Matt Gershoff

CEO of Conductrics.
Inference is not a Technology.

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

@British_Airways @British_Airways "I'm connecting you with an agent who can assist." This suggests the present or very near future. It is now 20 min since your 'agent', either AI or not, sent that DM text to me. Its getting late, and I am not sure if I am meant to stay up and just wait?

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

Can someone at @British_Airways DM me? I have 'booked' tickets on the BA site, had payment accepted (I see it pending on my card) but page returned a note indicating that while the payment was accepted the booking was not completed and I should contact BA without any other info.

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

@British_Airways Payment for the tickets are pending (I can see it on my CC's app) but there is no booking number.

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

@AmericanAir Your description of the ticket rules does not match the ticket rules of your Porter Air codeshare partner.

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

Hello @AmericanAir I think your website might not give correct info for Porter Air codeshare flights. I wound up with a Basic Econ Ticket from AUS to YYZ? But pretty sure only Main, Main Extra, and Premium are offered. I couldn't find any example dates where a Basic is offered.

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

@AmericanAir Maybe someone at @AmericanAir can 'buy' a ticket from AUS to YYZ on the Porter air codeshare and see that the fair rules on the AA website don't match the rules at Porter (i.e no free checked bags, and no carry on bag allowed. I bought this test ticket - Porter rules don't match

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

Amusing podcast where @ezraklein plays Larry Gopnik to Mark Epstein's Nachtner
https://t.co/CpsJaWdydd

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

Good fun at #measurecamptoronto talking about Privacy by design and how applying data minimization gets you both K-anonymization AND ability to efficiently construct Gramian matrices for OLS.

[Christopher Berry @cjpberry]

Pure bias reinforcing dopamine right there. @mgershoff summarizes #PrivacybyDesign at #measurecampto

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

Off to London for @MeasureCampLDN
We have a new batch of Conductrics INC Select whiskey from @MilamandGreene over here from Texas and alfajores direct from Buenos Aires as prizes and give aways.

For talks I will do something on Privacy Engineering and AB Testing.

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

@seanjtaylor Yes but you pay for it with the US=>Europe Jet lag

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

@dggoldst Been Solved

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

tl;dl Privacy by design & customer first philosophy, if not two sides of the same coin, are consistent with each other.
Collecting customer data is akin to asking for something. Customer first means asking from customers only when its a GOOD FAITH attempt to enrich THEIR lives.

[Analytics Power Hour @AnalyticsHour]

"Collect everything" is easy to say. It can even be rationalized. Think a little deeper, though, and the dangers of this mindset are pretty easy to surface. That's the topic of our latest episode with @mgershoff! https://t.co/7Tx5FjgN45

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

@danbarker Wow and all just to see the theme song to the the Royle Family performed live.

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

@cjpberry That turns out to be culturally specific - in parts of Europe they use different colors/markers for

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

I had such a great time getting to meet and chat with the Columbus analytics community. Thank you @tgwilson and the team at @cbusdaw for taking personal time to organize such a welcoming event!

[Tim Wilson @tgwilson]

Privacy by design and more with @mgershoff at @cbusdaw !

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

@cjpberry @tgwilson @cbusdaw Gotta get you down to Austin

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

@tgwilson @MilamandGreene We have none of them so no special privileges here 🤣

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

I know people and I still haven't been able to get a bottle from the Wildlife collection. Gotta up my click submit game.
@MilamandGreene
https://t.co/kmAum4i3lj

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

Ride Sharing product idea.
User Setting Toggle for accept/decline "air freshener'.

[Matt Gershoff @mgershoff]

Great. As an extension to her note about effects heterogeneity. I think it is more that contextual bandits/Targeting is unlikely to be valuable unless there is a theory why there should be heterogeneity. If you don't then just run a simple RCT or Epsilon-First bandit.

[Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor]

These recent slides from Susan Athey and Guido Imbens at NBER are a great recent review of the most valuable data science methods I'm aware of. They cover tons of ground with lots of pointers.

https://t.co/BEjcLLi2vq