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Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering
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Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering

by Tim Menzies, Laurie Williams, Thomas Zimmermann
July 2016
Beginner to intermediate
408 pages
10h 58m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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The white-shirt effect

Learning from failed expectations

L. Prechelt    Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

No matter how enthusiastic you are about your youngest data-scientific idea: Before you invest a lot of effort into data collection and/or analysis, consider the possibility that the data may show something other than you expect – or even nothing at all. Always hypothesize a causational model of what is going on, define fallback positions in case that model happens to be wrong, and make your investments in small steps, validating your expectations after each of them. This chapter explains those rules by a negative example in an entertaining way.

Keywords

DCDIM; Causation mechanism; Causation model; Partial checks; Face ...

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