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Linear Digressions

Linear Digressions

279 episodes

In each episode, your hosts explore machine learning and data science through interesting (and often very unusual) applications.

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So long, and thanks for all the fish

Published: July 26, 2020, 11:32 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 44 seconds

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A Reality Check on AI-Driven Medical Assistants

Published: July 19, 2020, 11:51 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes

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A Data Science Take on Open Policing Data

Published: July 13, 2020, 2:02 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 44 seconds

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The Data Science Open Source Ecosystem

Published: June 29, 2020, 2:34 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 6 seconds

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Criminology and Data Science

Published: June 15, 2020, 1:26 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 57 seconds

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Racism, the criminal justice system, and data science

Published: June 7, 2020, 11:33 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 36 seconds

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An interstitial word from Ben

Published: June 5, 2020, 1:38 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 59 seconds

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Convolutional Neural Networks

Published: May 31, 2020, 9:46 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 55 seconds

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Protecting Individual-Level Census Data with Differential Privacy

Published: May 18, 2020, 1:49 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 19 seconds

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Causal Trees

Published: May 11, 2020, 1:34 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 27 seconds

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The Grammar Of Graphics

Published: May 4, 2020, 1:12 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 38 seconds

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Gaussian Processes

Published: April 27, 2020, 1:33 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 55 seconds

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Keeping ourselves honest when we work with observational healthcare data

Published: April 20, 2020, 2:43 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 8 seconds

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Changing our formulation of AI to avoid runaway risks: Interview with Prof. Stuart Russell

Published: April 13, 2020, 1:55 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 58 seconds

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Putting machine learning into a database

Published: April 6, 2020, 1:51 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 22 seconds

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The work-from-home episode

Published: March 29, 2020, 10:23 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 6 seconds

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Understanding Covid-19 transmission: what the data suggests about how the disease spreads

Published: March 23, 2020, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 25 seconds

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Network effects re-release: when the power of a public health measure lies in widespread adoption

Published: March 15, 2020, 10:43 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 40 seconds

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Causal inference when you can't experiment: difference-in-differences and synthetic controls

Published: March 9, 2020, 1:39 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 48 seconds

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The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis

Published: Feb. 23, 2020, 11:03 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 45 seconds

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Interesting technical issues prompted by GDPR and data privacy concerns

Published: Feb. 17, 2020, 1:50 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 26 seconds

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Thinking of data science initiatives as innovation initiatives

Published: Feb. 10, 2020, 1:10 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 27 seconds

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Building a curriculum for educating data scientists: Interview with Prof. Xiao-Li Meng

Published: Feb. 2, 2020, 11:36 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 36 seconds

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Running experiments when there are network effects

Published: Jan. 27, 2020, 12:13 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 45 seconds

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Zeroing in on what makes adversarial examples possible

Published: Jan. 20, 2020, 2:41 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 51 seconds

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Unsupervised Dimensionality Reduction: UMAP vs t-SNE

Published: Jan. 13, 2020, 12:53 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 34 seconds

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Data scientists: beware of simple metrics

Published: Jan. 5, 2020, 10:54 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 47 seconds

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Communicating data science, from academia to industry

Published: Dec. 30, 2019, 1:53 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 15 seconds

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Optimizing for the short-term vs. the long-term

Published: Dec. 23, 2019, 2:50 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 24 seconds

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Interview with Prof. Andrew Lo, on using data science to inform complex business decisions

Published: Dec. 16, 2019, 3:15 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Using machine learning to predict drug approvals

Published: Dec. 8, 2019, 10:56 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes

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Lessons learned from doing data science, at scale, in industry

Published: Nov. 25, 2019, 12:45 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes

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Varsity A/B Testing

Published: Nov. 18, 2019, 2:09 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes

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The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists: Growing Careers

Published: Nov. 11, 2019, 3:44 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 19 seconds

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The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists: Recruiting and Hiring Data Scientists

Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 12:21 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 16 seconds

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The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists: Becoming a Data Science Manager

Published: Oct. 28, 2019, 1:27 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 45 seconds

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Procella: YouTube's super-system for analytics data storage

Published: Oct. 21, 2019, 1:27 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 48 seconds

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What's *really* so hard about feature engineering?

