Making Data Useful

What is simulation?

Introducing a powerful technique for working with data

Cassie Kozyrkov
3 min readJun 26, 2023

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In data science, it’s often a great idea to do a dress rehearsal that involves making a fake-but-plausible dataset before collecting, buying, or analyzing any real world data. We call this simulation.

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Cassie Kozyrkov

Chief Decision Scientist, Google. ❤️ Stats, ML/AI, data, puns, art, theatre, decision science. All views are my own. twitter.com/quaesita