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The mistake of being data-driven #datadriven #metabase

Name: The mistake of being data-driven #datadriven #metabase
Uploaded: 2024-11-18T11:07:32+00:00
Duration: 30 s
Channel: Richie Cotton
Description: The term "data-driven" is usually a red flag. Real practitioners like ML researchers and operations teams don't use it. When someone calls themselves…

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The term "data-driven" is usually a red flag. Real practitioners like ML researchers and operations teams don't use it. When someone calls themselves data-driven, they often lack concrete methodology and are using data as a vague placeholder for actual work.

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Every time I hear someone say they're data driven, I kind of assume they don't know what they're doing. Ouch. Very few people that I know who are like data practitioners, ML researchers, like good operations. People like data driven is just one of those cringy words that is really the symbol that you don't have proper nouns for what you're doing, that you are treating data as this magical thing, and that you're arguing the space of magic as opposed to concrete, tangible things.