Published: Oct. 6, 2019, 10:37 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 18 seconds

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Data storage for analytics: stars and snowflakes

Published: Sept. 30, 2019, 11:22 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 22 seconds

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Data storage: transactions vs. analytics

Published: Sept. 23, 2019, 1:49 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 8 seconds

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GROVER: an algorithm for making, and detecting, fake news

Published: Sept. 16, 2019, 3:21 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 28 seconds

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Data science teams as innovation initiatives

Published: Sept. 9, 2019, 2:24 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 21 seconds

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Organizational Models for Data Scientists

Published: Aug. 25, 2019, 11:06 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 9 seconds

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Data Shapley

Published: Aug. 19, 2019, 2:38 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 55 seconds

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Putting the "science" in data science: the scientific method, the null hypothesis, and p-hacking

Published: July 29, 2019, 1:30 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 11 seconds

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Interleaving

Published: July 22, 2019, 12:20 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 54 seconds

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Deepfakes

Published: July 1, 2019, 1:25 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 8 seconds

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Revisiting Biased Word Embeddings

Published: June 24, 2019, 12:26 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 9 seconds

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Attention in Neural Nets

Published: June 17, 2019, 12:28 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 32 seconds

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Interview with Joel Grus

Published: June 10, 2019, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 46 seconds

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Re - Release: Factorization Machines

Published: June 3, 2019, 1:32 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 9 seconds

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Re-release: Auto-generating websites with deep learning

Published: May 27, 2019, 2:01 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 38 seconds

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Advice to those trying to get a first job in data science

Published: May 19, 2019, 9:50 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 33 seconds

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Re - Release: Machine Learning Technical Debt

Published: May 12, 2019, 11:07 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 29 seconds

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Estimating Software Projects, and Why It's Hard

Published: May 5, 2019, 10:27 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 7 seconds

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The Black Hole Algorithm

Published: April 29, 2019, 12:55 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 17 seconds

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Structure in AI

Published: April 21, 2019, 10:29 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 5 seconds

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The Great Data Science Specialist vs. Generalist Debate

Published: April 15, 2019, 12:55 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 10 seconds

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Google X, and Taking Risks the Smart Way

Published: April 8, 2019, 1:10 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 4 seconds

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Statistical Significance in Hypothesis Testing

Published: April 1, 2019, 1:34 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 34 seconds

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The Language Model Too Dangerous to Release

Published: March 25, 2019, 1:39 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 1 second

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The cathedral and the bazaar

Published: March 17, 2019, 10:47 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 36 seconds

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AlphaStar

Published: March 11, 2019, 1:18 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 3 seconds

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Are machine learning engineers the new data scientists?

Published: March 4, 2019, 2:57 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 46 seconds

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Interview with Alex Radovic, particle physicist turned machine learning researcher

Published: Feb. 25, 2019, 1:59 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 42 seconds

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K Nearest Neighbors

Published: Feb. 17, 2019, 11:57 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 25 seconds

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Not every deep learning paper is great. Is that a problem?

Published: Feb. 11, 2019, 12:06 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 54 seconds

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The Assumptions of Ordinary Least Squares

Published: Feb. 3, 2019, 11:24 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 7 seconds

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Quantile Regression

Published: Jan. 28, 2019, 1:27 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 46 seconds

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Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

Published: Jan. 20, 2019, 11:57 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 24 seconds

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Pre-training language models for natural language processing problems

Published: Jan. 14, 2019, 12:42 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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Facial Recognition, Society, and the Law

Published: Jan. 7, 2019, 2:03 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 46 seconds

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Re-release: Word2Vec

Published: Dec. 31, 2018, 1:56 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 59 seconds

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Re - Release: The Cold Start Problem

Published: Dec. 23, 2018, 8:23 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 37 seconds

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Convex (and non-convex) Optimization

Published: Dec. 17, 2018, 3:06 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes

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The Normal Distribution and the Central Limit Theorem

Published: Dec. 9, 2018, 6:58 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 11 seconds

