Issue 183
— In the News —
How Shoddy Statistics Found A Home In Sports Research
Here's how a math trick that's commonly used in sports science to find "meaningful results" in small sample sizes is seriously flawed. Even so, it's widely used and the leading paper promoting the technique has more than 2500 citations. This article from FiveThirtyEight explores the method and how it's managed to thrive in spite of its problems.
Data Protectionism: The Growing Menace to Global Business
More and more, cross-border data flows are key to the global economy and yet, governments are increasingly blocking those flows. Some of it's about privacy but it's far from just that. This article in The Financial Times takes a hard look at what's at stake and what issues need to be navigated.
— Profiles —
To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect
Judea Pearl, a pioneering figure in artificial intelligence, argues that AI has been stuck in a decades-long rut. His prescription for progress? Teach machines to understand the question why.
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— Tools and Techniques —
How will the GDPR impact machine learning?
Machine learning isn't prohibited but the GDPR impacts machine learning in key ways. Here's a thoughtful set of answers to commonly asked questions about maintaining machine learning programs that are GDPR-compliant.
Delayed Impact of Fair Machine Learning
Great interactive article from the Berkeley AI Research group that shows how "fair" machine learning algorithms can have unintended consequences over the long term.
Data Science for Startups: Data Pipelines
This is the beginning of what looks like will be a fantastic series about building a data science discipline at a startup. The latest installment covers considerations for building data pipelines, including the evolution of data pipelines, properties of a high functioning data pipeline, and a sample pipeline built on GCP. For information about the entire series, see the Introduction.
How to Start Your First Data Science Project
This is a great tutorial that shows how to start and finish a simple data science project using Python and Yellowbrick - from exploratory data analysis, to feature selection and feature engineering, to model building and evaluation.
easy-tensorflow
This set of TensorFlow tutorials combines detailed tutorials with simple code implementations.
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