Nick Heitzman 📊📈

Leader of data scientists and analytics at Allegion, Plc. Loves all things #rstats, #python, data visualization and machine learning.

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Histograms in stats courses vs histograms in real life

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@chrisalbon Create a double stock for your soup https://t.co/IFIHTHMQti

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@TroyCoroles @hamptonism Keep up the hard work and ignore BS like the original tweet

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@uscensusbureau Please stop doing this. Your chart makes it look like retail inventories have tripled when they have not. A bar chart is not an acceptable chart choice if you want a non-zero y-axis.

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We need more innovation like this

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@CalAddison @PhDemetri No, data science is not dead.

The standard day in a life of a data science is changing, but there is still a key role for those who understand how to analyze data and can apply algorithms.

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@uscensusbureau @uscensusbureau This bar chart is extremely deceiving since the y-axis does not start at zero! It looks like inventories have more than doubled in your chart, but actually they are up 4%

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Git is very important. But it's more important for students to master the basics before git.

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During my data science program, Git was taught as part of software engineering principles in week two. I still couldn't do basic Python, and had not figured out how to sum a column in a DataFrame.
https://t.co/uAbUFM9Xbh

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@emil_priver Learning Git through a project makes sense

Id like to see more project based learning in Uni, letting students explore possibilities

I dont see a lecture on something like Git practical, though

It wont stick

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The prof whizzed around advanced git concepts like branching and merge conflicts on the command line. I left this half day (on a Saturday) section feeling absolutely hopeless, dejected and confused.

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@infornomics @tcarpenter216 Cube to me specifically means multidimensional (MDIM) cube, but those are largely a thing of the past. We use tabular models, but the term "cube" is still commonly used to refer to them.

I don't think we will ever get our business users to use the term semantic models

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@Qualtrics why do unsubscribes using your platform take *10 business days* ? What technology possibly requires 10 business days to remove my email from a table

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@kearneymw Even better,

import pandas as cobol

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AI is the best thing to happen to employees tasked with writing performance reviews for themselves

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there is no such thing as "professional persistence"

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Really enjoying watching this evening of batting practice at Wrigley

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Spotify AI is like "I bet you've never heard this Three Days Grace song"

AI, I listened to Three Days Grace when you were just a floppy disc

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Can we please kill mobile menus? The last thing I want to do at a restaurant is immediately be on my phone

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@vkullu @dbasch This is where Bing AI shines, it searches the internet and provides sources. It's so much better for research than chat GPT

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Prompt engineering is a skillset and mindset that we should all learn to become more efficient at our jobs. But prompt engineering in isolation doesn't sound like it will be an effective hiring strategy.

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This tweet might not age well... but I do not buy into the concept that "prompt engineer" is a role that companies will hire for.

Generative AI's super power is combining an individual's domain knowledge and industry expertise with it's superhuman computational abilities.

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Hiring a generalist "prompt engineer" feels silly as a prompt engineer would miss this domain knowledge or industry expertise to know when Generative AI is making a mistake.