Episode 31: The Data Of Art

The crew explores the world of using data science to create art.

Go make something beautiful:

• Scott Murray, Assistant Professor of Design at University of San Francisco
• Gregory Matthews, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Loyola University
• Loren Madsen, Data art pioneer
• Made by Numbers, a data sculpture from HUSH
• Background music during Scott, Greg and Loren’s interviews by Kangaroo MusiQue

Made By Numbers: A Data Sculpture "Making Of" from HUSH on Vimeo.

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Episode 30: The Data of Love and Sex

Is there really data in love? Can we quantify sex? Find out this week! Also, we go behind the scenes at craft brewery Thirsty Planet. 

Huge thanks to our guests!

• Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, and his NYT op-ed Searching for Sex
• Nicholas Wolfinger, and his Goldilocks Theory of marriage
• Tyrell Elliott of Thirsty Planet Brewery

Music Credits

• UCSD Neurology Program's parody: Up All Night (to Get Data)
• Paniq “Lovelorn”
• T.A.G.E.O “jasycompily”
• T.A.G.E.O “oldtrip7”
• T.A.G.E.O “J873”

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Episode 29: Ashley Is A Better Host Than Jonathon

This week the team and special guest host Ashley McNamara interviews Ben Wellington of IQuantNY and discusses the data science of shark attacks and Greece's troubles.

Links to the stories we discussed in this week's episode:

Shout outs!

• Repeat Guest Host Ashley McNamara rocks!
• Thanks to Ben Wellington (@IQuantNY) for the interview!

Articles!

1. See Where Most Shark Attacks Happen in the United States
2. Could Data Science Have Saved Greece?

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Episode 28: PhDs Are The New BAs

This week the team talks with Rick Turoczy (@turoczy on Twitter) of the Portland startup scene, discuss the taxonomy of hipster coffee shop names, and how PhDs can get into data science.

Links to the stories we discussed in this week's episode:

Shout outs!

1. Thanks to DataElixir, a weekly collection of the best data science news, resources, and inspirations from around the web.
2. Thanks to Rick Turoczy for the interview!

Articles!

1. The Taxonomy of Hipster Coffee Shop Names
2. What PhDs do wrong (and right!) when applying for Data Science jobs

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Episode 25: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Artist Overlords

This week Jonathon, Chris, and Vidya Spandana discuss the world of data from polling to coins to creativity.

Links to the stories we discussed in this week's episode:

1. Machine Vision Algorithm Chooses the Most Creative Paintings in History
2. The Shark from Jaws is More Popular than all of the 2016 Presidential Candidates
3. Scientists dismissed "hot streaks" in sports for decades. They were wrong.

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Episode 23: Political Science Rulez

This week Chris overcompensates for his love of political science while Jonathon continues to be unimpressive.

Links to the stories we discussed in this week's episode:

1. Republicans hate generic women they've never heard of
2. This was the biggest political science study of last year. It was a complete fraud.
3. Markov 2 Chainz
4. Dear Madison Avenue: Set My Data Scientists Free

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Episode 22: Beer For Dinner

This week Chris and Jonathon are joined by Kenny Gorman and Ashley McNamara of ObjectRocket and Rackspace.

Links to the stories we discussed in this week's episode:

1. Kenny talks about his Pi-driven beer machine!
2. Justices’ Opinions Grow in Size, Accessibility and Testiness, Study Finds
3. Microsoft thinks I'm old
4. The ‘Moneyball’ Revolution Hits Middle School

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Episode 21: Bob Ross Is My Spirit Animal

This week the guys (and gal) talk about Bob Ross, racism, beers, and the terror that is fruit-based beer.

Links to the stories we discussed in this week's episode:

1. Beer preference predictor
2. Less Noise but More Money in Data Science
3. People Google Weird Stuff
4. A Statistical Analysis of the Work of Bob Ross

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Episode 20: Don't Let Baseball Ruin Statistics!

