Practical Data Science
Last month I gave a talk at csv,conf on "Getting Credit for Invisible Work". The (amazing) csv,conf organizers just published a recording of the talk. (slides here). Give it a watch! It's only 20m long (including the Q&A). Invisible work is a concept I've been trying to pin down…
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My peers at Mozilla are running workshops on opportunity sizing. If you're unfamiliar, opportunity sizing is when you take some broad guesses at how im…
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I spent some time earlier this year orchestrating a massive experiment for Firefox. We launched a bunch of new features with Firefox 80 and we wanted t…
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Welcome to Practical Data Science by me, Ryan Harter. Principal Data Scientist @ Mozilla Sign up now so you don’t miss the first issue. In the meantime…
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Leading with Data - Cascading Metrics It's surprisingly hard to lead a company with data. There's a lot written about how to set good goals and how to …
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Dec 9, 2020CommentShare
Last week, one of my peers asked me to explain what I meant by "Data Intuition", and I realized I really didn't have a good definition. That's a proble…
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Oct 20, 2020CommentShare
A year or so ago, I read this article about how Wells Fargo ended up in such a mess. If you don't remember, Wells Fargo was opening accounts in their c…
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Every other week, I go through my todo list and decide where I should focus my attention. I review a list of prompts that help me choose important work…
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