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Software 2.0

Published: Dec. 2, 2018, 11:23 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 22 seconds

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Limitations of Deep Nets for Computer Vision

Published: Nov. 18, 2018, 7:01 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 20 seconds

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Building Data Science Teams

Published: Nov. 12, 2018, 3:16 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 9 seconds

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Optimized Optimized Web Crawling

Published: Nov. 4, 2018, 9:38 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 42 seconds

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Optimized Web Crawling

Published: Oct. 28, 2018, 11:56 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 32 seconds

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Better Know a Distribution: The Poisson Distribution

Published: Oct. 22, 2018, 12:53 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 51 seconds

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Searching for Datasets with Google

Published: Oct. 15, 2018, 1:11 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 54 seconds

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It's our fourth birthday

Published: Oct. 8, 2018, 2:33 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 6 seconds

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Gigantic Searches in Particle Physics

Published: Sept. 30, 2018, 6:52 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 46 seconds

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Data Engineering

Published: Sept. 24, 2018, 1:10 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 22 seconds

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Text Analysis for Guessing the NYTimes Op-Ed Author

Published: Sept. 16, 2018, 6:13 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 37 seconds

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The Three Types of Data Scientists, and What They Actually Do

Published: Sept. 9, 2018, 7 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 25 seconds

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Agile Development for Data Scientists, Part 2: Where Modifications Help

Published: Aug. 26, 2018, 7:59 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 17 seconds

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Agile Development for Data Scientists, Part 1: The Good

Published: Aug. 19, 2018, 6:06 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 56 seconds

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Re - Release: How To Lose At Kaggle

Published: Aug. 13, 2018, 2:31 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 54 seconds

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Troubling Trends In Machine Learning Scholarship

Published: Aug. 6, 2018, 1:31 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 35 seconds

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Can Fancy Running Shoes Cause You To Run Faster?

Published: July 29, 2018, 7:12 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 37 seconds

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Compliance Bias

Published: July 22, 2018, 4:07 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 28 seconds

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AI Winter

Published: July 15, 2018, 8:11 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 2 seconds

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Rerelease: How to Find New Things to Learn

Published: July 8, 2018, 10:28 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 32 seconds

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Rerelease: Space Codes

Published: July 2, 2018, 4:36 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 30 seconds

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Rerelease: Anscombe's Quartet

Published: June 25, 2018, 1:20 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 14 seconds

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Rerelease: Hurricanes Produced

Published: June 18, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 12 seconds

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GDPR

Published: June 11, 2018, 2:24 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 24 seconds

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Git for Data Scientists

Published: June 3, 2018, 5:52 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 5 seconds

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Analytics Maturity

Published: May 20, 2018, 3:09 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 32 seconds

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SHAP: Shapley Values in Machine Learning

Published: May 13, 2018, 2:24 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 12 seconds

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Game Theory for Model Interpretability: Shapley Values

Published: May 7, 2018, 2:17 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 6 seconds

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AutoML

Published: April 30, 2018, 2:50 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 24 seconds

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CPUs, GPUs, TPUs: Hardware for Deep Learning

Published: April 23, 2018, 2:52 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 40 seconds

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A Technical Introduction to Capsule Networks

Published: April 16, 2018, 1:12 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 28 seconds

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A Conceptual Introduction to Capsule Networks

Published: April 9, 2018, 1:59 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 5 seconds

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Convolutional Neural Nets

Published: April 2, 2018, 1:40 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 55 seconds

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Google Flu Trends

Published: March 26, 2018, 1:20 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 46 seconds

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How to pick projects for a professional data science team

Published: March 19, 2018, 3:07 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 17 seconds

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Autoencoders

Published: March 12, 2018, 1:47 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 41 seconds

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When Private Data Isn't Private Anymore

Published: March 5, 2018, 3:35 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 20 seconds

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What makes a machine learning algorithm "superhuman"?

