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John Rauser

Lead Data Scientist, Pinterest. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Rauser is known across the tech industry for influential conference talks on statistics and graphical perception, notably Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain and How Humans See Data. Throughout his career, he built data and engineering systems across companies including Farecast, Amazon, Pinterest, and Snap.

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Everything John Rauser said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

MAD Disclosure
Pinterest data scientist John Rauser cannot derive the t-distribution from scratch
“There might be five people in this room, the people who raised their hands, who could sit down and just derive this from first principles. I am certainly not among those people, and I am a working data scientist.”
John Rauser Oct 16, 2014 ▶ 9:21 John Rauser, Pinterest // Big Data at Pinterest // Data Driven NYC (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
MAD Opinion
John Rauser says many software engineers fake their understanding of statistics
“What I want to claim today is that many of you are faking it when it comes to statistics.”
John Rauser Oct 16, 2014 ▶ 2:02 John Rauser, Pinterest // Big Data at Pinterest // Data Driven NYC (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
MAD Insight
John Rauser: Classical analytical statistics relies on assumptions that are rarely true
“The analytical approach is not better. This is an approximation to a distribution under a model with a whole bunch of assumptions which are rarely true and are almost always ignored anyway.”
John Rauser Oct 16, 2014 ▶ 12:24 John Rauser, Pinterest // Big Data at Pinterest // Data Driven NYC (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
MAD Insight
John Rauser: Working data scientists must know how to code
“Yeah, I mean, I think, ah, like a working data scientist has to be able to code, because if they can't fish for themselves, right?”
John Rauser Oct 16, 2014 ▶ 15:15 John Rauser, Pinterest // Big Data at Pinterest // Data Driven NYC (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
MAD Assertion Supported
A study shows beer drinkers attract 4.4 more mosquitoes than water drinkers
“To get the, to find that the average person who drank beer attracted 4.4 more mosquitoes than the average water drinker.”
John Rauser Oct 16, 2014 ▶ 5:51 John Rauser, Pinterest // Big Data at Pinterest // Data Driven NYC (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
MAD Insight
John Rauser says programming gives developers superpowers for learning statistics
“If you can program a computer You have superpowers when it comes to learning statistics, because being able to program allows you to tinker with the most fundamental ideas in statistics, the way you might have tinkered with electronics when you were a kid, or …”
John Rauser Oct 16, 2014 ▶ 13:56 John Rauser, Pinterest // Big Data at Pinterest // Data Driven NYC (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
MAD Disclosure
Moving from Hive to Amazon Redshift was a game changer for Pinterest
“At Pinterest we use Redshift. We're big users of Amazon's Redshift product. That's been a pretty substantial game changer for us moving away from Hive.”
John Rauser Oct 16, 2014 ▶ 17:33 John Rauser, Pinterest // Big Data at Pinterest // Data Driven NYC (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

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