Antonio and Jordy talk about the company in California that’s so fed up with Yelp that they have requested 1 star reviews – they’ve almost made it mandatory given that they give 50% off their otherwise very expensive pizza pies. Their conversation then devolves into other tangents.

The notes below are inside look on how we structured this week’s episode … If your p-value is higher than .05, you can’t publish research. Antonio: What is a p-value?   Jordy: The P value, or calculated probability, is the probability of finding the observed, or more extreme, results when the null hypothesis (H0) of Read More ...

Two days after recording this, we saw the article ‘Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science’ – https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/us/politics/trump-climate-science.html Climate Change is a topic that requires arguments based on data not rhetoric. Science not politics. Facts not opinions. During our conversation, we referenced the following: https://www.news.gatech.edu/2018/01/17/using-data-mining-make-sense-climate-change https://nas-sites.org/americasclimatechoices https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement

Here’s our simple, straightforward guide to starting a podcast. Yes, you can do it. For our hardcore data science listeners, we’ll be back next week.

Dr. Alaa Moussawi joins us to talk about how the NYC Council is leveraging data and how this data is helping New Yorkers along the way. NYC makes their data available so you too can explore it and answer the questions that you care about – https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/ To learn more about Alaa’s Data Science Team, Read More ...

Predictive policing companies have received some unwanted attention. Police departments are minimizing their use, if not eliminating these programs altogether. Predictive policing aims at leveraging more data when determining crime areas, identifying perpetrators, and allocating resources. What do you think? Tell us on Twitter @dsimposters or email us at [email protected]

Our friend, Miguel Garcia, pops in on this episode. We always love having Miguel on the show. This is especially true today when we get his take on the latest news events we are covering in this episode. While we have Miguel on he talks to us about his role as a Senior Solutions Engineer Read More ...

Our agenda with Kenneth was to have an honest, unscripted conversation and we succeeded. If you’ve never heard of Kenneth, you may have heard of the several Python tools that he has helped to authored requests and pipenv. (According to https://pypi.org/project/requests/2.9.1/, Requests gets 43 million downloads per month.) Or you’ve read his book Hitch Hiker’s Read More ...

Brian de Heus is the Chief Technology Officer at Adgorithmics in Tokyo, Japan. We leveraged social media to reach out to him and ask him to join our show remotely. The first challenge was getting over the 14 hour time difference. The second hurdle was making sure that we stayed on topic since Antonio has Read More ...

If all you know about economics is ‘supply and demand’, you may be in for a good awakening with our next interviewee. Dr. Peter Lorentzen is professor in the Economics Department at the University of San Francisco and he is starting a new graduate program in Applied Economics. With the recent teams of Economists that Read More ...