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Analytics Dispatch 5/2/2022

The ML job market

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JOB SEARCH
All Roads Lead to Rome: The Machine Learning Job Market in 2022
In the next decade we may see software companies adopt an “Artificial General Intelligence strategy” as a means to make their software more adaptive and generally useful. - Eric Jang

EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY
Bring Back Scenario Analysis!
Scenario analysis, while often being quantitatively not-that-complex, is different from descriptive and prescriptive statistics in one key way that is culturally very hard for data people: it forces you to assume things you don’t know. - The Analytics Engineering Roundup

FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT
Faking It: How to Simulate Complex Data Generation Processes in R, Tidyverse Edition
Data simulation is central to much of a social scientist’s work. Unfortunately, it’s rarely taught in graduate schools. This post attempts to rectify that. - A. Jordan Nafa

WORDPLAY
A Better Way to Lie With Statistics
It’s not the data that gets us, but the adjectives that describe it. - benn.substack

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