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Good data should be used to guide our understanding and actions in projects, pandemics, and life.
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January 1, 2022 Bruce Benson
Metrics
In any emergency or simply a chaotic situation like the typical software intensive project, I always looked to find data that helped me anchor my understanding of the situation.
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January 1, 2021 Bruce Benson
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What had worked for us? Velocity, or better stated, the methodology behind velocity, the average. It always drove people crazy that I'd use averages on my projects.
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September 28, 2018 Bruce Benson
Metrics
I've found that "having the data" is about half the effort. The other half is not how to make it compelling. The data was always compelling in my experience because it generally showed that we were making poor decisions. That rarely went over well.
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August 11, 2018 Bruce Benson
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Modern ethos is that all data is valuable, should be stored forever, and that machine learning will one day magically find the value of it.
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January 22, 2018 Bruce Benson
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There is a growing recognition that many important research findings based on statistical evidence are not reproducible.
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October 9, 2017 Bruce Benson
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This is not to say Musk will realize his most ambitious goals: landing on Mars, electrifying much of the world’s transportation fleet, and accelerating the transition from a fossil-fuel to a carbon-free economy. But each is closer than most thought possible in such a short...
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August 4, 2017 Bruce Benson
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Problems stemming from such errors can be very costly and have contributed to a wider concern about the reproducibility of research findings, most notably in medical research.
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July 20, 2017 Bruce Benson
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Harvey’s term for torturing the data until it confesses is “p-hacking,” a reference to the p-value, a measure of statistical significance. P-hacking is also known as overfitting, data-mining—or data-snooping, the coinage of Andrew Lo, director of MIT’s Laboratory of Financial Engineering. Says Lo: “The more...
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June 17, 2017 Bruce Benson
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I'll take the credit, but it was simply the magic of finally giving people the information and insight they needed to then get their jobs done.
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April 13, 2017 Bruce Benson
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Threats of federal intervention aside, it will be difficult to fix the problem of high murder rates without first addressing clearance rates. So it’s fortuitous, perhaps, that we are living in an age in which the analysis of data is supposed to help us decipher,...
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April 6, 2017 Bruce Benson
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When it comes to economic data, it can be difficult to separate what people believe to be true from what they want to be true.
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March 8, 2017 Bruce Benson
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In the same way that dark matter is an unseen but very large part of the cosmos , dark data represents the unseen but very large part of the data that most corporations collect and store.
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February 23, 2017 Bruce Benson
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This is the message that American University history professor Allan Lichtman has been screaming at the world since 1981: It’s not that the polling system itself is broken — instead, polls behave exactly as they’re designed. The problem is they aren’t designed to predict the...
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December 29, 2016 Bruce Benson
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As you’ve probably heard, while Hillary Clinton won the majority of the popular vote, Donald Trump was awarded more than 270 votes in the Electoral College. Many, particularly on social media, were incredulous, partly at the candidates but also at the pollsters — in particular,...
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December 15, 2016 Bruce Benson
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