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Just had a meeting with some students looking to outsource some dataset validation work. I had them time themselves for a couple hours doing it themselves, and
by sdenton4 6y ago
Just had a meeting with some students looking to outsource some dataset validation work. I had them time themselves for a couple hours doing it themselves, and we found that seeing aside am hour a day for a couple weeks will get them through everything... And they'll end up with higher quality data than they'll get from outsourced validation, with a better idea of the pitfalls of the dataset.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoThose students are in the wrong career. You can't make good things from data without (metaphorically) getting your hands dirty.
- dan-robertson 6y agoOr maybe they have just learned something—these are students, not seasoned professionals.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoYeah definitely. To be fair, I was kinda harsh, but it's incredibly frustrating to see people ignore core parts of the DS workflow because it doesn't map neatly to cool technologies. Especially when that part is the base for pretty much everything you'll do with data.