While Model Trains

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Presented 3 at a time.

Unit Testing in Data Science

Jason Ash

A practical example of unit testing a function used to clean data before analysis.

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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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Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation

Gwern

"Despite this admonition, people are overconfident in claiming correlations to support favored causal interpretations and are surprised by the results of randomized experiments, suggesting that they are biased & systematically underestimate the prevalence of confounds / common-causation."

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