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Shadi Balandeh

Shadi Balandeh

When Benchmarks Are Not Reliable for Model Selection

We love using benchmarks to select the best model.

Oct 23

Oct 23

Shadi Balandeh

Feature Interaction in Medical Science (and beyond)

In data science, we often focus on building models that can predict outcomes based on individual features or variables, such as age…

Oct 16

Oct 16

Shadi Balandeh

Debunking the Power Pose: Why Scientific Rigor Matters

The video has more than 25 million views on YouTube, and we still hear about it from self-help gurus years later.

Oct 9

Debunking the Power Pose: Why Scientific Rigor Matters

Oct 9

Shadi Balandeh

Your model predicts well, but is it the whole story? The weather app dilemma

Your weather app may often correctly predict when it will rain, but it consistently reports only a 55% chance of rain.

Oct 4

Oct 4

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A result can be statistically significant but still have little to no practical relevance

There, I said it!

Jul 2

A result can be statistically significant but still have little to no practical relevance

Jul 2

Shadi Balandeh

A caveat about K-means clustering and many other machine learning models: Stochasticity

Your amazing data scientist has performed K-means clustering to segment customers, and the clusters made sense and you could label them…

Jun 25

A caveat about K-means clustering and many other machine learning models: Stochasticity

Jun 25

Shadi Balandeh

“Is your AI model fair?” There are 10 ways to answer that.

Many people don’t know this, but there are at least 10 ways to answer the question:

Jun 20

“Is your AI model fair?” There are 10 ways to answer that.

Jun 20

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Is scalability a data scientist’s problem or an engineering problem?

Should data scientists worry about how their solutions scale, or is it an engineering problem to solve?

Jun 11

Jun 11

Shadi Balandeh

Common Metrics to Evaluate a Model’s Fairness

Yup! They made the model technically “fair” by making it less accurate equally across all groups!

May 28

Common Metrics to Evaluate a Model’s Fairness

May 28

Shadi Balandeh

AS3DM or Agile Scientific Data-Driven Decision Making for the win! but what is it?

Only 32 percent of business executives say they create measurable value from data, and just 27 percent report that their data and analytics…

May 16

AS3DM or Agile Scientific Data-Driven Decision Making for the win! but what is it?

May 16

Shadi Balandeh

Shadi Balandeh

AI and Data Science Manager| AI & Data Literacy Educator| Scientific Data-Driven Decision Making Advocate| Mom

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