Our Future Data Challenge

Data Science Weekend roadshow event

Transcript

1. Our Future Data Challenge: “Can we have better data?”
2. 2016 : data science renaissance (cause, you know, we start producing arts)
3. https://ciesin.columbia.edu/data/hrsl It even starts saving the world.
4. then November 8th happened.
5. The polls missed Donald Trump’s election. Individual polls missed, at the state level and nationally. So did aggregated polls. So did poll-based forecasts such as ours. And so did exit polls. FiveThirtyEight
6. For every data point, there is an actual person. Sampling error Coverage error Measurement error Non-response error Tale as old as time.
7. The appeal override the cautions. “They're not predicting the future. What they're actually predicting is where the next recorded police observations are going to occur.”
8. Our Future Data Challenge to not only ask for better data, but also to refine questions, acknowledge biases, communicate results
9. #MakeDataWorks