Tips for Shipping Data Products Fast

Re:Tips for Shipping Data Products Fast by scribu on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:29AM (#26342066)

Perhaps iterating on the ML model allowed you to learn about the business domain faster or more systematically.

When you're learning something new, you don't even know what questions to ask (unknown unknowns). And the domain experts don't know what to tell you first (curse of knowledge).

If, on the other hand, you present a model to a domain expert, they can start to poke it and tell you what it got wrong.

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Re:Tips for Shipping Data Products Fast by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @10:51AM (#26343910)

I dunno, ML/statistical models have really, really, really, really slow iterations times. Matrix multiplication is O(N^3) and you'll need to do that a lot.

EDA (exploratory data analysis) is the best way to learn about the business domain and has the advantage of being much, much, much faster than even the fastest ML approach.

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