GROVER: an algorithm for making, and detecting, fake news
There are a few things that seem to be very popular in discussions of machine learning algorithms these days. First is the role that algorithms play now, or might play in the future, when it comes to ...
16 Sep 201918min
Data science teams as innovation initiatives
When a big, established company is thinking about their data science strategy, chances are good that whatever they come up with, it’ll be somewhat at odds with the company’s current structure and proc...
9 Sep 201915min
Can Fancy Running Shoes Cause You To Run Faster?
This is a re-release of an episode that originally aired on July 29, 2018. The stars aligned for me (Katie) this past weekend: I raced my first half-marathon in a long time and got to read a great ar...
1 Sep 201930min
Organizational Models for Data Scientists
When data science is hard, sometimes it’s because the algorithms aren’t converging or the data is messy, and sometimes it’s because of organizational or business issues: the data scientists aren’t pos...
25 Aug 201923min
Data Shapley
We talk often about which features in a dataset are most important, but recently a new paper has started making the rounds that turns the idea of importance on its head: Data Shapley is an algorithm f...
19 Aug 201916min
A Technical Deep Dive on Stanley, the First Self-Driving Car
This is a re-release of an episode that first ran on April 9, 2017. In our follow-up episode to last week's introduction to the first self-driving car, we will be doing a technical deep dive this wee...
12 Aug 201941min
An Introduction to Stanley, the First Self-Driving Car
In October 2005, 23 cars lined up in the desert for a 140 mile race. Not one of those cars had a driver. This was the DARPA grand challenge to see if anyone could build an autonomous vehicle capable...
5 Aug 201914min
Putting the "science" in data science: the scientific method, the null hypothesis, and p-hacking
The modern scientific method is one of the greatest (perhaps the greatest?) system we have for discovering knowledge about the world. It’s no surprise then that many data scientists have found their s...
29 Jul 201924min
