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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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We do two things at my company. First, we have company wide planning every quarter for people to align on priorities. That makes it easier to reject last minute requests that weren’t in the plan. The other thing which helps is moving to a sprint model for your team. One of the biggest problems is it costs other people nothing to ask for analytics help, but costs your team quite a bit to fulfill it. Telling people they’ll have to wait until the next sprint imposes a cost on them and makes them more intentional with their requests.
Our partners are great and bring us in early but we’re a growth stage tech company so things change quickly. We find ourselves thrown into the fire on urgent things so often that it’s hard to tackle strategic product analyses that can create more value in the long run.