Chapter 2 Eight unanswered questions about the coronavirus Kaiser Fung discusses eight unanswered questions about the coronavirus.
Cause-effect In times of paranoia, seek out data and stick to facts Kaiser Fung (Principal Analytics Prep, Numbersense) urges people to stick to the facts as they assess the coronavirus public-health situation.
Algorithms What's wrong with this data? Kaiser Fung (Numbersense) invites readers to help decide whether the data are fake, using a Yelp account as an example.
Bias Apparently Hollywood does not recycle action-movie plots. The data said so, so it must be right It pains me to think how many people have used these keywords to build models.
Analytics-business interaction Data sleaze: Uber and beyond There has been a barrage of negative publicity related to Uber recently.