Amy Yang
@ayanalytics
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Data scientist ♡ Statistician ♡ #oss #rstats Co-Organiser @RLadiesChicago ♡ writing code powered by old-fashioned drip-brewed #coffee
Chicago, IL
Joined September 2011
Excited to launch (and fund) Roam:
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Loan assumptions, which let a home buyer essentially take over a seller’s mortgage, are hard to find and hard to pull off.
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700-page PDF — #Algorithms for Decision-Making — download brilliant & comprehensive FREE eBook from MIT: https://t.co/TRP1USGDrF ————— #AI #MachineLearning #BigData #DataScience #DataScientists #Mathematics #Statistics #DecisionScience #DataLeadership #AnalyticsStrategy
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'To hear it told is not equal to experience'-Japaness proverb. So true in every stage of my life in retro, and I'm glad I tried out the paths and lived the experience bad or good on my own even if you told me not to.
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We are happy to announce that posit::conf(2023) has an updated location and date! Posit will host our upcoming annual conference at the Hyatt Regency Chicago from Sunday, September 17 - Wednesday, September 20, 2023. We will share more details in February!
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I’m looking for a senior data science position! 👩🔬 I’ve built and run A/B testing platforms 💻 I am experienced in modeling in R & Python 📚 I have coauthored a book on DS careers ( https://t.co/qEcHUiiv2O) Remote or Hybrid (SLC based). Please reach out if you want to chat!
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Stitch Fix is using something called eigenvector decomposition, a concept from quantum mechanics, to tease apart the overlapping “notes” in an individual’s style. Using physics, the team can better understand the complexities of the clients’ style minds.
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You know who knows machine learning? People who look at the stars all day. And when it comes to what constellations of clothes and shows and music you will like, some of the same principles apply.
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when you’re a leader in a software company, you get a band of autists that barely listen to you and take 4 months per year of mental health leave. when you’re a leader in something like construction you get an army of strong guys who call you boss and might beat up your enemies
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idea: a gameshow called Imposter Syndrome where you take 10 senior developers and tell them that one of them is actually just a sales guy who's been taught to say DevOps buzzwords. to win, they have to figure out who the fake dev is. the trick: there is no sales guy
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It's the time of year I need to spend my learning budget. Any recommendation for books on optimization, causal inference, pricing model and system design? #econ #optimization #causalinference #RStats #Finance
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Aren't we all on the spectrum of some sort of skewed distribution? Play nice with your fellow #stat or #DataScience colleagues. 🤓🤗
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How is the engineer behind integration test email #1 doing now? I'm genuinely caring
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How are sample size calculated for #quasiexperiment? Let's say I want to run a #diffindiff analysis and want to collect some data first. How should I power the study and calculate sample size? What about other causal inference models? Do you have tools to share #rstats
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One of my AP Statistics students just emailed this to me. You’re welcome world; my job here is done.
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here's a hero shot worthy of a hero language #rstats (the new #rayrender sobol sampler gives excellent renders in a fraction of the time—it's a gamechanging improvement)
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At the heart of frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of wish with an unyielding reality.
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