Leo Breiman (3)

• Learning from 3 big Data Science career mistakes - Feb 25, 2020.
  
  Thinking of data science as merely a technical profession, like programming, may take you away from your goals. We explain big mistakes to avoid, including not understanding the 2 cultures of statistics, and not understanding the shift to industrial focus.

  Advice, Career, Data Science, Industry, Leo Breiman, Mistakes, Robert Tibshirani, Social Media, Statistical Learning, Trevor Hastie

• Machine Learning Classic: Parsimonious Binary Classification Trees - Jun 14, 2016.
  
  Get your hands on a classic technical report outlining a three-step method of construction binary decision trees for multiple classification problems.

  Decision Trees, Leo Breiman, Machine Learning, Statistics

• Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures, by Leo Breiman - Nov 28, 2013.
  
  There are two cultures in the use of statistical modeling to reach conclusions from data. One assumes that the data are generated by a given stochastic data model. The other uses algorithmic models and treats the data mechanism as unknown - read the full paper.

  Leo Breiman, Salford Systems, Statistics