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Half Stack Data Science

Half Stack Data Science

Half Stack Data Science

"Half Stack Data Science" is a podcast by David Asboth and Shaun McGirr about the realities of Data Science in the enterprise business world.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Half Stack Data Science episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Half Stack Data Science for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Half Stack Data Science episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Half Stack Data Science - S03E08 - The market view of data education - with Richie Cotton
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03/11/24 • 46 min

A reminder that David's book, Solve Any Data Analysis Problem, is out later this year and you can already buy it and read it in its draft form as part of Manning's Early Access Program. If you want to practise your data skills on real world problems and learn a reusable framework to use on any project in the future, this book is for you.

Find out more here: https://www.manning.com/books/solve-any-data-analysis-problem

Now onto today's episode. We're continuing our series of conversations about data education and in this episode we spoke to Richie Cotton.

Richie is a data evangelist at DataCamp. He started his career as a data scientist, working in industries from chemical health and safety to debt collection to proteomics. After joining DataCamp in 2016, he switched to teaching data and AI skills. He has created ten courses on data science that have been taken by over 700k learners, and worked with instructors to create over 50 courses that have been taken by millions of learners. Richie has also written two books and R programming, Learning R and Testing R Code.

In his current role, Richie hosts the DataFramed podcast and runs the DataCamp webinar program, as well as creating tutorials and cheat sheets for data and AI skills.

We spoke to Richie about how DataCamp's offering and focus has changed over time to meet market demands, with some inevitable comments about Python vs R, what the impact of generative AI has been on data education, and what the future holds.

You can find Richie and his work on various parts of the internet:

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Half Stack Data Science - S03E04 - The language of data literacy - with Valerie Logan
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09/17/23 • 50 min

Continuing our series of conversations with data educators, in this episode we spoke to Valerie Logan.

Founding The Data Lodge in 2019, Valerie is as committed to data literacy as it gets. She believes that in today's digital society, data literacy is not just a work skill- it's a life skill. With advisory services, train-the-trainer bootcamps, an extensive resource library and community services at The Data Lodge, Valerie is certifying the world’s first Data Literacy Program Leads across commercial, nonprofit and public sectors.

In 2022, The Data Lodge was recognized by CDO Magazine as one of the "Top 25 Data Startups to Watch in 2022". Valerie has more than 28 years of experience, including two decades of global consulting across industries, and five years of applied experience in the telecommunications industry at both field and enterprise levels. She holds a B.S. in Math from SUNY College at Buffalo and an M.S. in Applied Math with a concentration in Operations Research from New Mexico State.

We talked to Valerie about how literacy in data is like literacy in any language, how to spread data literacy effectively in a business, what are some obstacles to doing this, how you measure the success of a data literacy program, and of course the effect of the emergence of AI on all of the above. Valerie even made a custom Scrabble board just for this episode, you can see that on our website halfstackdatascience.com

If you enjoy our podcast, please consider rating and reviewing it on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Half Stack Data Science - 003: Identifying Value in Data Science
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08/20/18 • 34 min

In episode 3 of the Half Stack Data Science podcast, Shaun and David talk about how to identify the value of a Data Science project. Assuming you are free from some constraints that historically hold back the progress of Data Science teams, how do you decide what to work on?
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Half Stack Data Science - 002: The Insight Journey

002: The Insight Journey

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08/11/18 • 36 min

In the second episode of the Half Stack Data Science podcast, David and Shaun talk about the strategy companies can employ to become more data-driven, using what they call "the Insight Journey".
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Half Stack Data Science - 001: What is Half Stack Data Science?
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08/11/18 • 37 min

In the first episode of the Half Stack Data Science, David Asboth and Dr. Shaun McGirr answer the question "what is Half Stack Data Science"?
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In this episode we bring you our talk from the recent Data Science Festival in London. Our talk was titled "Bridging the data science supply-demand gap" and it was all about topics that will be familiar to listeners. We tackled the question "how is it that there is an abundance of junior data scientists and open data science positions yet the job market is unsatisfactory for both sides"? A huge thank you to Data Science Festival for having us, and for allowing us to share the audio with our audience!

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Half Stack Data Science - 006: Interview with Allison Nau

006: Interview with Allison Nau

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12/17/18 • 47 min

In episode 6, we bring you our interview with Allison Nau, an experienced data leader previously MD of Cox Automotive Data Solutions, and prior to that Product Director at LexisNexis. We would love your feedback on the show so far! Get in touch with us via Twitter (@davidasboth and @shaunmcgirr) or email [email protected]
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Half Stack Data Science - 005: Estimating Time

005: Estimating Time

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09/23/18 • 23 min

In this episode, David and Shaun answer the question on every stakeholder's lips: how long will this Data Science project take? Their answer may surprise you! We would love your feedback on the show so far! Get in touch with us via Twitter (@davidasboth and @shaunmcgirr) or email [email protected]
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Half Stack Data Science - 004: Getting Data

004: Getting Data

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09/02/18 • 34 min

In this episode, Shaun and David talk some more about the rationale behind this podcast, and about how hard it is to get your hands on data in the first place.
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Half Stack Data Science - S03E09 - Statistical rethinking - with Richard McElreath
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04/21/24 • 65 min

A reminder that David's book, Solve Any Data Analysis Problem, is out later this year and you can already buy it and read it in its draft form as part of Manning's Early Access Program. If you want to practise your data skills on real world problems and learn a reusable framework to use on any project in the future, this book is for you.

Find out more here: ⁠https://www.manning.com/books/solve-any-data-analysis-problem⁠

Now onto today's episode.

In this episode, we spoke to Richard McElreath.

Richard is an anthropologist focused on the role of culture in human evolution and adaptation. He is currently the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. A major focus of the department is integrating theory with data analysis and study design, and Richard spends much of his time supporting his colleagues in that way. He is the author of Statistical Rethinking, a popular Bayesian statistics textbook and video course.

We spoke to Richard about the state of scientific research, parallels between the problems in scientific research and doing data analysis in the business world, and to quote Richard, how, if we are very careful and try very hard, we might not completely mislead ourselves.

Richard's departmental page: https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/richard-mcelreath

Richard's blog: https://elevanth.org/blog

Richard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rlmcelreath

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FAQ

How many episodes does Half Stack Data Science have?

Half Stack Data Science currently has 24 episodes available.

What topics does Half Stack Data Science cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts and Technology.

What is the most popular episode on Half Stack Data Science?

The episode title 'S03E06 - Reimagining data analytics training - with James Cotton' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Half Stack Data Science?

The average episode length on Half Stack Data Science is 42 minutes.

How often are episodes of Half Stack Data Science released?

Episodes of Half Stack Data Science are typically released every 30 days, 21 hours.

When was the first episode of Half Stack Data Science?

The first episode of Half Stack Data Science was released on Aug 11, 2018.

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