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Analytics Dispatch 12/30/2019

A decade of differences

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R Cookbook
A great, free resource (for new R users especially) that's full of several how-to recipes, each solving a specific problem. - R Cookbook

EENY, MEENY, MINY, MOE
Want To Make Good Business Decisions? Learn Causality
This causality walkthrough uses an example that plagues many modern marketing teams: “Should we pay for branded search ads?” - MultiThreaded

A LITTLE ADVICE
The Twelve Truths of Machine Learning for the Real World
“In the Real World, the distribution of input more likely changes than not, ‘curve balls’ from long-tails come out of nowhere, and you don’t always have an answer.” - Delip Rao

IN THE LOOP
A Cool SQL Problem: Avoiding For-Loops
This is a perfect screening or whiteboarding question for many quant finance jobs, and it’s still a great problem for many roles that have nothing to do with finance. - r x y, r

RETROSPECTIVE
U.S. Has Changed in Key Ways in the Past Decade, From Tech Use to Demographics
How does the country compare to 10 years ago? - Pew Research Center

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