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The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and the like, all from the perspective of applying critical thinking and the scientific method to evaluate the veracity of claims and efficacy of approaches.
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Our guest this week is Pardis Noorzad (@djpardis), former data science manager at Twitter and now Head of Data Science at Carbon Health. Our conversation spans a wide range of topics:
- the Tenderloin
- Carbon Health
- what Duran Duran has to do with Black History Month
- the "cold start problem" for becoming a DJ
- how long it takes to achieve domain expertise
- how many people there are in Canada
- how getting that first data science job is like DJ-ing
- loyalty
- the Go programming language
- the Hopper-Causey effect
- data science as quality control
Please listen to it.
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