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Adversarial Distancing - Episode 1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 40:01

in which Joel and Andrew briefly break quarantine to talk about Covid-19, social distancing, and the data science grift

Episode 21: The Cold Start Problem for Becoming a DJ | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:14

Episode 21: The Cold Start Problem for Becoming a DJ

Episode 20: Churn! Churn! Churn! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:09:52

Our guest this episode is Carl Gold (@carl24k), Chief Data Scientist at Zuora and author of the forthcoming book Fighting Churn with Data. Use the discount code podadvl19 to save some unspecified amount on it. Topics include * churn * writing a book * churn * running a subscription business * churn * domain expertise * p-hacking * churn * how Joel picks what song to use for the podcast intro * churn

Episode 19: Writing the Same Book Twice | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:34

On this episode, Andrew is joined by Joel Grus (@joelgrus), the author of Data Science from Scratch, whose second edition just came out. They discuss spreadsheets, writing a book, Python 3, type annotations, Jupyter notebooks, reproducibility, and what it's like to do standup comedy at a conference that has a code of conduct. Please listen to it.

Episode 18: Never Insult a Pigeon Driving a Bus | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:08:29

Episode 18: Never Insult a Pigeon Driving a Bus

Episode 17: Josh Wills | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:13:09

Adversarial Learning is back from its extended hiatus! Our guest is famous data scientist Josh Wills. We discuss why Josh is a famous data scientist, what it's like working at Slack, data science conferences, NLP's "imagenet moment", whether Joel should remove the MapReduce chapter from the 2nd edition of Data Science from Scratch, and which is the best Rush album. Please listen to it.

Episode 16: My Code of Ethics Will Forbid YAML | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:18