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10 Pitfalls in Data Science - LA Data Science M...

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  1. 10 Pitfalls in Data Science Szilárd Pafka, PhD Chief Scientist,

    Epoch LA Machine Learning Meetup Data Science Track Feb 2014

  2. About me

  3. Data Science

  4. (Some) Pitfalls • DS = IT project • DS isolated

    from business • Restricted access to data • Not enough EDA/cleaning • Data leakage • Overfitting • Optimizing wrong metric • Skip model validation • Too complex to deploy • Poor communication

  5. Contact [email removed from slideshare] www.linkedin.com/in/szilard