While Model Trains

Read data blog posts.
Carefully handpicked.
Presented 3 at a time.

One year as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow

David Robinson

A story about the first year of working at Stack Overflow after transitioning from academia.

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A few reasons to be skeptical of machine learning

Julia Evans

"why, even though machine learning is really awesome and cool and you can do super powerful and interesting things with it – why you should still be skeptical"

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Open letter to journal editors: dynamite plots must die

Rafael Irizarry

A critique of dynamite plots and suggestions for better alternatives.

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