Our guest is Jake VanderPlas, who is a real Data Science Fellow at the UW eScience Institute, and is the author of the recently published Python Data Science Handbook.  Topics discussed include  BiCapitalization bridging the astronomy-astrology divide whether the e in eScience is the same as the e in eBay Myers-Briggs why Jake keeps saying “transcriptable” like it's a real word whether newsletters have replaced blogs how to talk to people at parties what it’s like being a data scientist in academia whether students still hook up in the library why your zodiac sign isn’t what you think it is whether Pluto is a planet and why people care teaching statistics using simulation how to pronounce "numpy" using deep learning to identify new constellations building an AI that chooses the right data visualization  This week's theme music has a cool Vegas swanky lounge vibe.  Please listen to it.

Episode 5: The Legend of Plas Vander

@joelgrus and @akm talk about data, science, data science, Shingy, and whatever else they feel like

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It's been a couple of years, so Joel and Andrew catch up on what's new in life and in data science.

Adversarial Restarting

 It turns out Joel wrote another book: Ten Essays on Fizz Buzz (Quarantine does strange things to a person.)  In this episode Andrew and Joel discuss Fizz Buzz, what makes the book interesting, the value of deconstructing problems in different ways, Joel's  side career in acting, why fluffy talks are easier to write than technical talks, the importance of staying fresh, whether "blocklist admin" is the job of the future, Minecraft classes, and how the quarantine is affecting our kids.  Please listen to it. 

Adversarial Distancing, Episode 4: Joel's Fizz Buzz Book

 About a month ago we recorded a podcast with Jowanza Joseph about engineering and COVID-19 and other mundane topics.  While I (Joel) was procrastinating on editing it, a lot happened in the world. And then Jowanza wrote  a blog post about his experiences with racism and how they've affected his life.  Which made it feel really weird to just put out an episode with him that doesn't mention any of these issues. So the three of us went back into the (metaphorical) studio and recorded another episode mostly about his blog post, about racism, and about the state of the world. (As always, we are incapable of staying 100% on-topic, but we did pretty good.)  These aren't necessarily easy topics to discuss, but I think we did a respectful job of it, and I hope you find it interesting and worthwhile. The original podcast episode follows the new one, so you get two episodes in one.  Please listen to it. 

Adversarial Distancing, Episode 3: Two Conversations with Jowanza

Joel and Andrew break quarantine (metaphorically) to discuss treehouses, remote work, distance schooling, outschool.com, Joel's attempt to teach his daughter Python, old-school text adventures, socially-distanced eating, the Twitter UI, what happens to school in the fall, OKRs, and whether we should keep the economy closed or re-open it and kill people. Please listen to it.

Adversarial Distancing - Episode 2

in which Joel and Andrew briefly break quarantine to talk about Covid-19, social distancing, and the data science grift

Episode 5: The Legend of Plas Vander

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