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Lecture 32

Guest Lecture – DJ Patil

DATA 8

Spring 2023

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Announcements

  • Homework 10 due Wednesday, April 12th
  • Lab 9 & Project 2 due Friday, April 14th

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Weekly Goals

  • Today
    • Guest Lecture – DJ Patil
  • Wednesday
    • Least squares: finding the "best" line for a dataset
    • Residuals: analyzing mistakes and errors
  • Friday
    • Regression inference
    • Uncertainty in the slope & intercept

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Introducing DJ Patil

  • Investor, entrepreneur, scientist, and public policy expert
    • Founder and Board Member at Devoted Health
    • General Partner at Great Point Ventures
    • UC Berkeley CDSS Advisory Board
  • Former U.S Chief Data Scientist for the Obama Administration
    • Established new healthcare programs like the Precision Medicine Initiative and the Cancer Moonshot
    • Led criminal justice reforms including the Data-Driven Justice and Police Data Initiatives
    • Awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service — highest honor the department bestows on a civilian

Great story about DJ’s journey to the White House

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpatil/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Patil

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President Obama Welcomes DJ Patil

In this speech, President Obama stresses the importance of data science to the nations future and welcomes DJ Patil.