While Model Trains

Read data blog posts.
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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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Markov Chains

Victor Powell and Lewis Lehe

A fascinating explanation of Markov Chains with interactive simulations.

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Data scientists work alone and that's bad

Ethan Rosenthal

"The norm is that of a lonely life for the data scientist. Whether they lie near analytics, machine learning, or elsewhere in the large latent space that spans this ill-defined role, just like in the curse of high-dimensionality, they are likely alone."

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