Can someone at @British_Airways DM me? I have 'booked' tickets on the BA site, had payment accepted (I see it pending on my card) but page returned a note indicating that while the payment was accepted the booking was not completed and I should contact BA without any other info.
Hello @AmericanAir I think your website might not give correct info for Porter Air codeshare flights. I wound up with a Basic Econ Ticket from AUS to YYZ? But pretty sure only Main, Main Extra, and Premium are offered. I couldn't find any example dates where a Basic is offered.
Amusing podcast where @ezraklein plays Larry Gopnik to Mark Epstein's Nachtner
open.spotify.com/episode/1YW…
Good fun at #measurecamptoronto talking about Privacy by design and how applying data minimization gets you both K-anonymization AND ability to efficiently construct Gramian matrices for OLS.
Pure bias reinforcing dopamine right there. @mgershoff summarizes #PrivacybyDesign at #measurecampto
Off to London for @MeasureCampLDN
We have a new batch of Conductrics INC Select whiskey from @MilamandGreene over here from Texas and alfajores direct from Buenos Aires as prizes and give aways.
For talks I will do something on Privacy Engineering and AB Testing.
tl;dl Privacy by design & customer first philosophy, if not two sides of the same coin, are consistent with each other.
Collecting customer data is akin to asking for something. Customer first means asking from customers only when its a GOOD FAITH attempt to enrich THEIR lives.
"Collect everything" is easy to say. It can even be rationalized. Think a little deeper, though, and the dangers of this mindset are pretty easy to surface. That's the topic of our latest episode with @mgershoff! analyticshour.io/2024/09/03/…
I know people and I still haven't been able to get a bottle from the Wildlife collection. Gotta up my click submit game.
@MilamandGreene
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Great. As an extension to her note about effects heterogeneity. I think it is more that contextual bandits/Targeting is unlikely to be valuable unless there is a theory why there should be heterogeneity. If you don't then just run a simple RCT or Epsilon-First bandit.
These recent slides from Susan Athey and Guido Imbens at NBER are a great recent review of the most valuable data science methods I'm aware of. They cover tons of ground with lots of pointers.
conference.nber.org/confer/2…