Published: Feb. 26, 2018, 4:52 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 48 seconds

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Open Data and Open Science

Published: Feb. 19, 2018, 1:39 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 54 seconds

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Defining the quality of a machine learning production system

Published: Feb. 12, 2018, 2 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 29 seconds

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Auto-generating websites with deep learning

Published: Feb. 4, 2018, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 24 seconds

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The Case for Learned Index Structures, Part 2: Hash Maps and Bloom Filters

Published: Jan. 29, 2018, 2:15 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 41 seconds

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The Case for Learned Index Structures, Part 1: B-Trees

Published: Jan. 22, 2018, 2:32 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 50 seconds

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Challenges with Using Machine Learning to Classify Chest X-Rays

Published: Jan. 15, 2018, 1:57 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes

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The Fourier Transform

Published: Jan. 8, 2018, 2:07 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 39 seconds

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Statistics of Beer

Published: Jan. 2, 2018, 1:57 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 20 seconds

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Re - Release: Random Kanye

Published: Dec. 24, 2017, 7:07 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 33 seconds

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Debiasing Word Embeddings

Published: Dec. 18, 2017, 2:31 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 20 seconds

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The Kernel Trick and Support Vector Machines

Published: Dec. 11, 2017, 1:58 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds

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Maximal Margin Classifiers

Published: Dec. 4, 2017, 4:03 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 21 seconds

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Re - Release: The Cocktail Party Problem

Published: Nov. 27, 2017, 2:11 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 43 seconds

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Clustering with DBSCAN

Published: Nov. 20, 2017, 3:08 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 14 seconds

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The Kaggle Survey on Data Science

Published: Nov. 13, 2017, 2:49 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 20 seconds

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Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt

Published: Nov. 6, 2017, 4:35 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 18 seconds

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Improving Upon a First-Draft Data Science Analysis

Published: Oct. 30, 2017, 1:38 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 1 second

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Survey Raking

Published: Oct. 23, 2017, 2:51 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 23 seconds

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Happy Hacktoberfest

Published: Oct. 16, 2017, 1:46 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 40 seconds

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Re - Release: Kalman Runners

Published: Oct. 9, 2017, 2:28 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 53 seconds

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Neural Net Dropout

Published: Oct. 2, 2017, 3:32 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 53 seconds

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Disciplined Data Science

Published: Sept. 25, 2017, 1:49 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 34 seconds

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Hurricane Forecasting

Published: Sept. 18, 2017, 1:37 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Finding Spy Planes with Machine Learning

Published: Sept. 11, 2017, 2:11 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 9 seconds

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Data Provenance

Published: Sept. 4, 2017, 1:35 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 48 seconds

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Adversarial Examples

Published: Aug. 28, 2017, 2:25 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 11 seconds

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Jupyter Notebooks

Published: Aug. 21, 2017, 1:09 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 50 seconds

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Curing Cancer with Machine Learning is Super Hard

Published: Aug. 14, 2017, 1:49 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 20 seconds

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KL Divergence

Published: Aug. 7, 2017, 3:07 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 38 seconds

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Sabermetrics

Published: July 31, 2017, 1:15 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 48 seconds

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What Data Scientists Can Learn from Software Engineers

Published: July 24, 2017, 1:52 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 46 seconds

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Software Engineering to Data Science

Published: July 17, 2017, 2:36 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 5 seconds

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Re-Release: Fighting Cholera with Data, 1854

Published: July 10, 2017, 12:19 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 4 seconds

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Re-Release: Data Mining Enron

Published: July 2, 2017, 5:53 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 16 seconds

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Factorization Machines

Published: June 26, 2017, 2:23 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 54 seconds

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Anscombe's Quartet

Published: June 19, 2017, 2:19 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 39 seconds

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Page Rank

Published: June 5, 2017, 1:46 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 58 seconds

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Fractional Dimensions

Published: May 29, 2017, 2:54 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 28 seconds

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Things You Learn When Building Models for Big Data

Published: May 22, 2017, 1:44 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 39 seconds

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How to Find New Things to Learn

Published: May 15, 2017, 1:49 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 54 seconds

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Federated Learning

Published: May 8, 2017, 1:50 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 3 seconds

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Word2Vec

Published: May 1, 2017, 2:17 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 59 seconds

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Feature Processing for Text Analytics

Published: April 24, 2017, 2:17 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 28 seconds

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Education Analytics

Published: April 17, 2017, 2:09 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 5 seconds

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A Technical Deep Dive on Stanley, the First Self-Driving Car

Published: April 10, 2017, 1:50 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 42 seconds

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An Introduction to Stanley, the First Self-Driving Car

Published: April 3, 2017, 1:34 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 7 seconds

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Feature Importance

Published: March 27, 2017, 1:53 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 15 seconds

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Space Codes!

