Holy crap a mini episode! Yes, it is true. This week, in addition to our regular episode, we are experimenting with a mini episode. These episodes will be personal stories from the hosts about their time on the front lines of data science. In this first mini episode, Chris talks...
This week the gang is back with another episode! This week Jonathon discusses the academic smackdown between Riza Berkin and Yannick Versley, Vidya discovers that AI can make AI and we are all doomed, and Chris talks about algorithmic accountability and remembers that Frogger exists.
AI to escape parking tickets!
Mona Chalabi, Data Editor at the Guardian US, shares her reporting.
Overhyped ideas and interviews galore!
NASA, dark web, and open source!
Ad tech and ethics!
How to evaluate you models!
It was a pretty great year for data science! As is quickly becoming the best holiday tradition on the internet, we teamed up with Michael Kennedy from the fantastic Talk Python to Me podcast for our annual list of the year’s top data science news and developments. So grab some...
GitHub for data nerds
This week Chris flies to New York City and sits down with three engineers at Microsoft to discuss R, SQL, and why data lakes is a silly term.
GitHub for data nerds
Is polling pointless?
Why were the polls so wrong?
Every now and again we get to do some of our research, and this week Jonathon explains some of the theory behind his recent look into the alt-right: a sprawling coalition of reactionary conservatives who have lobbied to make the United States more “traditional,” more “populist” and more white. More...
There’s a new Harry Potter book? Are you Sirius? I would’ve Neville thought this was possible! Turns out it was written by a neural network, so JK Rowling probably isn’t out of a job. Plus Chris explains how high school statistics beat the Nazis in World War II, and Vidya...
Core contributor to IPython Notebook and Project Jupyter
Hey everyone! This is for everyone who subscribes to the podcast but not the blog. It’s all the details about our totally awesome upcoming meetup in London on July 11. Come say hi if you’re in London!
Author of The Functional Art and expert in data journalism
Data is Beautiful and machine learning in practice
This week’s episode was produced by Alex Bouthillier at Apollo Media
The future of data science with Eduardo Ariño de la Rubia
The ethics of data and technology with Anil Dash
This week’s episode was produced by Alex Bouthillier at Apollo Media
Predicting train delays using sound waves and data science with John Akred
The data behind biased algorithms in criminal justice.
Interactive media, data journalism and ethics with Simon Rogers, Data Editor at Google.
This week’s episode was produced by Alex Bouthillier at Apollo Media
We’re doing something a little different this week. Instead of covering the week’s data news, we’re looking at how data science is helping with the very serious problem of suicide prevention. Huge thanks to Glen Coppersmith, CEO of Qntfy, for helping us dig into this topic.
Spoiler alert! We stand with Ruth Toner, in solidarity against spoilers. Vidya discovers a robot that paints like Rembrandt – is it an artist? What is art? What is meaning? We’ll discuss. Plus, Chris has a Beautiful Mind moment and helps you avert the existential crisis that is waiting for...
