While Model Trains

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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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Confession of a so-called AI expert

Chip Huyen

"Even though I’m one of the beneficiary of this AI craze, I can’t help but thinking this will burst. I don’t know how and when, but I have this belief that the system is currently being rigged in favor of people whose resumes dotted with fancy keywords like mine, and a rigged system can’t be sustainable."

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The Four Jobs of the Data Scientist

Roger Peng

For each "Data Analytic Iteration," you need to embody the roles of a scientist, statistician, system engineer, and politician.

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