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intro: attempt at laying out my little "three types of questions" structure... #3

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nickeubank commented 2 years ago

No idea if it works... the first time I tried to use it in teaching it went OK, the last time I tried teaching causal inference first and then introducing it and it did not go great. It feels meaningful to me, but... Curious what you think when you have a chance.

nickeubank commented 2 years ago

https://ds4humans.com/00_introduction.html

joshclinton commented 2 years ago

I’ll take a look. Currently in the Uk - suffered thru hottest day and night ever!

I had an alternative frame - instead of just framing around questions, framing around need to quantify uncertainty? And awareness of potential errors? Humans are falluable after all and most data science and books seem to not really push this

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nickeubank commented 2 years ago

No worries! This repo is just for starting to gather things in a way that accumulates towards a book rather than just a bunch of e-mails.

I think uncertainty is a really important theme to have throughout the book, but I'm not sure that it's quite what draws most people to data science—I think what most people come to data science for is its promise to solve problems, and so I think we want to lean on that empowerment angle to draw people in.

But now that I say that, maybe I need to emphasize the solving problems part before the types of questions. Here's how I do that in the first chapter of the "answering questions" section, but maybe I need more of that in the intro: https://ds4humans.com/20_questions/00_from_problems_to_questions.html