7 Ways to Perplex a Data Scientist

On the heels of a report showing the inefficacy of government-run cyber security, it's imperative to understand the limitations of your system and model. As that article shows, in addition to bureaucratic risk the government also needs to worry about gaming-the-bureaucracy risk! Government snafus aside, data science has enjoyed considerable success in the past few years. Despite this success, models can fail in surprising ways. Last year we saw how deep neural nets for image recognition fail on noisy data.