New Data Is Like a Christmas Present*
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I’ve been a data scientist for more than twenty years. One thing that never gets old for me is the excitement of a new dataset. The first data I worked on after graduation was at FDA, reviewing clinical trials for a shingles drug. Trying to quantify the risk/benefit ratio required a deep dive into the patient data, spread out over sixty different tables. There have been many datasets since then. And new data still feels like a Christmas present waiting to be unwrapped…