Jake chats with Will Morel, Senior Director of Media Analytics at Ampush. Topics include the relative ordering of mega, giga, terra, and other multiples of bytes, how Will uses statistical techniques like conjoint analysis to understand the value of the various services Ampush offers and how Will is only a partial jerk.

Will Morel, Senior Director of Media Analytics at Ampush

RJMetrics Co-Founder and COO Jake Stein chats with analysts, data scientists, and other data people from companies like Twitch, Vimeo, and Weebly.

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In this episode, Jake does something a little different. Give Directly is a data driven charity that uses direct cash-transfers to make a difference in the lives of the extreme poor. This episode includes parts of the GiveDirectly semi-annual public call. Find out how you can give at www.givedirectly.org.

GiveDirectly Holiday Special

Jake interviews John Rauser, Data Scientist at Snapchat. Topics include how statistics would be better taught through computer science than math, how John optimized the design of AWS data centers using data analytics, and what it means to be a Fareologist.

John Rauser, Data Scientist at Snapchat

Jake interviews Sarah Catanzaro, Head of Data at Mattermark. Topics include the career trajectory of Somali Pirates, the classification algorithm that Mattermark uses to sort companies into different industries, and how adversary simulation and the analysis of an insurgency prepared her for building a database of private companies.

Sarah Catanzaro, Head of Data at Mattermark

Jake interviews Tim Wisniewski, Chief Data Officer for the City of Philadelphia. Tim tells us about the difference between thick and thin data, the challenges of writing ETL scripts when your source data is an LED display, and which data shouldn't be open to the public.

Tim Wisniewski, Chief Data Officer of the City of Philadelphia

Jake chats with Jason Maynard, Director of Data and Analytics at Zendesk. Topics include how to channel the tiger, what data science looks like at Zendesk, and how Jason's career advanced from counting things, to telling other people what to count, to figuring out what to count next.

Will Morel, Senior Director of Media Analytics at Ampush

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