Tag: work

  • Dispute for the sake of Heaven, or why it's OK to have a loud argument with your co-worker

    Any dispute that is for the sake of Heaven is destined to endure; one that is not for the sake of Heaven is not destined to endure

    Chapters of the Fathers 5:27

    February 6, 2020 - 3 minute read -
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  • Gender salary gap in the Israeli high-tech

    A large and popular Israeli Facebook group, “The High-Tech Troubles,” has recently surveyed its participants. The responders provided personal, demographic, and professional information. The group owners have published the aggregated results of that survey. In this post, I analyze a particular aspect of these findings, namely, how the responders’ gender and experience affect their salary. It is worth noting that this survey is by no means a representative one. It’s most noticeable but not the only problem is the participation bias. Another problem is the fact that the result tables do not contain any information about the number of responders in any group. Without this information, it is impossible to compute confidence intervals of any findings. Despite these problems, the results are interesting and worth noting.

    February 1, 2018 - 3 minute read -
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  • How to be a better teacher?

    If you know me in person or follow my blog, you know that I have a keen interest in teaching. Indeed, besides being a full-time data scientist at Automattic, I teach data visualization anywhere I can. Since I started teaching, I became much better in communication, which is one of the required skills of a good data scientist.
    In my constant strive for improving what I do, I joined the Data Carpentry instructor training. Recently, I got my certification as a data carpentry instructor.

    October 12, 2017 - 1 minute read -
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