Making Data Mistakes

How to make your software team much more effective?

Programming is the closest we have to magic in the real world. Just like magic, you can conjure rich and powerful creations with the power of your own mind, given the right tools and training. Just as powerful magic could lay waste to an entire army, powerful programming can do 07 Dec 2020 1 min read Collaboration

What is precision vs recall, and why should I care?

Wrong answers matter in different ways for a retina scanner outside a bank vault vs a cancer detector. This is why you need to understand precision vs recall. 02 Nov 2020 4 min read Data Science

What does it take to transition from Senior to Chief Data Scientist?

I’ve been asked this question by a few highly competent Senior Data Scientists over the years.

What is Machine Learning?

Machine learning algorithms are faced with the same challenge you had as a pupil at school. There’s going to be an exam. The higher you score the better, and you'll be given some exams from the past with answer sheets to study from. 28 Sep 2020 2 min read Data Science

How to write good software faster (we spend 90% of our time debugging)?

If we spend the majority of our programming time and effort on debugging, we should focus our efforts on speeding up our debugging (rather than trying to write code faster). 10 Aug 2020 8 min read Data Science