Linear Digressions

289 Episodes

1. Network effects re-release: when the power of a public health measure lies in widespread adoption

   Published: 15/03/2020
2. Causal inference when you can't experiment: difference-in-differences and synthetic controls

   Published: 09/03/2020
3. Better know a distribution: the Poisson distribution

   Published: 02/03/2020
4. The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis

   Published: 23/02/2020
5. Interesting technical issues prompted by GDPR and data privacy concerns

   Published: 17/02/2020
6. Thinking of data science initiatives as innovation initiatives

   Published: 10/02/2020
7. Building a curriculum for educating data scientists: Interview with Prof. Xiao-Li Meng

   Published: 02/02/2020
8. Running experiments when there are network effects

   Published: 27/01/2020
9. Zeroing in on what makes adversarial examples possible

   Published: 20/01/2020
10. Unsupervised Dimensionality Reduction: UMAP vs t-SNE

    Published: 13/01/2020
11. Data scientists: beware of simple metrics

    Published: 05/01/2020
12. Communicating data science, from academia to industry

    Published: 30/12/2019
13. Optimizing for the short-term vs. the long-term

    Published: 23/12/2019
14. Interview with Prof. Andrew Lo, on using data science to inform complex business decisions

    Published: 16/12/2019
15. Using machine learning to predict drug approvals

    Published: 08/12/2019
16. Facial recognition, society, and the law

    Published: 02/12/2019
17. Lessons learned from doing data science, at scale, in industry

    Published: 25/11/2019
18. Varsity A/B Testing

    Published: 18/11/2019
19. The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists: Growing Careers

    Published: 11/11/2019
20. The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists: Recruiting and Hiring Data Scientists

    Published: 04/11/2019