In this episode, Frank and Andy chat with Amanda Lange, technology evangelist at Microsoft, games journalist, and data aficionado.

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Notable Quotes

Frank is working on a Wintellect on Azure Gov (1:30)

Amanda's site is Second Truth.com (99:00)

The psychology of games (5:30)

Movie reference: Back to the Future (6:30)

How an Apple Watch or FitBit knows you're asleep (7:10)

Game violence activates sections of the brain (but it's short-lived) (8:30)

Andy lives in Farmville-not-the-game (10:30)

Zynga and A/B testing (10:45)

Amanda plays a lot of Overwatch these days (11:30)

"Games as a Service" (12:10)

Psychology in games Jeffrey "Lyte" Lin on Shaping Behavior in Online Games (13:30)

Amanda writes for Tap Repeatedly (15:00)

Amanda loves teaching people! (17:10)

"I wasn't a data scientist until I was." (17:50)

On privacy and data... (19:00)

Berkeley's Data Science curriculum is online (19:40)

Learn data science at Data 8 (22:15)

GLaDOS is a character in the Portal games (25:00)

The orchestral version of Still Alive (28:00)

No arm-wrestling with Amanda (31:45)

"We can learn anything." (32:45)

Trapping a self-driving car using salt... (34:00)

Ready Player One audio book (35:40)

Ready Player One, the Movie (99:00)

The Adventure Zone (37:50)

Audible (get a free book!) has the Dragonlance series (39:25)

Amanda tried out for American Idol (41:00)

Amanda's on Twitter @second_truth (42:00)