A little bit about me:
I’m a data scientist and professor with an interest in how data science impacts people in their day to day lives. I teach an AI and Ethics class at the University of Louisville and a Public Policy class at the University of Kentucky.
This site is meant to be helpful for people interested in learning more about data science. It’s a mix of technical posts about how to do analysis and more reflective posts on how data science is impacting society. I hope you’ll take a look around and reach out with any thoughts or questions.
The Blog
Think before Adding More Variables to that Analysis
An introduction to thinking about causal models for data analysis. The purpose is to demonstrate that the popular approach of simply gathering as much data as you can and controlling for it via regression or other methods is not a good one, and is actively misleading in many cases. We should instead carefully think about plausible causal models using tools like diagrams (directed acyclic graphs, or DAGs) and then do data analysis in accordance with those models.
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Setting Up a Virtual Environment
How to set up Python.
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Introduction
