It’s really good in statistics, but you need to know enough statistics to know what to ask. Just today I needed to write a PyStan script for doing some MCMC and it’s helped me to write it, structure the data and understand the results of the experiment. Then, it confirmed my suspension that the chosen model was not very good for my data and tomorrow I’m trying with another probability distribution.
In my pass job I was a business intelligence analysist in an insurance company, and my boss came to me and told me to take my computer and go to some conference room. There was one of the managers of legal affairs and she ask me to do look up something on the database, pretty regular job that is usually a ticket but ok, so I did her queries when suddenly they went a direction they don’t normally go and asked me to join the table with the employees database and do a pivot table for employee and count of lines and there was this lady with like 95% of the count, the manager asked me to send her that table and told me that she already knew it was her, but needed the evidence to HR. One week later the lady was fired and I still feel uncomfortable about that. Later I read some essay about abstraction, and how upper you go on the corporate chain, people gradually stop being humans to be just numbers, but for me, that day, my work had a name and a direct consequence that I can’t abstract from.
I attacked my wife on the Game of Thrones board game while she was at 6 castles and I was at 4.