Surveillance Capitalism and the working data scientist

A data scientist reviews Shoshana Luboff’s book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Christo Wilson Discusses the Ethics of Online Behavioral Experiments

Originally posted on Data for Breakfast:
On May 1 of 2019, Dr. Christo Wilson gave a talk on his investigation into online behavioral experiments. The talk was based on a piper entitled Who’s the Guinea Pig? Investigating Online A/B/n Tests in-the-Wild, which he and his students gave at the 2019 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Atlanta,…

Black In AI workshop call for papers

Participate in the Black in AI workshop

Black data science book giveaway

Celebrating a data science initiative at Atlanta University Center

Remembering Bill Jenkins

The statistical who exposed the Tuskegee experiments

Black history month book giveaway!

In honor of the U.S. Black History Month commemoration, I am giving away two copies of the book W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America. What do you have to do to be a winner? Be one of the first to create and send in a visualization inspired by the set of […]

Building Thousands of Reproducible ML Models with pipe, the Automattic Machine Learning Pipeline

Read on data.blog/2019/01/08/building-thousands-of-reproducible-ml-models-with-pipe-the-automattic-machine-learning-pipeline/ My colleague Demet Dagdelen explains the process of building machine learning models at scale for customer insights at Automattic

The Little Shop of Data Science Stories

I am happy to announce that The Little Shop of Stories bookstore in Decatur, GA is awesome for data science! A few blocks away from us, it is such a regional treasure for children’s books and events. Diane has brought game changing books, authors, and programs to Atlanta and environs. But last week I was […]

The science of data science

The Foundations of Data Science Boot Camp given last week (August 27 – 31) at the Simons Institute in Berkeley explored how pure mathematics and theoretical computer science are providing actionable insights that the working data scientist can use — or at least ponder. I found the talk below by Ravi Kannan useful in pointing out how dimensionality reduction […]

Sage advice on visualization

My colleague Boris Gorelik continues to deliver the insights of a data science sage. You should study carefully his recent EuroSciPy 2018 talk “Data visualization: from default to efficient” Then check out his notes on how to continuously improve a talk.