Practical Problem Solving With Data

Pete Skomoroch@peteskomoroch

Onlab Data ConferenceJune 22, 2012

To solve hard problems:

Think like a street fighter

Analyze

Improvise

Anticipate

Adapt

How does this apply to startups?

Analyze

The Men Who Stare at Charts

Look at your data

Averages Suck

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Build a Viewer App

Algorithmic Intuition

Improvise

Extract

Anticipate

Use Your Viewer App

Adapt

Look at your errors

• Sanity check row counts

• Track errors over time

• Find patterns in the error data

• Add missing features to models

• Replace models entirely

Analyze

Improvise

Anticipate

Adapt

Think like a street fighter

Pete Skomoroch@peteskomoroch

Onlab Data ConferenceJune 22, 2012