Interview with Prof. Andrew Lo, on using data science to inform complex business decisions
This episode features Prof. Andrew Lo, the author of a paper that we discussed recently on Linear Digressions, in which Prof. Lo uses data to predict whether a medicine in the development pipeline wil...
16 Dec 201927min
Using machine learning to predict drug approvals
One of the hottest areas in data science and machine learning right now is healthcare: the size of the healthcare industry, the amount of data it generates, and the myriad improvements possible in the...
8 Dec 201925min
Facial recognition, society, and the law
Facial recognition being used in everyday life seemed far-off not too long ago. Increasingly, it’s being used and advanced widely and with increasing speed, which means that our technical capabilities...
2 Dec 201943min
Lessons learned from doing data science, at scale, in industry
If you’ve taken a machine learning class, or read up on A/B tests, you likely have a decent grounding in the theoretical pillars of data science. But if you’re in a position to have actually built lot...
25 Nov 201928min
Varsity A/B Testing
When you want to understand if doing something causes something else to happen, like if a change to a website causes and dip or rise in downstream conversions, the gold standard analysis method is to ...
18 Nov 201936min
The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists: Growing Careers
In the third and final installment of a conversation with Michelangelo D’Agostino, VP of Data Science and Engineering at Shoprunner, about growing and mentoring data scientists on your team. Some of o...
11 Nov 201925min
The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists: Recruiting and Hiring Data Scientists
This week’s episode is the second in a three-part interview series with Michelangelo D’Agostino, VP of Data Science at Shoprunner. This discussion centers on building a team, which means recruiting, i...
4 Nov 201920min
The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists: Becoming a Data Science Manager
Data science management isn’t easy, and many data scientists are finding themselves learning on the job how to manage data science teams as they get promoted into more formal leadership roles. O’Reill...
28 Okt 201924min
