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I’ve always been intrigued by the concept of cognitive bias for the simple reason that it exposes the flaws in one’s thinking and ability to make sound decisions. Every analyst, and in fact everyone, stands to benefit from understanding what cognitive biases are so they can be kept to a minimum or spotted when interacting with others. This piece discusses the anchor effect, how it is used to gain or lose advantage (consciously or unconsciously), and how its effects can be mitigated when dealing
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I’ve written a new book, titled Big Data, Big Dupe , which will be published on February 1, 2018. As the title suggests, it is an exposé on Big Data—one that is long overdue. To give you an idea of the content, here’s the text that will appear on the book’s back cover: Big Data, Big Dupe is a little book about a big bunch of nonsense. The story of David and Goliath inspires us to hope that something little, when armed with truth, can topple something big that is a lie.
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If you are meeting or contacting stakeholders for the first time and trying to understand their world, you need structure. By structure, I mean a framework of questions to channel the direction of the conversation or requirements elicitation. I was invited to prepare a business process documentation for a client who was based in another country. Traveling to meet the client was not an option.
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If you are meeting or contacting stakeholders for the first time and trying to understand their world, you need structure. By structure, I mean a framework of questions to channel the direction of the conversation or requirements elicitation. I was invited to prepare a business process documentation for a client who was based in another country. Traveling to meet the client was not an option.
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Disagreements and confusion are often characterized as mere matters of semantics. There is nothing “mere” about semantics, however. Differences that are based in semantics can be insidious, for we can differ semantically without even realizing it. It is our shared understanding of word meanings that enables us to communicate. Unfortunately, our failure to define our terms clearly lies at the root of countless misunderstandings and a world of confusion.
Recently I was working on a in-class competition from the “How to win a data science competition” Coursera course. You can start for free with the 7-day Free Trial. Learned a lot of new things from that about using XGBoost for time series prediction tasks. The one thing that I tried out in this competition was the Hyperopt package - A bayesian Parameter Tuning Framework.
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