by Dwayne Phillips This is a variation on the question, “What is the difference that makes a difference?” When trying to modify behavior, we must be able to answer the title’s question. The title of this post is a fundamental science question. You are telling me that factor A is important here. Okay, it seems […]
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What is Different in this Situation?
November 15th, 2021 · No Comments
Tags: Adapting · Change · Data Science · Decide · Information · Science
The Essence of Data Science (attempt #2)
September 2nd, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips After a few more years, I think I understand the essence of Data Science. It isn’t that complicated. I wrote a post in November of 2020 attempting to describe the essence of data science. A few thoughts came to me recently. So here goes another attempt. A person has a large amount […]
Tags: Computing · Data Science · Questions · Science · Time
Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence
August 9th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We used to discuss this topic, but with different choices. Time passes. People discuss this on the Internet. Today’s question is “R or Python?” Good grief, two interpreted languages that run slow. But they are good for prototyping things, bringing in mammoth libraries, and writing useful things in ten lines of code. […]
Tags: Choose · Data Science · General Systems Thinking · Programming · Research · Thinking
Question Asking
June 21st, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The skill we should be teaching and learning and using more than any other today is question asking. We live in a world where all the questions have answers. We just have to find the answers. We have the facts, the data, the everything online in front of us. It is there. […]
Tags: Analysis · Data Science · Experiment · Learning · Questions
Data, Information, Money—a Simple Example
June 7th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Data is money. Information is money. Here is a precise, concrete, and specific example. Data is money. Information is money. Yeah, we hear that all the time. Really? What are you trying to sell me? A few years ago (dates and names withheld to protect the guilty) I worked in a job […]
Tags: Data Science · Information · Management · Money
Why We Can’t Hire Enough Data Scientists
April 15th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Another variation of Lewis Carroll’s “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” This time we apply it to hiring data scientists. “We can’t hire enough data scientists.” At least I read that almost everyday out there on the Internet. Well, why can’t we? Here are […]
Tags: Agreement · Certification · Data Science · Jobs · Mathematics · Thinking · Word
A Fundamental Problem with Machine Learning
April 5th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Despite all the promise and all the already fulfilled promise, there is a fundamental problem with machine learning. Machine learning is that part of artificial intelligence that time and technology favors. We have the stuff needed to make machine learning work right now. Machine learning “works” because you feed in a million […]
Tags: Data Science · Ethics · General Systems Thinking · Neural Network · Pattern Classification · Systems · Technology
The Essence of Data Science
November 12th, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips After a few years, I think I understand the essence of Data Science. It isn’t that complicated. I have been working in, around, above, below, to the side, and every which way but loose of Data Science for the past few years. Perhaps I have learned what Data Science is. There are […]
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Big(ger) Data
July 30th, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Some people work on big data. The rest of us find value by working on data that is bigger than we can understand without some hand-crafted tools. For about two years I worked on a BIG DATA project. Well, that is how it was touted. BIG DATA was a cool name that […]
Tags: Analysis · Data Science · Problems · Programming · Science
Logarithms and Other Old but New Concepts
February 20th, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Logarithms help represent large and complex items with smaller and simpler concepts. We forget this at our peril. I used a slide rule in years gone past. It functions on logarithms. These take large numbers and represent them with small numbers. It really is a remarkable concept. The logarithm concept has been […]
Tags: Concepts · Data Science · Estimation · General Systems Thinking