While Model Trains

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3 levels of complexity: How I approach data science storytelling

Susan Shu Chang

A framework for crafting storylines in talks: help the audience understand real life impacts, bridge the context to abstract or technical, technical deep dives exist to do something.

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Data Cleaning IS Analysis, Not Grunt Work

Randy Au

"The act of cleaning data is the act of preferentially transforming data so that your chosen analysis algorithm produces interpretable results. That is also the act of data analysis."

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The Bitter Lesson

Richard Sutton

"The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin."

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