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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
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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
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