One of our simplest “screening” questions for DS roles at my company is: “your model is 100% accurate. How do you feel?”
If the answer is anything other than deep skepticism (Data leakage, trivial dataset etc), it’s a big red flag
These guys are saying something like 17M thefts in 2017, which to me is a bit concerning and almost incredible, even if they’re off by a factor of 2. I mean, it’s not the end of the world if someone assumes my identity but it certainly seems like a monumental hassle to deal with and almost certainly bound to cost several thousand dollars.
The UK's NHS recently opened up a large amount of its data to Google [0]. In parallel efforts, a company called Nuna is gathering and unifying data from state level Medicaid programs so it can be analyzed similarly [1].