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Volinsky: Cell phone data reflects identity, browsing habits, and physical location
“Your cell phone Is a real reflection of who you are, where you surf, where you are.”
Volinsky: Effective data visualization often requires large physical paper printouts
“Sometimes to do really good data visualization, You need to kill some trees, unfortunately. There's not, there's very little substitute for, like, actually printing something out huge and putting it on the wall.”
Volinsky: Earth Mover's Distance Is a Brilliant Metric for Data Science
“If you've, if you're working in a, if you're doing data science and you need a good distance metric, this, look at the earth mover distance. I had never heard of it before, and it's a brilliant, brilliant piece of science that's, of course, decades old.”