While Model Trains

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

In Praise of Small Data

Evan Miller

Unless you are training a model with thousands of parameters, big data should not be seen as a source of value, but rather as a source of cost.

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The Four Jobs of the Data Scientist

Roger Peng

For each "Data Analytic Iteration," you need to embody the roles of a scientist, statistician, system engineer, and politician.

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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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