dworin

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by dworin 10y ago
It's very hard to find people with both deep domain knowledge and deep math/statistics knowledge, in the same way that it's often hard to find people with deep programming knowledge and deep business knowledge. We solve the l
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by dworin 10y ago
The best business practices to emulate come from successful in boring and fiercely competitive industries, where you can see if those practices are really making a difference. When a company has a single massively profitable product that&#
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Core Values for Data Science(medium.com)
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by dworin 10y ago
I think this is a fairly common pervasive, semi-conscious but unspoken feeling throughout many marketing and communications measurement organizations.
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by dworin 10y ago
>>> the change is mostly about moving this risk (and potential reward related to it). This is exactly right! And the theory behind it is actually one of the papers behind this year's economics Nobel Prize. Different billing m
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by dworin 10y ago
This echoes some of my recent frustrations with customer success organizations to a T. I'll also add in that many customer success organizations feel like the Post-Sell Upsell Sales Team rather than the Make My Customer Successful Tea
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by dworin 10y ago
In my experience "expertise in making sense of data" is only one piece of the puzzle, and often not even the most important one. Domain expertise is hugely important at making sense of data. Self-service allows domain experts to
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You Already Have the Best Technology for Feedback: A Conversation(medium.com)
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by dworin 10y ago
As a user more than an engineer, most of the apps I use have 'one feature,' but the one feature that's important to me is different than the one feature that's important to other people. My 'one feature' may a
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by dworin 10y ago
There's actually a lot of research about confidence (and an entire pop-psychology book on the subject). The basic finding is similar to what the article says: too much confidence is bad because it makes you miss things, but so is too l
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by dworin 10y ago
"2. Internal employees - Stack Overflow said this has been available internally for a bit, but when employees find out what others are making they are inclined to compare their own efforts/abilities vs others. It can lead to peopl
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by dworin 10y ago
>> Good HR means three things: a clear management structure, a way for people to talk about workplace issues and concerns, and pathways for people to evolve in their careers. I've seen a number of startups who think the only part
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by dworin 10y ago
I've said the same thing to leaders at multiple startups (some well known) and they all gave me a look like I was a neophyte who didn't understand the motivating power of ping pong tables.
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by dworin 10y ago
From the article: "If the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame wants to be taken seriously, they need to put their books out in the public. They need to fucking become transparent" Am I missing some deeper story? They have an 82 page form
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by dworin 11y ago
The missing part of the advice is that you need to hire the best _for your company_. But there isn't an objective definition of 'best.' People can be great at one job and not right for another, great in one company and not
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by dworin 11y ago
Michael Lewis had an article a few years ago where he described this effect using Shane Battier as the example - none of his stats were spectacular, but somehow his team played better when he was on the court. http://www.nytimes
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by dworin 11y ago
This is just a hypothesis, but maybe for viewability for ads? There's a big controversy among advertisers/publishers over the difference between "was my ad shown" and "was my ad seen." Clicking Read More at l
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by dworin 11y ago
This sounds more like having a distributor than having a landlord. Imagine you create a craft beer. You can't build a relationship with all of the bars, restaurants, nightclubs, gas stations, convenience stores, and grocery stores tha
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by dworin 11y ago
There are some other great explanations in this thread (survivor bias seems very plausible), but I'll throw out another based on my experience with other construction trades: economics. If you look at old buildings, you tend to notice
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by dworin 11y ago
>>> Wish I could tell all of this to my 14-year-old self. I often think this about any number of things, and then I realize there were probably a lot of people in my life who were telling them to me, and I just didn't want to
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by dworin 11y ago
I use my Surface Pro 3 on my lap a fair amount. It's not the best, but it's functional if I'm in a seat at the airport, or a hotel lobby, or on the couch. I've also realized that a lot of the work that I do in those si
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by dworin 11y ago
It's a Nespresso machine - it's not even that expensive. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/apr...
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by dworin 11y ago
I could see any of the large professional services firms or government/defense contractors being interested.
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by dworin 11y ago
From my experience with companies that sell consulting/technology to the government, 'blowing the whistle' is more likely to lead to people questioning how the government spent so much money on something so rudimentary, rathe
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by dworin 11y ago
A large number of my clients have been research companies and consulting firms, and one thing I've seen is that 'research based consulting' is a phrase that research companies frequently use to sell themselves as more than re
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by dworin 11y ago
In my experience, Data Science isn't replacing statistics, it's replacing Business Intelligence. And a lot of that is driven by PR and marketing departments that saw that business intelligence was boring and trapped them in the I
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by dworin 11y ago
I've seen a huge range in the people calling themselves data scientists. Some have very analytically intensive academic degrees, others just finished a data science boot camp, and there are a lot of people that used to be called &#x27
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by dworin 11y ago
The vision of self-driving cars using special roads has actually been around since the 50s. Here's a commercial GM put together about it (admittedly using different technology at the time): https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by dworin 11y ago
Making phones right now is really a game of supply chain mastery and scale. Nokia didn't have an particular advantage in either area, especially when it came to smart phones. If they started making android phones, it's more like
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by dworin 11y ago
I disagree. I'm not promising someone a job for life and they're not promising to work for me forever. Part of the value I offer them as an employee is what I can do for their career going forward. Sometimes that's a prest

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