Data Intuition Case Study: Grain-free Dog Food
My vet told me I should stop feeding my dog grain-free dog food.
Practical Data Science
Conversations about the soft side of Data Science. Also at blog.harterrt.com
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Getting Credit for Invisible Work
Last month I gave a talk at csv,conf on "Getting Credit for Invisible Work".
Opportunity Sizing - Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
My peers at Mozilla are running workshops on opportunity sizing. If you're unfamiliar, opportunity sizing is when you take some broad guesses at how impactful some new project might be before writing any code. This gives you a rough estimate of what the upside for this work might be.
Controlled Experiments - Why Bother?
I spent some time earlier this year orchestrating a massive experiment for Firefox.
Conversations about the soft side of Data Science
Welcome to Practical Data Science by me, Ryan Harter.
Leading with Data - Cascading Metrics
Leading with Data - Cascading Metrics
Defining Data Intuition
Last week, one of my peers asked me to explain what I meant by "Data Intuition", and I realized I really didn't have a good definition.
Surrogation
A year or so ago, I read this article about how Wells Fargo ended up in such a mess.
What do you take home?
Every other week, I go through my todo list and decide where I should focus my attention.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
Economists have a handy phrase to describe a fairly common fallacy: "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" meaning "After, therefore because".