“Three Subtle Examples of Data Leakage” by abstractapplic
Oct 03, 2024•8 min
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Episode description
This is a description of my work on some data science projects, lightly obfuscated and fictionalized to protect the confidentiality of the organizations I handled them for (and also to make it flow better). I focus on the high-level epistemic/mathematical issues, and the lived experience of working on intellectual problems, but gloss over the timelines and implementation details.
The Upper Bound
One time, I was working for a company which wanted to win some first-place sealed-bid auctions in a market they were thinking of joining, and asked me to model the price-to-beat in those auctions. There was a twist: they were aiming for the low end of the market, and didn't care about lots being sold for more than $1000.
"Okay," I told them. "I'll filter out everything with a price above $1000 before building any models or calculating any performance metrics!"
They approved of this, and told me [...]
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Outline:
(00:27) The Upper Bound
(02:58) The Time-Travelling Convention
(05:56) The Tobit Problem
(06:30) My Takeaways
The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.
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First published:
October 1st, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rzyHbLZHuqHq6KM65/three-subtle-examples-of-data-leakage
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
The Upper Bound
One time, I was working for a company which wanted to win some first-place sealed-bid auctions in a market they were thinking of joining, and asked me to model the price-to-beat in those auctions. There was a twist: they were aiming for the low end of the market, and didn't care about lots being sold for more than $1000.
"Okay," I told them. "I'll filter out everything with a price above $1000 before building any models or calculating any performance metrics!"
They approved of this, and told me [...]
---
Outline:
(00:27) The Upper Bound
(02:58) The Time-Travelling Convention
(05:56) The Tobit Problem
(06:30) My Takeaways
The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.
---
First published:
October 1st, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rzyHbLZHuqHq6KM65/three-subtle-examples-of-data-leakage
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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