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January 12, 2022

🎯 Three questions I ask myself when setting personal development goals

A colleague asked me how I set my goals. I never thought about it explicitly but wrote it down for them and figured I could share it here too. This is just something that works for me. So take it with a grain of salt🧂

I write down a goal and ask myself three questions:

  1. 💗 Do I get excited about my goal?
  2. 💡 Will I learn valuable things while trying to achieve the goal?
  3. 🙌 If I achieve the goal, can I share my success with others?
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📊 Three types of metrics for data science projects in professional organizations

If you're working on a data science project in a professional organization you'll need to show the value you contribute. That's where metrics come in.

But choosing a metric is hard. Because there's usually multiple factors at play. I've encountered that in my daily work as a data scientist.

Diagram of the three types of metrics

I've found it useful to organize metrics in three level framework. I learned about it in the book "Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments" (Kohavi, Tang, and Xu, 2020).

I'll explain the three types of metrics below.

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