Episode 16: Algorithm Aversion

This week the team talks about Jonathon's new ISIS analysis, iPython 3, Indian Food, Algorithm Aversion, and more!

Links to the stories we discussed in this week's episode:

  1. The ISIS Twitter Census
  2. IPython 3.0 Released!
  3. Data Science Figures Out Why Indian Food Is So Damn Good
  4. Embrace Your Inner Algorithm
  5. Watch zombies slowly devour the US...with data!
  6. An Algorithm Can Help You Shop The Entire Wardrobe From “house Of Cards”

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Episode 15: DJ Patil Joins The Cast Of The West Wing

This week Chris and Jonathon talk about DJ Patil joining the cast of the West Wing, big data on cows, not being sketchy with user data, and more!

Links to the stories we discussed in this week's episode:

  1. DJ Patil In The WhiteHouse
  2. NYT Says Shut Up Already About The Singularity
  3. Foursquare's Dennis Crowley: Don't Be Sketchy With User Data
  4. Big Cows, Big Data
  5. Aaron Schock's Instagram Tells Tale Of High Life And Taxpayer-funded Travels
  6. Big Sports Gaming Data

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Episode 14: Data Science Is Dead!

This week the crew talks about the not-so-secret secrets of Hacker News, UPS drivers, love, and how data science is going the way of the Dodo. Kinda.

Links to the resources we discussed in this week's episode!

  1. Fifty Shades of Grey: By the numbers!
  2. Automating the Data Scientists
  3. Finding love with the Drake Equation
  4. How a Lone Hacker Shredded the Myth of Crowdsourcing
  5. What Makes Hacker News Fame
  6. At UPS, the Algorithm Is the Driver

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Episode 13: Keep Data Science Weird

This week the team explores automating hookups, data science jargon, finding Waldo, and more!

Links to the resources we discussed in this week's episode!

  1. Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces
  2. Data science buzz words and jargon demystified
  3. Where's Waldo? Algorithm Helps You Find Him
  4. Scientist made up climate change with fake data! Ok not really
  5. Crowdflower 2015 Data Scientist Report

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Episode 12: Partially Deflated

Cheating! Infectious disease! Dystopian snowpocalypse! Also Chris and Jonathon drink beer and make some jokes.

  1. Deflate-gate: Data science says the Patriots are big fat cheaters...or does it?
    1. Yes they are
    2. Maybe they're not
  2. Microsoft's Revolution Analytics Acquisition: Good for the R Community?
  3. Snowpocalypse -- I mean Snowmageddon -- 2015!
    1. Snowfall by dog size
    2. Why meteorologists got it wrong
    3. Or maybe this is why they got it wrong
  4. When Grandmasters Blunder
  5. Why kids are getting the measles
    1. In California
    2. In your state
  6. The algorithmic CEO

Episode 11: Mario's Black Box Algorithm Of Death

This week the guys breakdown silos and blue sky some new paradigms in turn-key data solutions for social good. Want to join in? Discuss this episode on DataTau!

Links to the resources we discussed in this week's episode!

  1. Banking Start-Ups Adopt New Tools for Lending
  2. Mario is now self-aware, thanks to artificial intelligence
  3. Alibaba pushes into investment world
  4. The Grade Level of Presidential Speeches
  5. The Code We Can’t Control / The Black Box Society
  6. Hear the Year 2014 Through a Data-Driven Instrument

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Episode 10: The One about Sarah Connor

This week Jonathon and Chris discuss how data affects education, emojis in politics, time-traveling killer robots, and more!

Links to the resources we discussed in this week's episode!

  1. Turns out women probably can predict the gender of their babies
  2. The Future Of Money, Among Other Things…
  3. Which emojis are tweeted at politicians?
  4. New algorithm could enable household robots to better identify objects in cluttered environments
  5. Could you be an offensive tackle? Kid predicts his brother’s college football chances with data science
  6. Artificial intelligence experts sign open letter to protect mankind from machines
  7. Machine Learning algos choose who your kid sits next to in class

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Episode 9: The One That Will Totally Change Your Life

Get ready to have your mind blown. The guys dig into all the best ways you can expand your data science horizons.

Links to the resources we discussed in this week's episode!

  1. Books
    1. Data Science
      1. Creating a Data Driven Culture
      2. Machine Learning for Hackers
      3. Programming Collective Intelligence
    2. General Data
      1. The Victory Lab
      2. Money Ball
      3. The Signal and the Noise
    3. Programming
      1. Code Complete
      2. The Phoenix Project
      3. Design Patterns
  2. MOOCs
    1. Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course
    2. Lynda's data science playlist
    3. Intro to data science on Udacity
    4. Thinkful's data science course
      1. Online masters degree courses
        1. UC Berkley
        2. Carnegie Mellon
        3. Northwestern
  3. Side projects
    1. Kaggle
    2. Email Chris and Jonathon
  4. Blogs
    1. yhat
    2. David Behnke
    3. Walking Randomly
    4. Hunch
    5. Simply Statistics
    6. FastML
  5. NBViewer
  6. Work with an expert
  7. Stack Overflow
    1. Sites in the Stack Exchange network dedicated to data science
      1. Data Science
      2. Stats
      3. Computer Science
  8. GitHub
    1. Open Data Science Masters
    2. Hilary Mason
    3. Sean Taylor
  9. Twitter
    1. Andrew Flowers
    2. DJ Patil
    3. Hilary Mason
    4. Chris Diehl
    5. Sebastian Raschka
    6. Cam Davidson-Pilon
    7. Kirk Borne
    8. Carla Gentry

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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