonstrations) and production worthy systems. Roughly: ad-hoc analyses have to be correct only at the moment they are run (and often once they are correct, that is the last time they are run; obviously the idea of reproducible … Continue reading My advice on dplyr::mutate()
Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, the next-gen data analytics bootcamp, discusses ethical issues concerning Uber's collection of user data from smartphone apps.
It's hard to keep up with Andrew Gelman, so let me point to some interesting recent posts from his blog. Readings on philosophy of statistics (link): Andrew has a bunch of links of (mostly his own) writings about deep statistical issues. Science is about understanding how the world works, which involves questions of cause and effect, and randomness and unexplained variability. Data that can be observed are almost never sufficient…
Kaiser Fung, founder of Principal Analytics Prep and author of Numbersense, discusses a recent legal ruling against LinkedIn's technologies that restricts web scraping.
Serena Ng's World Congress piece is out as an NBER w.p. It's been floating around for a long time, but just in case you missed it, it's a fun and insightful read:Opportunities and Challenges: Lessons from Analyzing Terabytes of Scanner Datab...
Kaiser Fung, founder of Principal Analytics Prep and author of Numbersense, reacts to the news that Roomba captures detailed maps of people's homes.
