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Do you have a reference for this? Is part of the rumor that not everyone in the organization knew this was happening?
by dsizzle 5y ago
Do you have a reference for this? Is part of the rumor that not everyone in the organization knew this was happening?
- rossdavidh 5y agoNo, the rumor was just that they put their thumb on the scale. https://ryxcommar.com/2021/11/06/zillow-prophet-time-series-and-prices/ https://ryxcommar.com/2021/11/06/zillow-prophet-time-series-... "Speaking of middle managers, word on the street is that Zillow Offers put their thumb on the scale of the algorithm to make it engage in more aggressive trades. Manually adjusting an algorithm isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but you need to do it for the right reasons. And clearly that didn’t end up working out..." That not everyone in the organization knew that, is just me speculating.
- dsizzle 5y agoAh, I was trying to find that article earlier today. (I searched "Sean Spicer data science Twitter" to no avail, ha.) Actually that piece also hints at an uneven understanding of these issues across the organization: > In one tweet, I semi-joked that what happened was lower and mid level employees convinced upper management that the algorithm was 99% accurate by hiding the caveats of what “99% accuracy” means.