Hi Students, When Rachel and I started this class, we realized that there were a wide rage of topics that we wanted to cover. Ethics was one of the topics that kept popping up. However, for a variety of reasons, we didn’t get to cover the topic in class. So I thought I’d write about […]
Hi Students, Sorry for the gap in posts. Last week was the Research at Google summit in Mountain View. As an aside, if you work at a remote office, as some of you will, you will occasionally have to dock with the mothership. These periods are often a blur of work and networking, and sometimes […]
Hi Students, Last week Steve Lohr and Andy Lehren from the New York Times came in to talk about data journalism. Given how amazing that lecture was, I thought you might want more. For more of Andy, you can watch this interview of Andy talking about investigative journalism. For more about data journalism you should check out […]
Each week Ethan Rouen, a student in the class, will post on a topic of his interest based on class lectures. Ethan is a Ph.D. student in accounting at Columbia Business School and a columnist for Fortune.com. With Andy Lehren and Steve Lohr speaking to the class this week, I finally have the opportunity to […]
Hi Students, I will start with… a map! The map above shows the distribution of slavery in the south, and it’s been making its way around the web. I love this map for a number of different reasons, and if you’re a data nerd you probably do too. First, it’s an old thing that resembles lots of new things. Maps […]
Each week Ethan Rouen, a student in the class, will post on a topic of his interest based on class lectures. Ethan is a Ph.D. student in accounting at Columbia Business School and a columnist for Fortune.com. “Feasibility,” “Restatement,” “Litigation,” “Where,” “Acquisitions,” “Technological,” “Update,” “Words,” “Considered,” “Pooling” Some investigators think those 10 words will help […]
My book (with Cathy O’Neil), Doing Data Science, is now available on ebook and the print version will be available next week! The book is based on last year’s Introduction to Data Science class. In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, O’Reilly (our publisher) is offering 50% off books by women, and so because we’re women, […]
