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Daniela Witten
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dorothy gilford endowed chair and prof of stat/biostat @uw. all views my own.
Seattle, WA
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    Daniela Witten
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    Aug 5, 2021
    Finally --- the 2nd edition of ISLR is out!!!!🥳🎉🪅🍾 Well, sort of. 🙄It's "published", but due to shortages in the global paper supply, hard copies won't be available for a bit longer 😢😭🤦‍♀️ You can pre-order a hard copy from Springer/Amazon, & **download the pdf today**! 1/
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    Daniela Witten
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    Oct 15, 2022
    When I tell a tech bro that I am a professor of statistics, they often immediately inform me that I am a teacher professor, not a researcher professor. I say no, I am a professor professor, I do research and teach, but mostly research. Then they tell me- oh but I’m an UNDERGRAD
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    Daniela Witten
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    Oct 3, 2020
    FOUR CARDINAL RULES OF STATISTICS 📈📊📉 A thread 1/🧵
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    Daniela Witten
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    Sep 29, 2022
    hey babe, are you ok? someone with an MBA just referred to logistic regression as "machine learning" and you stayed calm
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    Daniela Witten
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    Jan 23, 2021
    This is everything
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    Daniela Witten
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    Sep 9, 2022
    Academia is funny because it's like we put a whole bunch of narcissists who are used to being #1 at everything into a room together, lock the door, throw away the key, and then say oH mY GoD i cAN't bELieVe ThIS iS How iT TUrnEd ouT
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    Daniela Witten
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    Nov 19, 2020
    Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Literally not one person: @NatureComms: What’s holding back women in science is women in science
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    Daniela Witten
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    Dec 16, 2019
    Each PhD admissions season, the number of emails I get from aspiring PhD students that mention my physical appearance is not zero.... and I guess I’m not really sure what to say about this other than that it really seems like it should be zero.
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    Daniela Witten
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    Oct 15, 2022
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    professor, but not like the ones they had in undergrad, who taught grad students too. Sometimes I try to keep explaining to them, but sometimes I stop because I don’t want to explode their brains 🤯 Men- why are you like this!!
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    Daniela Witten
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    Aug 9, 2020
    The Bias-Variance Trade-Off & "DOUBLE DESCENT" 🧵 Remember the bias-variance trade-off? It says that models perform well for an "intermediate level of flexibility". You've seen the picture of the U-shape test error curve. We try to hit the "sweet spot" of flexibility. 1/🧵
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    Daniela Witten
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    Sep 3, 2020
    It actually makes sense that the physicists didn’t know about college parties
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    Daniela Witten
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    Sep 26, 2019
    "When we raise money it’s AI, when we hire it's machine learning, and when we do the work it's logistic regression." (I'm not sure who came up with this but it's a gem 💎)
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    Daniela Witten
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    Oct 15, 2022
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    This happened most recently three days ago, at a kiddo social event, where someone told me that MIT (where he went to school) is run really differently from UW because at MIT people only get the title “professor” if they do research
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    Daniela Witten
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    Jun 18, 2020
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    Just kidding!! It's super bad. ☹️ /end