Conference Video: Key Takeaways and Lessons Learned from a Newcomer to Causal Inference

This is Apurvaa Subramaniam’s presentation from the WiDS Puget Sound Conference 2021. Enjoy!

ABSTRACT:

We've all heard that 'correlation does not imply causation'. So how do you determine causality and why is it important? This talk will give attendees an introduction to the field of causal inference: I will discuss a few techniques as well as my experience working on a project at my workplace.

BIO:

Apurvaa is a Data Scientist at Amazon where she’s worked in multiple teams on a variety of data science/analytics problems such as experiment design, predictive modeling and causal inference. She has a Masters in Analytics from Northwestern University and a Bachelors in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.