By: Stephen Chen For more from this writer, Stephen Chen, see his session, “The Perils of Prediction” at PAW Business, June 19, 2019, in Las Vegas, part of Mega-PAW. In an earlier article (“The Loss of Inference“) I referenced the misuse of non-independent variables in models utilizing auto-mpg dataset as a symptom of the mathematical / technological determinism that now pervades data science due to the focus on production which has denigrated critical evaluation. In this article, I hope to show how this shift to production vs. critical evaluation is not necessarily a virtue by looking at
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