OKRs. You probably have them. Should you? What should you try to get out of them? How do they make you feel? 

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Ian and Otis answer some listener mail about what to use when there are no other data scientists to collaborate. They also address the question "Are analysts engineers?" and what that should mean to both hiring managers and candidates.

Bacon Hot Sauce entrepreneur and Chief Strategist Peter Fishman drops by to talk about election night, investigating metric drops and a few other subject.

Data Science has become dangerous. You could be hurting other people through the practice of your job, and there's no reason to try to reason through it all on your own.  Guest John Taylor discusses some ethical frameworks as tools to help you with tough issues.

Otis and Ian get some gentle, snarky feedback. The theory of human capital is discussed at length.

We finally discuss Otis' workflow. Some time is spent on the dreaded correlated error terms. Some abuse is hurled at econ departments and stata.

We read responses to previous episodes. We discuss data  engineering decisions early in a company, and discuss Ian's ML workflow in some depth.

recovering lost episodes

Ian has work news. Otis has fears about jira. Reproducibility has varying degrees of value.

Restoring lost episodes 

Otis and Ian talk about self driving cars and ETL with a small segway in between.

01:54 Robot Cars and Pedestrians:

22:50 ETL

Restoring our lost episode archive