Not So Standard Deviations

Hilary and Roger revisit GANs and discuss what makes for a good data analysis.

Show notes:

NYT Article on software problem: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/05/us/data-revised-on-soot-in-air-and-deaths.html

Callisto: https://www.projectcallisto.org/what-we-do

Universal Paperclips: http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

Workshop Cafe: http://www.workshopcafe.com/

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Hilary and Roger discuss when to hire a data scientist, the Kaggle State of Data Science and Machine Learning Survey, and the lack of tools for tracking changes to data.

Show notes:

Stickers at Sonos: https://twitter.com/jahilliar/status/926153450857082880

John Carmack on git: https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/929389759624916992

Linear Digressions episode on “Data Lineage”: http://lineardigressions.com/episodes/2017/9/3/data-lineage

Kaggle State of Data Science Survey: https://www.kaggle.com/surveys/2017

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Roger went to the rOpenSci Oz Unconference and Hilary led a design sprint. 

Show notes:

rOpenSci OzUnconf 2017: http://ozunconf17.ropensci.org

Summary of OzUnconf by Nick Tierney: https://ropensci.org/blog/2017/10/31/ozunconf2017/

How do you convince people to use R? https://simplystatistics.org/2017/10/30/how-do-you-convince-others-to-use-r/

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Hilary and Roger discuss listener names, facial recognition, coding boot camps, wildfires in California, edge computing, and AR measuring apps. Plus, more on stickers!

Show notes:

Biometric Menagerie: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20075454

Coding boot camps closing down: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/technology/coding-boot-camps-close.html?_r=0&referer=https://t.co/oGIlQwOjrH?amp=1

Sudoku Solver: https://blog.prototypr.io/behind-the-magic-how-we-built-the-arkit-sudoku-solver-e586e5b685b0

Beijing Air Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/beijingair

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Hilary and Roger continue their late night contemplations about stickers, collecting new data for training machine learning algorithms, and paying for open (and closed) source software.

Show notes:

Sticker madness: https://twitter.com/hspter/status/908102841323188225

Sticker on phone: https://twitter.com/hspter/status/908279790859378689

Apple trains Face ID with separate study of faces (Tech Crunch): https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/15/interview-apples-craig-federighi-answers-some-burning-questions-about-face-id/

Open source business models: https://twitter.com/zedshaw/status/906286839044210689

LICKI brush https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1046165765/licki-brush-lick-your-cat

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Hilary and Roger have a late-night discussion about JupyterCon, data analysis and decisions, and other deeper topics.

Show Notes:

JupyterCon: https://conferences.oreilly.com/jupyter/jup-ny

Financial stability monitor: https://www.financialresearch.gov/financial-stability-monitor/

Catistician: https://twitter.com/ChelseaParlett/status/902581025175429120

Tyranny of Structurelessness: http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

Data Alone Isn’t Ground Truth (by Angela Bassa): https://medium.com/@angebassa/data-alone-isnt-ground-truth-9e733079dfd4

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Hilary and Roger continue the discussion about whether good data analysis can lead to bad outcomes, talk about private cloud servers, and discuss whether data represent ground truth.

Show Notes:

Movies on tape: https://twitter.com/ngedrich/status/888142458944593920

Private cloud server: https://antsle.com/product/

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Hilary and Roger talk about building data science products that provide a good user experience while adhering to some kind of ground truth, whether it’s in medicine, education, news, or elsewhere. Also Gilmore Girls.

Show Notes:

HIll’s criteria for causation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Hill_criteria

O’Reilly Bots Podcast: https://www.oreilly.com/topics/oreilly-bots-podcast

NHTSA’s Federal Automated Vehicles Policy: http://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/av/index.html

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Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng

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Hilary and Roger talk about teaching R in the era of the tidyverse, joyplots, follow up on explainable AI, writing versus data analysis, and Google Music playlists. They also take some reader questions and Hilary has an amazing app idea. Lastly, Roger has a special announcement.

Show Notes:

Joyplots: https://twitter.com/i/moments/887307963173658624

Stripe slide deck on explainable AI: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rZHPDqDFEOcEQhqm3lTKD7Cf5XGvj4iB04W8KA4ar5w/mobilepresent?slide=id.g221bed7464_0_0

Roger's tweet storm on teaching R: https://twitter.com/rdpeng/status/882767951614627840

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Hilary and Roger discuss the paradigm-shifting Echo Show, whether we need explainable AI or not, and how lessons from DevOps could be useful in analysis development. Show notes: Peter Norvig on explainable AI: https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/621059/google-research-chief-questions-value-explainable-ai/ Wired article about Google's Site Reliability Engineering: https://www.wired.com/2016/04/google-ensures-services-almost-never-go/?mbid=nl_4616 Support us through our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/NSSDeviations Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng Hilary on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hspter Get the Not So Standard Deviations book: https://leanpub.com/conversationsondatascience/ Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/not-so-standard-deviations/id1040614570 Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Izfnbx6tlruojkfrvhjfdj3nmna Find past episodes: https://soundcloud.com/nssd-podcast Contact us at [email protected]