Any time series classification or regression forecasting involves the Y prediction at 't+n' given the X and Y information available till time T. Obviously no data scientist or statistician can deploy the system without back testing and validating the performance of model in history. Using the future actual information in training data which could be termed as "Look Ahead Bias" is probably the gravest mistake a data scientist can make. Even the sentence “we cannot make use future…
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A new paper entitled "Gaining Trust as well as Respect in Communicating Science Topics" published in the Proceedings of the…
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"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life." - Oscar Wilde
In Woody Allen's 1973 iconoclastic movie "Sleeper" a man (health food store owner) wakes up two hundred years in the future. For breakfast…
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Confirmation bias occurs when people actively search for and favor information or evidence that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses while ignoring or slighting adverse or mitigating evidence. It is a type of cognitive bias (pattern of deviation in judgment that occurs in…
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The easiest person in the world to fool is yourself. Data scientists sometimes fool themselves - in matters trivial and important. Thus, I strongly suggest that we acknowledge real or subconscious biases in ourselves, the data, the analysis and group think. It is prudent for data science teams to have…
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