2025 1

Rip Data Scientists

Slides for my DataHack Summit talk (controversially) titled RIP Data Scientists are at https://talks.s-anand.net/2025-08-21-rip-data-scientists/ Summary: as data scientists we explore, clean, model, explain, deploy, and anonymize datasets. I live-vibe-coded each step with DGCA data in 35 minutes using ChatGPT. Of course, it’s the tasks that are dying, not the role. Data scientists will leverage AI, differentiate on other skills, and move on. But the highlight was an audience comment: “I’m no data scientist. I’m a domain person. I’ll tell you all this: If you don’t follow these practices, you won’t have a job with me!” ...

2006 1

Pageviews are obsolete

Ev of Blogger argues that pageviews are obsolete. Number of unique visitors and time spent on a site are better measures.

2000 2

I win page hits in October

I win the bet. ~sanand strikes 14340 to 2931 versus ~mkalidas. Must admit that some people disagree with the majority, though.

Page hits in October

I had a bet with Kalidas about which of our pages would get more web hits in October. Of course, October isn’t over yet, but with 12,740 on mine against 2,234, I think I have a decent chance of a pizza.