Will Assaf


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Moving Into Consulting 101

Introduction to this blog series

After being laid off by a Great Recession-era mortgage company in 2007, I entered into consulting. I made that switch from in-house DBA to consulting...

2021-03-30 (first published: )

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Confounding Variables from Historical Bias

Note: co-authored with Christine Assaf, originally published in the now-defunct PASS Blog.
Historical data analysis that is naïve to past discrimination is doomed to parrot bias. How do we combat bias in our...

2020-09-23

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I have this data in a table?

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