Survey Raking
It's quite common for survey respondents not to be representative of the larger population from which they are drawn. But if you're a researcher, you need to study the larger population using data fr...
23 Okt 201717min
Happy Hacktoberfest
It's the middle of October, so you've already made two pull requests to open source repos, right? If you have no idea what we're talking about, spend the next 20 minutes or so with us talking about th...
16 Okt 201715min
Re - Release: Kalman Runners
In honor of the Chicago marathon this weekend (and due in large part to Katie recovering from running in it...) we have a re-release of an episode about Kalman filters, which is part algorithm part el...
9 Okt 201717min
Neural Net Dropout
Neural networks are complex models with many parameters and can be prone to overfitting. There's a surprisingly simple way to guard against this: randomly destroy connections between hidden units, al...
2 Okt 201718min
Disciplined Data Science
As data science matures as a field, it's becoming clearer what attributes a data science team needs to have to elevate their work to the next level. Most of our episodes are about the cool work being...
25 Sep 201729min
Hurricane Forecasting
It's been a busy hurricane season in the Southeastern United States, with millions of people making life-or-death decisions based on the forecasts around where the hurricanes will hit and with what in...
18 Sep 201727min
Finding Spy Planes with Machine Learning
There are law enforcement surveillance aircraft circling over the United States every day, and in this episode, we'll talk about how some folks at BuzzFeed used public data and machine learning to fin...
11 Sep 201718min
Data Provenance
Software engineers are familiar with the idea of versioning code, so you can go back later and revive a past state of the system. For data scientists who might want to reconstruct past models, though...
4 Sep 201722min
