What Data Scientists Can Learn from Software Engineers
We're back again with friend of the pod Walt, former software engineer extraordinaire and current data scientist extraordinaire, to talk about some best practices from software engineering that are re...
24 Jul 201723min
Software Engineering to Data Science
Data scientists and software engineers often work side by side, building out and scaling technical products and services that are data-heavy but also require a lot of software engineering to build and...
17 Jul 201719min
Re-Release: Fighting Cholera with Data, 1854
This episode was first released in November 2014. In the 1850s, there were a lot of things we didn’t know yet: how to create an airplane, how to split an atom, or how to control the spread of a commo...
10 Jul 201712min
Re-Release: Data Mining Enron
This episode was first release in February 2015. In 2000, Enron was one of the largest and companies in the world, praised far and wide for its innovations in energy distribution and many other marke...
2 Jul 201732min
Factorization Machines
What do you get when you cross a support vector machine with matrix factorization? You get a factorization machine, and a darn fine algorithm for recommendation engines.
26 Jun 201719min
Anscombe's Quartet
Anscombe's Quartet is a set of four datasets that have the same mean, variance and correlation but look very different. It's easy to think that having a good set of summary statistics (like mean, var...
19 Jun 201715min
Traffic Metering Algorithms
Originally release June 2016 This episode is for all you (us) traffic nerds--we're talking about the hidden structure underlying traffic on-ramp metering systems. These systems slow down the flow of ...
12 Jun 201718min
Page Rank
The year: 1998. The size of the web: 150 million pages. The problem: information retrieval. How do you find the "best" web pages to return in response to a query? A graduate student named Larry Pa...
5 Jun 201719min
