Eric Alpert

[Jeremy Stanley @jeremystan]

1/ The year is 2003, and I’m in a bar questioning my life choices.

After months of travel and $100k+ in fees, our machine learning model failed badly on the test set.

Most ML efforts create no value. We should learn from those failures.

Here is a favorite of mine.
(attempt #2)

[vicki @vboykis]

New blog post: For the past couple years, I've been telling people who ask me for advice not to go into data science. Here's why: The data science job market is way oversaturated. Here's what they should do instead.
https://t.co/eamgGSMexW

[Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader]

Data science leaders: there are too many of you! Here's why https://t.co/Ix0BmrAbFR

[Carnegie Mellon Statistics & Data Science @CMU_StatDS]

So proud of our amazing and ever-growing department! Faculty, staff, students, & alumni. #humblebrag https://t.co/qkCH3PuSFY

[Hadley Wickham @hadleywickham]

New data scientist definition: A data scientist is a statistician who is wearing a bow tie 😝

[Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85]

Every machine learning algorithm... (via xkcd https://t.co/toJlTLx16s) #DataScience

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

Got a useful reminder via email from @BaumerBen: good research starts with an interesting/important question, not a fancy tool or large data

[Roberto Alonso González Lezcano @robertoglezcano]

#Science news
Non-scientist vs #Scientist
by @GlobalEcoGuy #phdchat #DataScience #research

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

As technologists, it's so important we learn from, & try not to reproduce, the inherent injustices of existing social structures #TCDisrupt https://t.co/sphdwf184J

[Russ Roberts @EconTalker]

This is everything that is wrong with empirical economics. How can you confidently isolate an effect like this? Faux science. https://t.co/2YgxA46trB

[PHD Comics @PHDcomics]

Dear News Media - https://t.co/50YMqBJuwO #tbw

[Boston Police Dept. @bostonpolice]

CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody.