Linear Digressions

Episodes

1. 20

   So long, and thanks for all the fish

   All good things must come to an end, including this podcast. This is the last episode we plan to release, and it doesn’t cover data science—it’s mostly reminiscing, thanking our wonderful audience (that’s you!), and marveling at how this thing that started out as a side project grew into a huge...

   Jul 26, 2020
2. 19

   A reality check on AI-driven medical assistants

   The data science and artificial intelligence community has made amazing strides in the past few years to algorithmically automate portions of the healthcare process. This episode looks at two computer vision algorithms, one that diagnoses diabetic retinopathy and another that classifies liver...

   Jul 19, 2020
3. 18

   A Data Science Take on Open Policing Data

   A few weeks ago, we put out a call for data scientists interested in issues of race and racism, or people studying how those topics can be studied with data science methods, should get in touch to come talk to our audience about their work. This week we’re excited to bring on Todd Hendricks, Bay...

   Jul 13, 2020
4. 17

   Procella: YouTube's super-system for analytics data storage

   This is a re-release of an episode that originally ran in October 2019. If you’re trying to manage a project that serves up analytics data for a few very distinct uses, you’d be wise to consider having custom solutions for each use case that are optimized for the needs and constraints of that use...

   Jul 6, 2020
5. 16

   The Data Science Open Source Ecosystem

   Open source software is ubiquitous throughout data science, and enables the work of nearly every data scientist in some way or another. Open source projects, however, are disproportionately maintained by a small number of individuals, some of whom are institutionally supported, but many of whom…

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   Jun 29, 2020
6. 15

   Rock the ROC Curve

   This is a re-release of an episode that first ran on January 29, 2017. This week: everybody's favorite WWII-era classifier metric! But it's not just for winning wars, it's a fantastic go-to metric for all your classifier quality needs.

   Jun 21, 2020
7. 14

   Criminology and data science

   This episode features Zach Drake, a working data scientist and PhD candidate in the Criminology, Law and Society program at George Mason University. Zach specializes in bringing data science methods to studies of criminal behavior, and got in touch after our last episode (about racially…

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   Jun 15, 2020