Data For Science Sunday Briefing

Dear friends, Welcome to the March 15 edition of the Sunday Briefing. This week we take advantage of the increased world wide attention on the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and take a deep look at how we might soon be looking at 1 Million Infected Americans, how we can strengthen the use of models during epidemics, and at The effect of travel restrictions. In addition, we also take another look at Simpson's Paradox, Data Trees, a new dataset on grocery purchases in London, analyze how to uncover patterns in high dimensional time series, have an overview of Causal Interpretability for ML and Deep Reinforcement Learning For Trading. Finally, in our video of the week, the good folks over at 3Blue1Brown give us an excellent overview of Exponential growth and epidemics to help us to better interpret the numbers we see in the news. Data shows that the best way for a newsletter to grow is by word of mouth, so if you think one of your friends or colleagues would enjoy this newsletter, just go ahead and forward this email to them and help us spread the word!