This week the guys talk about baseball, beer, and everything else!

Links to the stories we discussed in this week's episode:

1. Foodbot: AI for lunch
2. Data Science enters the beer age
3. If Algorithms Know All, How Much Should Humans Help?
4. Hunting the mafia with data science
5. Don’t Let Statistics Ruin Baseball
6. All Readers Must Die - Even Game of Thrones Readers Aren’t Spared from Death

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Episode 19: Morning Drinking Edition

This week Chris and Jonathon talk about beer reviews, traffic, Game of Thrones, and more!

Also, NPR is looking for a few good podcast episodes!

Links to the stories we discussed in this week's episode:

1. What If Neighboring Skyscrapers Could Cancel Out Each Other’s Shadows?
2. The Automatic Beer Snob
   • King James Programming
3. Exploring linguistic patterns in best-selling book series
4. Predicting Traffic Jams an Hour in Advance

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Episode 18: You Know Nothing, Jon Snow

This week Chris and Jonathon talk about March Madness (again), tracking whales, predicting the death of characters in Game of Thrones (no spoilers), and more!

Also, NPR is looking for a few good podcast episodes!

Links to the stories we discussed in this week's episode:

1. Your Priest is Watching you Pee. Smart Ass Gadgets from a Data-Driven Dystopia
2. The Math of March Madness
3. The truth about traffic
4. Bayesian survival analysis for "Game of Thrones"
5. Data science saves the whales
6. Uber: The Big Data Company

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Episode 17: Get Back To Work You Slackers!

This week the crew talk about March Madness, tracking basketball, the quantification of Wall Street, and much more.

Also, NPR is looking for a few good podcast episodes!

Links to the stories we discussed in this week's episode:

1. This Guy’s Quest to Track Every Shot in the NBA Changed Basketball Forever
2. Here’s how much of your company’s money you’re wasting while you sneak off to watch March Madness
3. Antebellum Data Journalism: Or, How Big Data Busted Abe Lincoln
4. All of you are old or dead. Just kidding!
5. Bridgewater Is Said to Start Artificial-Intelligence Team
6. Beautiful data art tells you how much air pollution is killing you

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Episode 16: Algorithm Aversion

This week the team talks about Jonathon's new ISIS analysis, iPython 3, Indian Food, Algorithm Aversion, and more!

Links to the stories we discussed in this week's episode:

1. The ISIS Twitter Census
2. IPython 3.0 Released!
3. Data Science Figures Out Why Indian Food Is So Damn Good
4. Embrace Your Inner Algorithm
   • Algorithm aversion
5. Watch zombies slowly devour the US...with data!
   • Kill With Zombies
6. An Algorithm Can Help You Shop The Entire Wardrobe From “house Of Cards”

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Episode 15: DJ Patil Joins The Cast Of The West Wing

This week Chris and Jonathon talk about DJ Patil joining the cast of the West Wing, big data on cows, not being sketchy with user data, and more!

Links to the stories we discussed in this week's episode:

1. DJ Patil In The WhiteHouse
2. NYT Says Shut Up Already About The Singularity
3. Foursquare's Dennis Crowley: Don't Be Sketchy With User Data
4. Big Cows, Big Data
   • Piotr Walaszek
5. Aaron Schock's Instagram Tells Tale Of High Life And Taxpayer-funded Travels
6. Big Sports Gaming Data

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Episode 14: Data Science Is Dead!

This week the crew talks about the not-so-secret secrets of Hacker News, UPS drivers, love, and how data science is going the way of the Dodo. Kinda.

Links to the resources we discussed in this week's episode!

1. Fifty Shades of Grey: By the numbers!
   • Jokes!
2. Automating the Data Scientists
   • Airline Report
3. Finding love with the Drake Equation
   • Risk sensitivity as an evolutionary adaptation
   • Don't try, settle
4. How a Lone Hacker Shredded the Myth of Crowdsourcing
5. What Makes Hacker News Fame
6. At UPS, the Algorithm Is the Driver

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Episode 13: Keep Data Science Weird

This week the team explores automating hookups, data science jargon, finding Waldo, and more!

