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No offense, but this is very very basic stuff (PhD in Statistics)...
by wingcommander 10y ago
No offense, but this is very very basic stuff (PhD in Statistics)...
- charisma123 10y agowingcommander, can you let us know, what you would have done differently to improve the accuracy?
- ProAm 10y agoI'm willing to bet most startups or businesses in general do not have a statistician on staff. Or even as a personal contact.
- instakill 10y agoyou must be fun at parties
- wingcommander 10y agoI didn't intend any disrespect. I just think the title was a bit sensationalist.
- dang 10y agoWhen you know more than someone else does about a topic, the best way to comment on that topic here is to share some of what you know. Then we all learn. Comments that are only dismissive, or are supercilious about knowing more than others, are deprecated here. It would be a good idea to read the following which describe what we're looking for on the site: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html Oh, and welcome to Hacker News! (I'm a moderator here.)
- geebee 10y agoI kind of think the basic-ness is the point here. The article is mainly about identifying the opportunity, finding and cleaning the data, making some choices about what to feed into the model, and applying results. Having worked in business-related mathematics (did an MS in industrial engineering/ops research), I have definitely noticed how critical the "non-technical" aspects are, and how much mileage you can get out of relatively basic stuff if you do those steps well (and how little mileage you get out of sophisticated stuff if you haven't).