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Expanding the Pie - A Nike Story
When I was in college, I discovered NikeID. Now rebranded to be Nike By You, it's a customization service that allows you to select from...
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The Blockchain Hype Cycle
Blockchain is a system design that de-centralizes control over data. In practice, the data is often a "ledger," or a chronological list...
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Speeding Tickets, Insurance Points, and Standards for Strategic Information
Last week, I got my first speeding ticket. I was descending altitude (a rare occurrence for a born-and-raised Texan) and lost track of my...
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A Look Back
About a year ago, I became a student at the MIT Sloan School of Management. After graduating a few days ago, I’ve had a little time to...
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What I’m Up To - Finishing Grad School
My blog is many things. Regular is not one of them. It’s been almost three months since I’ve posted, and that’s because I’ve had a lot...
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Jumping to Conclusions, the Fundamental Attribution Error, and Thinking, Fast and Slow
If you’ve recently heard my elevator pitch, you’ll know I enjoy thinking about decisions. In the recent past, that’s been from the...
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Keeping Our Eye on AI: an Ethical Proposition
Very few people in the world are in the business of ethics. That is, ethics is often an afterthought, not the primary concern of many...
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Not-at-all then All-at-once: The Coronavirus Roundabout
In an earlier post, I used roundabouts as a metaphor for navigating interesting and unique circumstances. I won’t go too deep (that’s...
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Red Team - Was Blockbuster Wrong?
A red team is a group that helps organizations to improve themselves by providing opposition to the point of view of the organization...
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The Data Science Workforce - Steady State
In the digital age, data has become king. In every industry, statistical learning methods have begun to take hold as important aspects of...
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Decision Analysis, Dynamic Programming, and the Future of Healthcare
In the past, I wrote about how machine learning, on its own, applies to a very common problem structure: input data is fed into a model,...
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Ten-Minute Talks - Roundabouts and Reality
A roundabout, according to Wikipedia, is a “type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one...
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Tradeoffs - So What?
If you’ve been a regular follower of my blog, you’ve probably read some posts about tradeoffs. And while some readers might have picked...
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Data Science - Function and Form
Since my last post about data science, I’ve had more exposure to the field and time to formulate some thoughts about it. As I’ve seen...
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Tradeoffs: Sustainability
Sustainability is a hot topic. When we hear the word, we immediately think about environmental science and preservation. While this...
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Ten-Minute Talks: Pickup Basketball and Data Science
So I've had a month here at MIT Sloan's Business Analytics program. I have a lot of takeaways, but in this post I'm just going to discuss...
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Ten-Minute Talks: Art and Science
"All models are wrong, but some are useful.” Attributed to George Box, it's a common sentence in my line of study, oft repeated at...
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Tradeoffs - Convenience vs Control
I can’t drive a stick-shift car. Now, it’s not like it would be physically impossible for me to get the car in drive. I’ve just never...
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What I'm Up To - Grad School
In the last few weeks, I’ve met a lot of people. As a recent college graduate tends to do, I’ve fielded questions about the next steps in...
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What I'm Up To: Deaf Camp
This week, I’ve been working as a maintenance volunteer at Deaf Camp in Esopus, NY. I was woefully underprepared for the job; where my...
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