Links to the resources we discussed in this week's episode!

1. Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces
2. Data science buzz words and jargon demystified
3. Where's Waldo? Algorithm Helps You Find Him
4. Scientist made up climate change with fake data! Ok not really
5. Crowdflower 2015 Data Scientist Report

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Episode 12: Partially Deflated

Cheating! Infectious disease! Dystopian snowpocalypse! Also Chris and Jonathon drink beer and make some jokes.

1. Deflate-gate: Data science says the Patriots are big fat cheaters...or does it?
   1. Yes they are
   2. Maybe they're not
2. Microsoft's Revolution Analytics Acquisition: Good for the R Community?
3. Snowpocalypse -- I mean Snowmageddon -- 2015!
   1. Snowfall by dog size
   2. Why meteorologists got it wrong
   3. Or maybe this is why they got it wrong
4. When Grandmasters Blunder
5. Why kids are getting the measles
   1. In California
   2. In your state
6. The algorithmic CEO

Episode 11: Mario's Black Box Algorithm Of Death

This week the guys breakdown silos and blue sky some new paradigms in turn-key data solutions for social good. Want to join in? Discuss this episode on DataTau!

Links to the resources we discussed in this week's episode!

1. Banking Start-Ups Adopt New Tools for Lending
2. Mario is now self-aware, thanks to artificial intelligence
3. Alibaba pushes into investment world
4. The Grade Level of Presidential Speeches
5. The Code We Can’t Control / The Black Box Society
6. Hear the Year 2014 Through a Data-Driven Instrument

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Episode 10: The One about Sarah Connor

This week Jonathon and Chris discuss how data affects education, emojis in politics, time-traveling killer robots, and more!

Links to the resources we discussed in this week's episode!

1. Turns out women probably can predict the gender of their babies
2. The Future Of Money, Among Other Things…
3. Which emojis are tweeted at politicians?
4. New algorithm could enable household robots to better identify objects in cluttered environments
5. Could you be an offensive tackle? Kid predicts his brother’s college football chances with data science
6. Artificial intelligence experts sign open letter to protect mankind from machines
7. Machine Learning algos choose who your kid sits next to in class

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Episode 9: The One That Will Totally Change Your Life

Get ready to have your mind blown. The guys dig into all the best ways you can expand your data science horizons.

Links to the resources we discussed in this week's episode!

1. Books
   1. Data Science
      1. Creating a Data Driven Culture
      2. Machine Learning for Hackers
      3. Programming Collective Intelligence
   2. General Data
      1. The Victory Lab
      2. Money Ball
      3. The Signal and the Noise
   3. Programming
      1. Code Complete
      2. The Phoenix Project
      3. Design Patterns
2. MOOCs
   1. Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course
   2. Lynda's data science playlist
   3. Intro to data science on Udacity
   4. Thinkful's data science course
      1. Online masters degree courses
         1. UC Berkley
         2. Carnegie Mellon
         3. Northwestern
3. Side projects
   1. Kaggle
   2. Email Chris and Jonathon
4. Blogs
   1. yhat
   2. David Behnke
   3. Walking Randomly
   4. Hunch
   5. Simply Statistics
   6. FastML
5. NBViewer
6. Work with an expert
7. Stack Overflow
   1. Sites in the Stack Exchange network dedicated to data science
      1. Data Science
      2. Stats
      3. Computer Science
8. GitHub
   1. Open Data Science Masters
   2. Hilary Mason
   3. Sean Taylor
9. Twitter
   1. Andrew Flowers
   2. DJ Patil
   3. Hilary Mason
   4. Chris Diehl
   5. Sebastian Raschka
   6. Cam Davidson-Pilon
   7. Kirk Borne
   8. Carla Gentry