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 […]

Hi Students, Data visualization leverages the same cognitive processing system that evolved to spot savanna cats skulking in tall grass, recognize emotions in other human faces, and distinguish between food that is and is not safe to eat. We’ve evolved to perceive the world, and as primates, a lot of that perception is visual. The […]

Hi Students, This week Rachel will cover machine learning. I hope you guys love the material as much as I do. Well, maybe not as much as I do… I spent the better part of a decade writing a book on how to build machine learning tools. Since I’ve spent some time thinking about making machine […]