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Thought this was interesting. Across 160 teams of researchers, just about all failed to make good life outcome predictions on things like GPA, evictions, layoffs, and others. Data followed 4.5k families across 15 years, with 13k features (varied over time). Haven't looked at it directly yet, but will be turning the docs and data inside out... In the meantime, authors claim this as showing the limits of ML. Oh, and it's published in PNAS, so you know there's some big publication energy there.
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/15/8398
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Databricks requires way too much prior knowledge.
You need to know database design, cloud, data science, ML, streaming & batch analytics. You need to know Python, pySpark, and Azure. You need to know data prep, data exploration, and data munging.
Then you need to understand business problems in a specific function in a specific industry, and how to translate a business problem into an actionable plan. On top of that, you need the soft skills for influence and change management.
Maybe there are meaningful Databricks implementations out there. But most of them seem like IT science projects that have no business impact.