Econometrics Is The Original Data Science

This is why you should know more about it

James Asher
Towards Data Science
8 min readMar 10, 2022

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I remember beginning my first online course in machine learning and realising that I already knew most of it.

I’m going to preface this article by saying that I’m a trained and journal published econometrician — I’m biased. Do you know who is also biased? Joshua Angrist — a 2021 Nobel Prize winner…

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