Economic Modeling and Prediction, Charitable Giving, and a Follow Up with Peter Backus

There are several factors that are important to selecting an appropriate sample size and dealing with small samples. The most important questions are around representativeness - how well does your sam...

18 Sep 201513min

There's an old adage which says you cannot fit a model which has more parameters than you have data. While this is often the case, it's not a universal truth. Today's guest Jake VanderPlas explains th...

11 Sep 201530min

There are many occasions in which one might want to know the distance or similarity between two things, for which the means of calculating that distance is not necessarily clear. The distance between ...

4 Sep 201512min

ContentMine is a project which provides the tools and workflow to convert scientific literature into machine readable and machine interpretable data in order to facilitate better and more effective ac...

28 Aug 201553min

Today's mini-episode explains the distinction between structured and unstructured data, and debates which of these categories best describe recipes.

21 Aug 201513min

Yusan Lin shares her research on using data science to explore the fashion industry in this episode. She has applied techniques from data mining, natural language processing, and social network analys...

14 Aug 201524min

PageRank is the algorithm most famous for being one of the original innovations that made Google stand out as a search engine. It was defined in the classic paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertex...

7 Aug 20158min

In this episode, Benjamin Uminsky enlightens us about some of the ways the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk leverages data science and analysis to help be more effective and efficien...

29 Juli 201541min