Monthly Archives: September 2012
My Data is Bigger Than Yours
I buried this in a p.s. at the end of my previous post, and I think it’s sufficiently funny (by which I mean, hysterical) that I need to bring it to the top so you don’t miss it. Brian Dalessandro, this week’s guest speaker, sent me this video that he and his data science teammate, […]
On Inspiring Students and Being Human
Dear Students, Lest you think (yes, I know I used that turn of phrase in posts before. I like it.) that I am bragging about my character traits (in which case you don’t know me well enough yet- I never brag, and who isn’t human?), wipe that thought from your mind, and read on. On […]
Week 4: The Data Science Process, k-means, Classifiers, Logistic Regression and Evaluation
Each week Cathy O’Neil blogs about the class. Cross-posted from mathbabe.org This week our guest lecturer for the Columbia Data Science class was Brian Dalessandro. Brian works at Media6Degrees as a VP of Data Science, and he’s super active in the research community. He’s also served as co-chair of the KDD competition. Before Brian started, […]
Tow Teas, Thursdays, 5-7pm
Kaushik, a student in our class, who is also taking a class at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School, “Frontiers of Computational Journalism” (which sounds interesting!) sends along the following: Dear Rachel, In response to Phillips’s post about the talk in the Sociology department on Thursday, I thought I might […]
Computational Social Science talk on Thursday, September 27th
Phillip, a student in our class writes Dear Rachel, We are running a workshop at the sociology department, which hosts Professor Michael Macy on Thursday. Please see the invitation below. This talk might be of interest for
Human Ingenuity
Read the full paper here: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf Presented, in part, as inspiration: observe the elegance and simplicity of the model; the deep insight that solved a problem as massive as ranking sites on the web with a solution involving eigenvectors. Presented, also, for the student discussion on Anderson’s article.
Course Announcements (Tuesday 9/25)
— Room: We have a bigger room! Reminder that going forward we are in 313 Fayerweather — Guest lecturer: Tomorrow’s guest lecturer is Brian Dalessandro, VP of Data Science at Media 6 Degrees (m6d). He will be teaching “Classification, Logistic Regression and Evaluation”. From their site, “Brian joined m6d as head of the data science […]
