Conference Video: (Leah) Aria Fredman, PhD - Using All(-ish) Data: Validating your Data Usage Decisions
This is Aria Fredman, PhD’s tech talk at the WiDS Puget Sound Conference 2020. Enjoy!
ABSTRACT:
This talk focuses on the space between exploratory data analysis and modeling, concentrating on validating decisions to add and/or delete data. Emphasizing casual inferencing in the absence of randomization, the talk will examine how and why this situation may lead to needing noisy data and matching methodologies, as well as some potential pitfalls to avoid.
Aria is a senior data scientist at Gideon Health, a startup in stealth mode, where she works at the intersection of product and UX to develop technology improving people's lives. Before joining Gideon, Aria worked as a data scientist at iSpot.tv, when she helped determine the efficacy of television advertisements. Aria completed her social (experimental) psychology doctoral dissertation on the retention and mental health of online gamers; she has years of experience in designing, implementing, and analyzing experiments, and she has utilized both statistical and data science methodologies to deliver insights.