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It's not really a question of the "correct" data. To evaluate whether an observation is anomalous, you typically define a threshold for what's considered not-normal, e.g. an observ…

Why not learn R? In the last year I've spent around 80% of my time working with R, coming from the last five years almost exclusively with Python, and there are some great reasons …

Not the person to whom you asked this question, but I'm also a user of TabNine. In my experience, the "recommendations" / autocompletions provided by the tool are usually very shor…

Comparing income (GDP) vs. assets/market cap isn't really a meaningful comparison, here, as they're fundamentally different things.

You might find this article insightful as to the utility of R-squared – "Is R-squared Useless?" https://data.library.virginia.edu/is-r-squared-useless/

You could likely learn what not to do, from them :)

I'm looking for books/articles/essays related to failure and the involved individual's learning from it.

I worked on a project that basically was a very simple rules engine, encoding a bunch of domain knowledge in a digestible dashboard format, which happened to use a few predictive m…

Yep. It may only take one or two false positives to lose a customer worth potentially orders of magnitude more than any particular item (depending on the price of the item, of cour…

Perhaps by forgetting to scan items stored on the bottom rack of your shopping cart.

Your time must sure be valuable, at roughly $192 an hour ;)

I have 500+ models predicting various things and a massive database of over 400m+ individuals and about 5,000 possible independent variables. Currently, my scoring process takes ab…