The Credibility Crisis in Data Science (with Skipper Seabold)
Skipper Seabold, a Director of Data Science at Civis Analytics, discusses the current and looming credibility crisis in data science.
About Skipper Seabold
Skipper is a Director of Data Science at Civis Analytics, a data science technology and solutions company. He leads a team of data scientists from all walks of life from physicists and engineers to statisticians and computer scientists. He is an economist by training and has a decade of experience working in the Python data community. He started and led the statsmodels Python project, was formerly on the core pandas team, and has contributed to several projects in Python data stack.
Links from the show
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FROM THE INTERVIEW
- Skipper on Twitter
- Skipper on Github
- What's the Science in Data Science? (Video by Skipper Seabold)
- The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design Is Taking the Con out of Econometrics (By Joshua D. Angrist & Jörn-Steffen Pischke, American Economic Association)
- Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager: A FranklinCovey Title (By Kory Kogon)
- Courtyard by Marriott Designing a Hotel Facility with Consumer-Based Marketing Models (Jerry Wind et al., The Institute of Management Sciences)
- Statsmodels's Documentation
FROM THE SEGMENTS
Guidelines for A/B Testing (with Emily Robinson ~15:48 & ~35:20)
- Guidelines for A/B Testing (By Emily Robinson)
- 10 Guidelines for A/B Testing Slides (By Emily Robinson)
Original music and sounds by The Sticks.
