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Drew Conway

Head of Data Science, Private Investments, Two Sigma · 1 appearance on the record.

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Drew Conway created the Data Science Venn Diagram and co-authored the book Machine Learning for Hackers. He co-founded the nonprofit DataKind, founded industrial AI startup Alluvium, and leads data science for private investments at Two Sigma.

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Insight
Conway: Human elements of data science are harder to teach than math
“I think it's much harder to learn and be trained on the human aspect than it is to be trained on the math and the computer science.”
Drew Conway Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 4:30 Panel Discussion // Data Driven #16 // May 2013
Insight
Conway: Extra model features carry statistical and cognitive explainability penalties
“Think very parsimoniously about what you bring into your model, because with each one of those, not only are you incurring a statistical penalty, you're incurring a sort of brain penalty and having to explain why the result is what it is when you get to whatev…”
Drew Conway Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 54:56 Panel Discussion // Data Driven #16 // May 2013

The other half of the tape: Drew Conway's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 6 times in 4 episodes on the MAD Podcast. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

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Panel Discussion // Data Driven #16 // May 2013 Dec 5, 2013 6m
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