Dr. Jenny Yang

ML at Apple. PhD Biostatistician. @unc alum. Interested in causal inference, experimentation and precision health interventions. Thoughts my own.

[Committee on Minorities in Statistics of the ASA @AmstatComis]

Jenny Yang (@datajyang) will host a round table discussion titled:

"Prepare for a job in Tech"

on 8/10 @ 9:00 AM EST in Breakout Room 3

[Dr. Jenny Yang @datajyang]

@GavinNewsom Will my mother be allowed a vaccine? She has been here since the beginning of COVID because of my pregnancy (now baby), she hasn't returned due to guidelines around flights.

[Zoë McLaren, Ph.D. @ZoeMcLaren]

@NateSilver538 Prioritizing vaccinations by risk of mortality and morbidity is both efficient and equitable. Thread.
https://t.co/BKY4tEr0On

[Rachel Thomas @math_rachel]

I have long admired @timnitGebru for her brilliance, moral courage, clear voice in speaking up for what is right, & influential scholarship. It is truly terrible that Google would do this.

In this thread, I want to share some of Timnit's work I love

https://t.co/9hi0f9nCe0

[Dr. Jenny Yang @datajyang]

Within the field of tech medical devices, I'm seeing a resurgence of interest in incorporating causal inference into their AI/DL work which actually has been a huge shift from just 2 years ago. It's been promising to see.

[Judea Pearl @yudapearl]

This question annoys ALL students (and professors) of ML, but they are afraid to ask. Thanks for raising it in this "no hand waving" forum. Take two causal diagrams:
X-->Y and X<--Y, and ask a neural network to decide which is more probable, after seeing 10 billion samples. 1/n

[Dr. Jenny Yang @datajyang]

Thanks for inviting me to speak @BJKStephenson! This was really fun to talk about and I really enjoyed being able to share my narrow slice of health tech!

[Dr. Briana Stephenson @BJKStephenson]

Grateful to be able to end this week with friend/colleague @datajyang from @clover_health crashing my virtual office hours to share with my class Bayesian approaches in data science that optimize interventions in #HealthTech

[Derrick Johnson @DerrickNAACP]

Thank you @maddow, the @NAACP is dedicated to encouraging, uplifting and supporting the black community as we display our #PowerAtThePolls. #BlacktheVote #VoteOurLivesDependOnIt

[Dr. Briana Stephenson @BJKStephenson]

Feels like yesterday I was writing diversity statements with the heaviest of side eyes...

[Julian Wolfson @drjwolfson.bsky.app @DrJWolfson]

We (epi & biostat folks) have a major conflict of interest when it comes to evaluating COVID research that I’m not sure we’ve fully acknowledged. 1/

[Dr. Jenny Yang @datajyang]

As a working mother, that gave birth 4 months ago in the pandemic and is now back at work with 2 under 5, I feel the veil of sanity slowly slipping from my grasp. There is no answer here that isn't systematic.

[Dr. Jenny Yang @datajyang]

"617,000 women left the workforce in September alone, compared with only 78,000 men, according to government data released Friday"

The impact of this pandemic on working mothers has been brushed aside, but it will set us back decades.

https://t.co/YZBcl6bkVT

[JSC @JSCCapital]

0/ $IPOC announced the acquisition of Clover Health for $3.7B inclusive of a $400M PIPE (w/ $100M from @chamath). This values the company at 4.2x EV/Rev & 2.1x '23 revenue. Importantly management is rolling over 100% of their equity

[Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader]

@kareem_carr Stats:
"statistically speaking..."
"accept the null"
"...we reran the test until..."

ML:
"the AI decided..."
"after exploring the data, we split it..."
"our test set performance was even better than our training performance"

Analytics:
"hypothesis"
"we conclude"
"insights"

[Dr. Jenny Yang @datajyang]

@CALFIRECZU thanks for all your work, what's the best way to donate to the San Mateo event center for the evacuees? Should those in San Mateo city prepare to need to evacuate?

[Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar]

Big Basin Redwoods State Park (Santa Cruz Co.) "sustained extensive damage” to “park’s headquarters, historic core and campgrounds."

https://t.co/8JA4qqWPph

[Rachel Thomas @math_rachel]

Videos from @StanfordAIMI Symposium are up! I spoke on why we need to expand the conversation on bias & fairness.

I will share some slides & related links in this THREAD, but please watch my 17-minute talk in full (the other talks are excellent too!) 1/

https://t.co/QtFt0OgURs

[Dr. Jenny Yang @datajyang]

@PHuenermund @RobGuinness @netflix @eliasbareinboim @JMateosGarcia Thanks! For context, I've personally used do calculus in genetic studies and currently have an accepted paper focused on reducing FDR in cases of extremely large p. I have seen a lot of practical issues in the application which makes it hard to generalize to automated studies.

[Dr. Jenny Yang @datajyang]

@PHuenermund @RobGuinness @netflix @eliasbareinboim @JMateosGarcia Thanks for the write up, are there references with studies evaluating this on real world scenarios?