Condense Fact from the Vapor of NuanceMike Conover, Ph.D. Staff Data Scientist, LinkedIn
UnambiguousConcrete Response Variables
Ad Clicks Real Estate Pricing
Flower Species
Qualitative Multidimensional
Non-Euclidean
Expertise
Nebulous
TrustSerendipity Sentiment
High-Fidelity Proxy Variables Crowdsourcing / In-House Evaluation
Tip of the Spear
Operationalize
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”George Box
Qualitative Evaluation
Heteroscedasticity Stratified Sampling
Temporal Factors
LightweightNarrative Frame Toy Examples Propaganda
“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”Eric S. Raymond
InfrastructureNotebooks
Model Viewers Soup to Nuts
Devil’s BargainFeature Transformations Transcription Errors Model Specification
Power ToolsSingularity Something’s Wrong. Go.
Spark & MLLib + Notebooks
Condense Fact from the Vapor of NuanceMike Conover, Ph.D. Staff Data Scientist, LinkedIn
BiomorphsIterating on Response Variables