Howdy! I did a Q A with the wonderful Coursera Community that I wanted to pass along. It was a fun exercise, as it helped me crystallize my thinking on a range of hiring- and career-related topics. Read on for deeply... Continue Reading
I was interested in whether woke companies donate disproportionately to Democrats, or if their embrace of progressive causes is one big branding exercise. The answer? Kinda both (but mostly branding)! I m unbelievably proud to say that my findings were published... Continue Reading
EDIT: Thanks to commenter gruddock, I learned that the conference organizers took down the talks from YouTube. Please see here for the slides. They include complete speaker notes. I recently attended the Data Science Innovation in eLearning Conference (hosted by Udemy... Continue Reading
Note: This post assumes a passing familiarity with linear regression. Aside from that, it s a highly applied intro to D-in-D regression and panel data techniques. In Due Time In one of my favorite episodes of Futurama, the universe experiences time skips. ... Continue Reading
I wrote a post for Inside Big Data on transitioning into Data Science a topic I m actually qualified to give advice on! It’s a familiar dilemma. You’ve done your research, read some books, taken some online classes – and at long... Continue Reading
Why Even Try, Man? I recently came upon Brian Granger and Jake VanderPlas s Altair, a promising young visualization library. Altair seems well-suited to addressing Python s ggplot envy, and its tie-in with JavaScript s Vega-Lite grammar means that as the latter develops new... Continue Reading
Note: In this post, I assume some familiarity with PyMC. If you need to get up to speed in a hurry and you re familiar with linear regression, go here for a tutorial. Alternatively, you can read for the methodological intuition,... Continue Reading
Contextualizing My Vendetta I ve been on a streak of bad flights lately. The last two, in particular, were horrible and not horrible in the standard cramped seats/rubbery food/my-God-that-smell way. Horrible due to (A) an unexplained cancellation, which turned my 12-hour... Continue Reading
I. I recently wandered down a Google Black Hole on The Skills Gap, hoping to see if economists had come to a consensus on whether it was a real thing or Convenient-sounding Story. While there, I found an interview that... Continue Reading
I. Upon completing college, I joined the Treasury Department. (No, I didn’t.) But I did help them bolster the once-proud, then-crumbling pillars of the American Economy: too-big-to-fail banks and car companies. Concretely, I bought a Ford Focus. I’d read Consumer... Continue Reading