Published: March 20, 2017, 2:50 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 56 seconds

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Finding (and Studying) Wikipedia Trolls

Published: March 13, 2017, 1:44 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 50 seconds

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A Sprint Through What's New in Neural Networks

Published: March 6, 2017, 3:27 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 56 seconds

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Stein's Paradox

Published: Feb. 27, 2017, 2:51 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 2 seconds

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Empirical Bayes

Published: Feb. 20, 2017, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 57 seconds

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Endogenous Variables and Measuring Protest Effectiveness

Published: Feb. 13, 2017, 3:31 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 28 seconds

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Calibrated Models

Published: Feb. 6, 2017, 1:56 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 32 seconds

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Rock the ROC Curve

Published: Jan. 30, 2017, 3:38 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 52 seconds

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Ensemble Algorithms

Published: Jan. 23, 2017, 2:31 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 8 seconds

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How to evaluate a translation: BLEU scores

Published: Jan. 16, 2017, 1:59 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 6 seconds

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Zero Shot Translation

Published: Jan. 9, 2017, 3:20 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 32 seconds

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Google Neural Machine Translation

Published: Jan. 2, 2017, 1:44 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 12 seconds

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Data and the Future of Medicine : Interview with Precision Medicine Initiative researcher Matt Might

Published: Dec. 26, 2016, 1:19 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 54 seconds

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Special Crossover Episode: Partially Derivative interview with White House Data Scientist DJ Patil

Published: Dec. 18, 2016, 5:53 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 9 seconds

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How to Lose at Kaggle

Published: Dec. 12, 2016, 4:28 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 16 seconds

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Attacking Discrimination in Machine Learning

Published: Dec. 5, 2016, 3:38 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 20 seconds

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Recurrent Neural Nets

Published: Nov. 28, 2016, 2:47 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds

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Stealing a PIN with signal processing and machine learning

Published: Nov. 21, 2016, 2:32 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 55 seconds

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Neural Net Cryptography

Published: Nov. 14, 2016, 4:06 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 16 seconds

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Deep Blue

Published: Nov. 7, 2016, 4:20 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 5 seconds

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Organizing Google's Datasets

Published: Oct. 31, 2016, 2:17 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes

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Fighting Cancer with Data Science: Followup

Published: Oct. 24, 2016, 1:58 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 48 seconds

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The 19-year-old determining the US election

Published: Oct. 17, 2016, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 28 seconds

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How to Steal a Model

Published: Oct. 9, 2016, 10:57 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 36 seconds

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Regularization

Published: Oct. 3, 2016, 2:13 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 27 seconds

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The Cold Start Problem

Published: Sept. 26, 2016, 2:24 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 37 seconds

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Open Source Software for Data Science

Published: Sept. 19, 2016, 4:27 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 5 seconds

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Scikit + Optimization = Scikit-Optimize

Published: Sept. 12, 2016, 1:54 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 41 seconds

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Two Cultures: Machine Learning and Statistics

Published: Sept. 5, 2016, 1:50 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 29 seconds

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Optimization Solutions

Published: Aug. 29, 2016, 2:01 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 7 seconds

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Optimization Problems

Published: Aug. 22, 2016, 12:25 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 50 seconds

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Multi-level modeling for understanding DEADLY RADIOACTIVE GAS

Published: Aug. 15, 2016, 1:49 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 34 seconds

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How Polls Got Brexit "Wrong"

Published: Aug. 8, 2016, 1:37 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 14 seconds

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Election Forecasting

Published: Aug. 1, 2016, 2:40 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 59 seconds

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Machine Learning for Genomics

Published: July 25, 2016, 2:14 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 22 seconds

