Data Science Imposters Podcast

Alice and Bob have a secret that they want to share but they don’t want you or anyone else to know what it is.  In this episode we talk about cryptography at a high-level.  We touch on symmetry, hashing, and even steganography (not to be confused with calligraphy). How would you hide your secret?  Is Read More ...

This week we are joined by Miguel Garcia. Miguel is a friend of the show and an avid listener. It’s good that he joined us since we had lots of topics to discuss including: The Google Machine Learning tool – https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/ Language processing and Forensic Linguistics – Have your cake and eat it too – https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt:_Unabomber The Read More ...

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of code I take a look at my programming style and realize there’s none of it ‘Cause I’ve been copyin’ and pastin’ so long That even my momma thinks that my mind is gone But I ain’t never crossed a problem that didn’t deserve it Me Read More ...

Jordy and Antonio meet to discuss the massive data breach at Equifax.  In the United States and abroad, Equifax houses some of your most personal information allowing you to be recognized as a financially credible person to banks, companies, and others.  With a data breach of this magnitude, what should you do?  What happens next? Read More ...

In this episode, we learn how insurance companies are using a topic we talked about before – graphs – to determine which car insurance claims appear to be fraudulent.  We dive into the paper, ‘An expert system for detecting automobile insurance fraud using social network analysis’, published by Lovro ˇSubelj∗, ˇStefan Furlan, and Marko Bajec  available Read More ...

This week we learn about ‘terraformers’ and the three biggest ways that this company leverages data science.  Ezinne Uzo-Okoro is the founder of Terraformers.com, an online marketplace that empowers anyone to grow affordable fresh organic food anywhere and donate the excess to local food banks. Terraformers provides an entrepreneurial approach to improved nutrition, and feeding Read More ...

I stepped closer but I didn’t want to make a sound… Storytelling is a powerful tool that we use to explain, warn, and motivate.   In this episode, we talk about storytelling and invite our listeners to share their stories.  Listen to Jordy’s story.  Let us know what you think.  Email us if you have a Read More ...

Football season is right around the corner with preseason games well underway.  This week we spend time with @TheCoogene who teaches us all about fantasy football strategies, leagues, and choosing the right picks.  He even gives us three ‘sleeper’ picks for those of you that participate in fantasy football.  For those of you that care Read More ...

Gabriel (@s0lst1c3), a security engineer, joins us this week to discuss wireless security and his talk at this year’s #Defcon. ‘DEF CON is one of the oldest continuously running hacker conventions around, and one of the largest’.  Some great paraphrased snippets from the episode include ‘lawyers are like [law] hackers’, ‘getting domain admin access is Read More ...

We explore basic statistics and how skeptical you should be about them.  100% of the people that have heard this podcast agree.  (Hint: you should ask about our sample size)  We look forward to hearing your thoughts on how Statistics have betrayed you.

This week we interview a technology and data company startup entrepreneur. Dwaine explains how a company is born out of an idea, evolves to meet the demands of customers, and survives through the hard work, sacrifice, and dedication of its team. We discuss how the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, when the world seemed Read More ...

Take a look at NASA’s evolved antenna picture on our site. This is not your grandfather’s antenna. This design was created by a computer. If you can agree that in nature, the strongest survive then you could have developed the theory behind this next topic. In the early 1970s, John Hollande used what he knew Read More ...

Renee Teate – an accomplished data scientist, creator of the ‘Becoming A Data Scientist’ podcast and website, and the voice behind @BecomingDataSci twitter name – joins us to discuss her own journey to become a data scientist, her quest to get others to join the field of Data Science, and what excites her about the Read More ...

We’ve heard sayings like ‘if you tell me who your closest friends are, I can tell you who you are’ – the idea is that you and your friends have such similarities allowing you to form a group or cluster that may be different than strangers. In this episode, we explore how we would group Read More ...

Antonio and Jordy talk about artificial neural networks; these are algorithms that today seem synonymous with Artificial Intelligence.  These algorithms, first introduced in the late 1950s, which mimic how the brain works are now being used extensively.  We casually explore the history of ANNs, how these algorithms work, and what they can do.  We expect Read More ...

We have danced around an introduction of ourselves and the show.  Now that we have published 10 episodes, have a few more being edited, and have some great guests lined up we want to introduce ourselves and our thoughts about the show. @BecomingDataSci said it best.  If you haven’t already,check out her Twitter page and site.

Antonio plunges into the world of cryptocurrencies and buys enough Ether and Litecoin to lose $1,000 in a week.  Bitcoin, Ether, and Litecoin cryptocurrencies are built on blockchain technology. Blockchain technology is like a decentralized ledger.  While this is an exciting new frontier for the technology and these cryptocurrencies, there is still room for improvement. Read More ...

Jordy and Antonio discuss web scraping, APIs (application programming interface), and the benefits of programming solutions.  They also talk about the challenges of combining data across multiple data sources (even if those data sets are open). Beautiful soup is the premier solution for web scraping in Python.  The following is an article that you will Read More ...

In this episode, Antonio begins by discussing the seven hour car ride to Cape Code, MA and the eight hours spent on the return trip. This leads into a discussion about how Google and other companies use graphs to give us directions.  Here’s a simplified graph created with Graph Online.   You can also use Read More ...

Data Science Imposters take their show on the road to Cartagena, Colombia and partner with the Unobjective podcast team for their first collaboration.  We tweeted this picture after recording and this one in our ad-hoc studio. We decided to spend our time together talking about the way that we make decisions.  We covered the following: Read More ...