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Episode 8: The One One One One One Zero One One One One One

Happy New Years! This week the team discusses the data science of Reddit, board games, video games, and... murder!

Links to items we talked about on this week's episode:

  1. The Ultimate Reddit Stats Breakdown
  2. Machine Unlearning and The Value of Imperfect Models
  3. Wedding, the Dollar and Babies
  4. How Fast You’ll Abandon Your New Year’s Resolutions
  5. Designing the best Board Game on the Planet
  6. Understanding the Street Fighter Tier List
  7. Programming Computer Vision in Python
  8. The Algorithms Solving Some of the World's Most Befuddling Problems
  9. 40 Maps and Charts that Explain Sports in America
  10. The Superfans Using Stats To Get To The Bottom Of ‘Serial’

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Episode 6: The One About Star Trek, Zombies and Contraceptives

With beers in hand, Jonathon and Chris tackle the tough issues! Futuristic universal translators, zombie invasions and the rhythm method!

Episode 5: The Remarkably Sober One

This week, a drink-less Jonathon and Chris once again delve into the world of data science, exploring the identification of moody music, making Star Wars API pulls, why diversity is a competitive advantage, and much more.

Links to the articles we talked about in this week's show:

  1. I ♥ Julia
  2. The Star Wars API
  3. In Ebola outbreak, bad data adds another problem
  4. Farming with data science
  5. Lies, Damn Lies And The Myth Of Following The Data
  6. Guessing the mood of music with machine learning
  7. Automatically making sense of data
  8. Free big data sources
  9. Google for Entrepreneurs is now offering minorities up to $25,000 in data science scholarships
  10. Twitter data to track depression

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Episode 4: The One Where Chris Unfriends Jonathon

With the tryptophan wearing off, this week the Partially Derivative crew discusses how data science knows when you are quitting your job, feeling sad, spreading lies, and much more.

Links to the articles we talked about in this week's show:

  1. This Company Knows When You’re About to Quit Your Job
  2. The Google misery index: The times of year we’re most depressed, anxious and stressed
  3. Non-technical data scientists “big trend” for 2015
  4. Making the most detailed tweet map ever
  5. Python code for describing images with sentences
  6. One Weird Trick to Stop Facebook Hoaxes
  7. Narrative Science turns big data into stories
  8. The quick and the dead
  9. Sentiment analysis in images
  10. 'You're the bomb!' Are you at risk from the anti-terrorism algorithms?

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Episode 3: The One About Touchy Subjects

This week we talk about Ferguson, executive orders, and how much people get paid! Plus aliens!

  1. Tweeting Ferguson: how social media can (and cannot) facilitate protest
  2. Every President’s Executive Orders in One Chart 
  3. In-depth introduction to machine learning in 15 hours of expert videos 
  4. Data Predicts We’ll Find Aliens in 20 Years
    1. Lucianne Walkowicz’s SETI research using machine learning and Kepler data
  5. Round numbers
    1. Benford's Law
  6. Bidirectionalized Bitemporal Databases
  7. Introducing Charted
  8. Uber’s Data Science Team Links Uber Rides and Prostitution
  9. 2014 Data Science Salary Survey
  10. The business plans of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: Take X and add AI (via Chris Dixon's blog)

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Episode 2: The One Where Chris Trusts Nothing

In this week's episode, Jonathon and Chris tackle using data and algorithms in lawsuits, a way to describe a picture in less than a thousand words, how to dominate your pickup basketball game with data science, and much more. Grab a cold drink and enjoy.

Links to the articles we talked about in this week's show:

  1. Google Uses Machine Learning to Automatically Caption Images
  2. How to Lie with Indices
  3. Harvard Researchers Use Data to “Transform the NBA”
  4. Trust The Algorithms, Not the Data
  5. Data Science in Police Work
  6. When Fitbit is the Expert Witness
  7. Comet 1, Butt 0
  8. Outlier Pollsters Cheated Themselves in Virginia’s Senate Race
  9. A Repo of Small Datasets
  10. One CSV, Thirty Stories

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Episode 1: The One in Which We Prepare for Family Gatherings

In our much anticipated inaugural episode, Chris and Jonathon talk about the lack of data scientists, sweet "big data" slides full of 1s and 0s, and visualizations that help you figure out the difference between your third cousin and your first cousin twice removed. Let's roll!

Links to the articles we talked about in this week's show:

  1. A Very Short History of Big Data
  2. Universities Can't Train Data Scientists Fast Enough
  3. The Importance of Seeing Not Just Describing Data
  4. Enough with Feel Good Data Science
  5. The Plan to Map Illegal Fishing from Space
  6. Data is Just a Clue to an End Truth
  7. Pictures of Big Data
  8. Chart of Cousins
  9. Data Science for Social Good Fellowship
  10. Predicting Airline Delays

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