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Matching for Causes without Experiments

Sometimes we have an experiment that we can run to figure out if something is working: give one person a pill and give another a placebo, one person gets a blue button and another gets a green one, one town gets a new health clinic and another doesn’t. Plenty of…

Causal Inference

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Matching for  Causes without Experiments
Matching for  Causes without Experiments
Causal Inference

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Aug 29

Towards Communality

Why should we care about making communality possible? Not Big D Democracy (though that can certainly be supported by communality), not Commune Living or Communism, or really any kind of 'ism’, though all of those can be supported by communality. Just plain old little ‘c’ communities that exist, support, inform…

Design Process

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Design Process

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Apr 23

Senior Interpretability Enforcement Officer

A little while back I posted a little challenge on LinkedIn: Tell me about an individual, discrete, and actionable policy that would prevent harms by an AI. Please include the following What the policy would prevent with some level of specificity as to the who, how, and why Some actionable concept…

Ai Safety

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Senior Interpretability Enforcement Officer
Senior Interpretability Enforcement Officer
Ai Safety

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Jan 18

Small Studies, Bayes, and Causation

I wrote a few articles last year that explored how we could look at how measuring what a redesign of a service caused. In a hypothetical customer service scenario, the hypothesis that a redesign might cause people to give the service a higher rating or to quit using it less…

Quantitative Research

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Small Studies, Bayes, and Causation
Small Studies, Bayes, and Causation
Quantitative Research

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·Updated Aug 3, 2022

What (else) does your design cause?

In the last article that I posted here I dug into what an experimental design to test the ease of use of a service design might look like. If you haven’t read that article, you definitely should read that article before reading this one because I’m going to skip a…

Service Design

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What (else) does your design cause?
What (else) does your design cause?
Service Design

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·Jun 8, 2022

What does your design cause?

What does your design cause which is undesirable or unintended or at odds with the design intent? How does one ask and answer these questions? — In these next few posts I’m going to propose some ways of answering these questions that build up in complexity and propose some ways of thinking about causality and modeling effects that are relevant for thinking about ways to capture what’s most important in a design.

UX Research

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What does your design cause?
What does your design cause?
UX Research

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·Updated Nov 4, 2021

How design needs data

Why I went to Data Science school to become a better designer. — I am oh so very close to the finish line of the Masters of Information in Data Science at UC Berkeley and in between battling CUDA ‘Out Of Memory’ errors and underperforming neural networks, I’ve been thinking a little bit about what brought me to this point. Throughout the program…

Data Science

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How design needs data
How design needs data
Data Science

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Mar 25, 2020

Strange words, now more than ever

Today, March 24th 2020, when I see a word more than eight or so letters long that begins with a ‘c’ I know immediately what it is without reading the rest of the letters. Until that word is Communism. Or cubanelle, conscientious, cabbalistic, cachinnate, or cutlassfish. …

Book Recommendations

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Strange words, now more than ever
Strange words, now more than ever
Book Recommendations

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Jan 5, 2020

Magical Thinking

Before a work trip I was instructed to take an anti-malarial drug. We were going to Nigeria for work and the previous team that had gone there to do research had all come back malarial. Not a big deal for people who’ve developed a resistance to it but as folks…

Mental Health

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Mental Health

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Jul 26, 2019

Daily life gets designed

This little essay is, like so many of the things that I post on Medium, a wooly ramble that doesn’t end with a pat conclusion. Apologies in advance. I love the term “life-hack”. It’s been around long enough now to have entered the lexicon in a meaningful way and it…

Design

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Daily life gets designed
Daily life gets designed
Design

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joshua noble

joshua noble

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prose && code @ thefactoryfactory.com or https://twitter.com/fctry2 My views are not my own as I am appallingly unoriginal.

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