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Climate Modeling

Published: July 18, 2016, 2:26 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 49 seconds

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Reinforcement Learning Gone Wrong

Published: July 11, 2016, 2:42 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 16 seconds

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Reinforcement Learning for Artificial Intelligence

Published: July 3, 2016, 6:28 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 30 seconds

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Differential Privacy: how to study people without being weird and gross

Published: June 27, 2016, 1:53 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 17 seconds

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How the sausage gets made

Published: June 20, 2016, 2:25 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 13 seconds

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SMOTE: makin' yourself some fake minority data

Published: June 13, 2016, 3:06 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 37 seconds

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Conjoint Analysis: like AB testing, but on steroids

Published: June 6, 2016, 2:13 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 27 seconds

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Traffic Metering Algorithms

Published: May 30, 2016, 1:57 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 30 seconds

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Um Detector 2: The Dynamic Time Warp

Published: May 23, 2016, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes

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Inside a Data Analysis: Fraud Hunting at Enron

Published: May 16, 2016, 2:36 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 28 seconds

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What's the biggest #bigdata?

Published: May 9, 2016, 1:28 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 31 seconds

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Data Contamination

Published: May 2, 2016, 2:24 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 58 seconds

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Model Interpretation (and Trust Issues)

Published: April 25, 2016, 12:45 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 57 seconds

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Updates! Political Science Fraud and AlphaGo

Published: April 18, 2016, 2:48 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 43 seconds

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Ecological Inference and Simpson's Paradox

Published: April 11, 2016, 2:43 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 32 seconds

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Discriminatory Algorithms

Published: April 4, 2016, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 21 seconds

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Recommendation Engines and Privacy

Published: March 28, 2016, 2:46 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 33 seconds

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Neural nets play cops and robbers (AKA generative adverserial networks)

Published: March 21, 2016, 2:58 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 56 seconds

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A Data Scientist's View of the Fight against Cancer

Published: March 14, 2016, 3:26 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 8 seconds

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Congress Bots and DeepDrumpf

Published: March 11, 2016, 4:17 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 47 seconds

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Multi - Armed Bandits

Published: March 7, 2016, 2:44 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 29 seconds

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Experiments and Messy, Tricky Causality

Published: March 4, 2016, 3:54 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 59 seconds

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Backpropagation

Published: Feb. 29, 2016, 3:58 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 21 seconds

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Text Analysis on the State Of The Union

Published: Feb. 26, 2016, 3:51 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 22 seconds

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Paradigms in Artificial Intelligence

Published: Feb. 22, 2016, 4:32 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 20 seconds

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Survival Analysis

Published: Feb. 19, 2016, 3:44 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 21 seconds

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Gravitational Waves

Published: Feb. 15, 2016, 2:46 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 26 seconds

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The Turing Test

Published: Feb. 12, 2016, 4:11 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 15 seconds

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Item Response Theory: how smart ARE you?

Published: Feb. 8, 2016, 3:37 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 46 seconds

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Go!

Published: Feb. 5, 2016, 4:52 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 59 seconds

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Great Social Networks in History

Published: Feb. 1, 2016, 4:22 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 42 seconds

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How Much to Pay a Spy (and a lil' more auctions)

Published: Jan. 29, 2016, 5:36 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 59 seconds

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Sold! Auctions (Part 2)

Published: Jan. 25, 2016, 2:58 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 27 seconds

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Going Once, Going Twice: Auctions (Part 1)

Published: Jan. 22, 2016, 3:40 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 39 seconds

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Chernoff Faces and Minard Maps

Published: Jan. 18, 2016, 3:38 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 11 seconds

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t-SNE: Reduce Your Dimensions, Keep Your Clusters

Published: Jan. 15, 2016, 4:05 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 55 seconds

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The [Expletive Deleted] Problem

Published: Jan. 11, 2016, 4:23 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 54 seconds

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Unlabeled Supervised Learning--whaaa?

