Compliance Bias
When you're using an AB test to understand the effect of a treatment, there are a lot of assumptions about how the treatment (and control, for that matter) get applied. For example, it's easy to think...
22 Jul 201823min
AI Winter
Artificial Intelligence has been widely lauded as a solution to almost any problem. But as we justapose the hype in the field against the real-world benefits we see, it raises the question: Are we com...
15 Jul 201819min
Rerelease: How to Find New Things to Learn
We like learning on vacation. And we're on vacation, so we thought we'd re-air this episode about how to learn. Original Episode: https://lineardigressions.com/episodes/2017/5/14/how-to-find-new-thin...
8 Jul 201818min
Rerelease: Space Codes
We're on vacation on Mars, so we won't be communicating with you all directly this week. Though, if we wanted to, we could probably use this episode to help get started. Original Episode: http://line...
2 Jul 201824min
Rerelease: Anscombe's Quartet
We're on vacation, so we hope you enjoy this episode while we each sip cocktails on the beach. Original Episode: http://lineardigressions.com/episodes/2017/6/18/anscombes-quartet Original Summary: A...
25 Jun 201816min
Rerelease: Hurricanes Produced
Now that hurricane season is upon us again (and we are on vacation), we thought a look back on our hurricane forecasting episode was prudent. Stay safe out there.
18 Jun 201828min
GDPR
By now, you have probably heard of GDPR, the EU's new data privacy law. It's the reason you've been getting so many emails about everyone's updated privacy policy. In this episode, we talk about some...
11 Jun 201818min
Git for Data Scientists
If you're a data scientist, chances are good that you've heard of git, which is a system for version controlling code. Chances are also good that you're not quite as up on git as you want to be--git h...
3 Jun 201822min
