On Causal Inference in Fintech & Being an Author || Matheus Facure || Causal Bandits Ep. 009 (2024)

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Recorded on Oct 15, 2023 in São Paulo, Brazil


Causal Inference in Fintech? For Brave and True Only

From rural Brazil to one of the country’s largest banks, Matheus’ journey could inspire many.

Similarly to our previous guest, Iyar Lin, Matheus was interested in politics, but switched to economics, where he fell in love with math.

Observing the state of the industry, he quickly realized that without causality, we cannot answer some of the most interesting business questions.

His popular online book 'Causal Inference for The Brave and True' was a side effect of his strong drive to learn causal inference and causal machine learning, while collecting as much feedback as possible along the way.

Did he succeed?

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About The Guest
Matheus Facure is a Staff Data Scientist at Nubank and the author of "Causal Inference for The Brave and True" and "Causal Inference in Python".

Connect with Matheus:
- Matheus on Twitter/X
- Matheus on LinkedIn
- Matheus's web page

About The Host
Aleksander (Alex) Molak is an independent machine learning researcher, educator, entrepreneur and a best-selling author in the area of causality

Connect with Alex:
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Links
Books
- Facure (2023) – Causal Inference in Python
- Molak (2023) – Causal Inference and Discovery in Python


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