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Five Cognitive Biases in Data Science (and How to Avoid Them)
Everyone is prey to cognitive biases that skew thinking, but data scientists must prevent them from spoiling their work.
Rahul Agarwal
Expert Columnist
Senior data scientist currently working with WalmartLabs.
April 9, 2020
Updated: May 19, 2020


“As data scientists, our job is to make sense of the facts. In carrying out this analysis, we have to make subjective decisions though. So even though we work with hard facts and data, there’s a strong interpretive component to data science.”