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John Rauser keynote: "Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain" -- Strata + Hadoop 2014

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From the 2014 Strata Conference + Hadoop World in New York City.

There are two essential skills for the data scientist: engineering and statistics. A great many data scientists are very strong engineers but feel like impostors when it comes to statistics. In this talk John will argue that the ability to program a computer gives you special access to the deepest and most fundamental ideas in statistics. John’s goal is to convince the non-statistician engineers in the audience that the road to statistical fluency is much, much shorter than they think.

About John Rauser:
John has been extracting value from large datasets for over 20 years at hedge funds, small data-driven startups, Amazon, and now Pinterest. He has deep experience in machine learning, data visualization, on-line experimentation, website performance and real-time fault analysis. An empiricist at heart, “Just do the experiment!” is his favorite call to arms.

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Aug 18, 2020 · 4 points, 0 comments · submitted by tosh
Similar in spirit to John Rauser's 2014 Strata Conference + Hadoop World keynote "Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain" (https://youtu.be/5Dnw46eC-0o).
sitkack
I am very glad that he referenced it, that talk was amazing and needs to be duplicated/replicated/spread 10x over.
jrauser
:)
This is an excellent talk I attended a while ago that explains it very well from a programmer's perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dnw46eC-0o&list=PL055Epbe6d...
I have a talk in which I argue that if you can program, you have a huge advantage in learning statistics because you can simulate random processes and tinker with them to get an intuitive sense of the statistics involved.

At Data Driven NYC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfSM45ncAT8 Keynote at Strata+Hadoop World 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dnw46eC-0o

Oct 27, 2014 · 2 points, 0 comments · submitted by siddg
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