#DATA

Philip Cowley

philipjcowley

About a decade ago, I was chatting to some Big Cheese in BBC Politics. I tried to persuade them to change the way they presented election results. I failed. I

Dane🥢

D_Ocean_surfer

DATA to OCEAN do you copy? . 1/ The word data looks so simple but yet so big, Data is a commodity just as important as oil. Big Tech” or

David Ma, hiring for eng

madavidj

As a recovering quant, I share this cautious sentiment about data driven decisions.Ways data driven decision can be worse than careful thinking:https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1288674294881427456 Precision is not accuracyA repeatable and

Patrick Bacon

TopDownHockey

My thoughts on Paul Maurice's crusade against public analytics:1. I love it. It's hilarious seeing stats nerds get offended by his quotes. But this is exactly how I'd want my

Deondre A. Smiles, Ph.D.

DeondreSmiles

Data is not anti-racist. Data sets are not just cold, empirical facts. How data is collected, how it is disseminated, how it is classified, represented, stored, these are all potential

Benedict Evans

benedictevans

Still playing with Eurostat ecommerce data, and still not very happy with it. Including mail order (which is 25-50% of this data!) masks the real growth in ecommerce, and using

enough is enough

EmilyGorcenski

Was chatting with a coworker today about what "data strategy" means and figured I'd share some thoughts since it was a good discussion. You can take these concepts and apply

Joshua Ebner

Josh_Ebner

Joking aside, this is an important point:If you're a beginner, you'll probably get a *lot* more use out of linear regression, logistic regression, and decision trees.[thread]#data #DataScience #MachineLearning https://twitter.com/tu

Jeffrey Williams

GeositeJeff

I have always viewed @Geosite's role with the Energy Industry as solving production problems. Particularly fusing isolated data sets (internal and third party). We have chosen to work with methane

Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt (Marian NMT)

marian_nmt

Hm. Aren't these just half-truths? At MS Translator we do both, we try to harvest as much free data as possible and we create custom translations where required. What we

Dennis Yi Tenen

dennistenen

Editors! If you insist on "data" being plural pls also use the singular in noun adjuncts, eg "datum set" & "datum science," to parallel "quantum theory" or "chicken soup" (never

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

We’re relying on Israel for data on vaccine impact.We’re relying on India for vaccine production.We’re relying on South Africa for data on how vaccines fare against B.1.351.We’re relying on UK

Dr. Chris Mackie

Healthmac

Cases of COVID in school children have spiked in an extreme way since the holiday school closure (see chart "Positive results by age group: All Ontario" @ website below).Schools being

Libraries Hacked

librarieshacked

Will be genuinely quite interesting to see how many library services have completed CIPFA stats for the previous year. Perhaps @CIPFA will be able to advise? There is no obligation

Jon DeTrinis

JonDeTrinis

The people of New Orleans are tired of the lies and games by our city leaders. If you tell us that “the data will decide” for 7 straight months, then

Jason Koebler

jason_koebler

SCOOP: The U.S. Military is buying user location data harvested from a Muslim prayer app that has been downloaded by 98 million people around the world, is using this type

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