Writing examples: from evidence to review
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1 · Evidence notes
English sample notes: separate observed work, future intentions and missing evidence. The situation is invented for teaching.
- Computing student; academic credit-screening prototype using a teaching dataset.
- Compared errors across represented groups and documented a sparsely represented segment.
- Interested in junior financial data analysis, later product evaluation; no deployed lending system.
- Preparation and fallback plan: I would look for junior work that includes data checks, error analysis and discussions with the people using a model's output. Before applying, I plan to document the prototype's evaluation in a short note that a non-technical reader can follow, including where the sample is too small. A broader data-quality role in financial services would be a useful alternative if a lending-product position is unavailable. I would judge progress by whether I can connect an error pattern to a decision and propose a useful next check, rather than by adding more algorithms to a list.
- Progress check: I would keep a record of the checks I miss and the questions raised by non-technical colleagues, using both to guide my next learning steps.
- Evaluation role: compared results, added group sample counts, found a small segment’s percentage sensitive to a few cases. Could explain why to retain the row but struggled with the business costs of different errors.