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Models are illuminating and wrong is a personal blog at peadarcoyle.wordpress.com about data, ai and career. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Avoiding being a ‘trophy’ data scientist – Models are illuminating and wrong”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
5HN people?
2015–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2017

Data & Machine Learning & Product

Most-linked posts?

  1. Avoiding being a ‘trophy’ data scientist – Models are illuminating and wrong
    3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-07-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Things I wish I knew earlier about Machine Learning as a story · 234 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Building Full-Stack Vertical Data Products as a story · 6 points

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  3. Submitted Avoiding being a trophy data scientist as a story · 2 points

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  4. Submitted Avoiding being a ‘trophy’ data scientist – Models are illuminating and wrong as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted On the trophy data scientist problem as a story · 2 points

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  6. Submitted Why Zalandos tech-radar sucks as a stack as a story · 1 points

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  7. Submitted One neat trick to improve data science projects as a story · 1 points

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  8. Submitted Avoiding being a trophy data scientist as a story · 1 points

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  9. Submitted Avoiding Being a Trophy Data Scientist as a story · 1 points

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