Published: Jan. 8, 2016, 3:26 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 35 seconds

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Hacking Neural Nets

Published: Jan. 5, 2016, 2:56 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 28 seconds

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Zipf's Law

Published: Dec. 31, 2015, 6:08 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 43 seconds

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Indie Announcement

Published: Dec. 30, 2015, 3:57 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds

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Portrait Beauty

Published: Dec. 27, 2015, 1:34 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 44 seconds

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The Cocktail Party Problem

Published: Dec. 18, 2015, 12:17 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 4 seconds

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A Criminally Short Introduction to Semi Supervised Learning

Published: Dec. 4, 2015, 3:13 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds

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Thresholdout: Down with Overfitting

Published: Nov. 27, 2015, 5:55 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 52 seconds

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The State of Data Science

Published: Nov. 10, 2015, 4:36 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 40 seconds

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Data Science for Making the World a Better Place

Published: Nov. 6, 2015, 3:43 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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Kalman Runners

Published: Oct. 29, 2015, 3:10 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 42 seconds

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Neural Net Inception

Published: Oct. 23, 2015, 2:25 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 19 seconds

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Benford's Law

Published: Oct. 16, 2015, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 42 seconds

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Guinness

Published: Oct. 7, 2015, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 43 seconds

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PFun with P Values

Published: Sept. 2, 2015, 3:24 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds

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Watson

Published: Aug. 25, 2015, 2:26 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 36 seconds

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Bayesian Psychics

Published: Aug. 18, 2015, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 44 seconds

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Troll Detection

Published: Aug. 7, 2015, 8:56 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 57 seconds

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Yiddish Translation

Published: Aug. 3, 2015, 3:06 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 15 seconds

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Modeling Particles in Atomic Bombs

Published: July 6, 2015, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 38 seconds

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Random Number Generation

Published: June 19, 2015, 6:49 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 26 seconds

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Electoral Insights (Part 2)

Published: June 9, 2015, 2:46 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 18 seconds

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Electoral Insights (Part 1)

Published: June 5, 2015, 8:38 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 17 seconds

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Falsifying Data

Published: June 1, 2015, 9:04 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 46 seconds

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Reporter Bot

Published: May 20, 2015, 11:16 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 15 seconds

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Careers in Data Science

Published: May 16, 2015, 5:43 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 35 seconds

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That's "Dr Katie" to You

Published: May 14, 2015, 5:37 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 1 second

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Neural Nets (Part 2)

Published: May 11, 2015, 2:37 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 55 seconds

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Neural Nets (Part 1)

Published: May 1, 2015, 6:59 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes

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Inferring Authorship (Part 2)

Published: April 28, 2015, 4:56 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 4 seconds

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Inferring Authorship (Part 1)

Published: April 16, 2015, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 51 seconds

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Statistical Mistakes and the Challenger Disaster

Published: April 6, 2015, 7:36 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 9 seconds

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Genetics and Um Detection (HMM Part 2)

Published: March 25, 2015, 5:29 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 49 seconds

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Introducing Hidden Markov Models (HMM Part 1)

Published: March 24, 2015, 3:57 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 54 seconds

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Monte Carlo For Physicists

Published: March 12, 2015, 11:18 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 13 seconds

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Random Kanye

Published: March 4, 2015, 11:04 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 44 seconds

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Lie Detectors

Published: Feb. 25, 2015, 6:20 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 17 seconds

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The Enron Dataset

Published: Feb. 9, 2015, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 27 seconds

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Labels and Where To Find Them

Published: Feb. 4, 2015, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 15 seconds

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Um Detector 1

Published: Jan. 23, 2015, 8:16 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 19 seconds

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Better Facial Recognition with Fisherfaces

Published: Jan. 7, 2015, 1:33 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds

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Facial Recognition with Eigenfaces

Published: Jan. 7, 2015, 1:30 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 1 second

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Stats of World Series Streaks

Published: Dec. 17, 2014, 12:41 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 34 seconds

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Computers Try to Tell Jokes

Published: Nov. 26, 2014, 6:59 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 8 seconds

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How Outliers Helped Defeat Cholera

Published: Nov. 22, 2014, midnight
Duration: 10 minutes 54 seconds

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Hunting for the Higgs

Published: Nov. 16, 2014, midnight
Duration: 10 minutes 16 seconds

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