The things they never tell you in statistics classes
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Business analytics is ridden with confirmation bias
With the right process, you can keep it in check
The technologies that every analytics group needs to have
Four game-changing technologies can enable a world-class analytics group
Five behaviors of great Data Science coders
With so many people jumping on the data science bandwagon, how can you tell a great R coder from the rest?
Spreadsheets are slowing our progress
While the debate rages about a reproducibility crisis in academia, there’s a much more common one right under our noses
Five ways to reduce bias in your recruiting
The recent press reports on bias in recruiting technology oversimplify a complex issue. Bias is everywhere — it’s about how you manage it.
Building a model? Here’s the first question you should ask
Whether your model is meant to be explanatory or predictive has profound implications for its design
How to build an analytics team for impact in an organization
The analytics value lifecycle is a framework that can help with the design and structure of an analytics team
Politeness is the key to positive workplaces
Is the workplace will getting progressively less polite? And should we be worried about this?
What smoking did for people analytics
How survival analysis was born out of the battle against smoking