Linear Digressions

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 Juli 201824min

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 Juni 201816min

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 Juni 201828min

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 Juni 201818min

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 Juni 201822min

Data science and analytics are hot topics in business these days, but for a lot of folks looking to bring data into their organization, it can be hard to know where to start and what it looks like whe...

20 Maj 201819min

Shapley values in machine learning are an interesting and useful enough innovation that we figured hey, why not do a two-parter? Our last episode focused on explaining what Shapley values are: they de...

13 Maj 201819min

As machine learning models get into the hands of more and more users, there's an increasing expectation that black box isn't good enough: users want to understand why the model made a given prediction...

7 Maj 201827min