Senior Data Scientist - Credit and Lending ML

About a week before Hurricane Sandy made landfall, the two leading forecast models flatly disagreed: the American one carried the storm safely out into the Atlantic, the European one turned it hard left into New Jersey.

The European model wasn't running a better simulation, it was running an ensemble.

Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated on the strength of the spread in forecast distribution, days before any single forecast could have justified moving them, and on October 29th, 2012, …