Data Driven to Defeat

Conor Digan
5 min readJun 14, 2020

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Lessons from the Vietnam war on the limits of being Data Driven

When fighting a war, one important thing to know is whether you are winning or not!

Before the Vietnam war, the US military had fought in 3 major conflicts during the 20th century — WW1, WW2 & the Korean war. All of these were more conventional wars where you fought over land. Thus, whether you…

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Conor Digan

Data Scientist intrigued by our new world of big data and the strange effects it can have on our society