Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Causality – an Introduction
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Causality – Hey, We Have Machine Learning, So Why Even Bother?
A brief history of causality
Why causality? Ask babies!
Interacting with the world
Confounding – relationships that are not real
How not to lose money… and human lives
A marketer’s dilemma
Let’s play doctor!
Associations in the wild
Wrapping it up
References
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Judea Pearl and the Ladder of Causation
From associations to logic and imagination – the Ladder of Causation
Associations
Let’s practice!
What are interventions?
Changing the world
Correlation and causation
What are counterfactuals?
Let’s get weird (but formal)!
The fundamental problem of causal inference
Computing counterfactuals ...
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