There's a good chance that great data science is going on close to you, and that it's going toward making your city, state, country, and planet a better place. Not all the data science questions being tackled out there are about finding the sleekest new algorithm or billion-dollar company idea--there's a whole world of social data science that just wants to ... Show More
Jul 2020
So long, and thanks for all the fish
All good things must come to an end, including this podcast. This is the last episode we plan to release, and it doesn’t cover data science—it’s mostly reminiscing, thanking our wonderful audience (that’s you!), and marveling at how this thing that started out as a side project g ... Show More
35m 44s
Jul 2020
A Data Science Take on Open Policing Data
A few weeks ago, we put out a call for data scientists interested in issues of race and racism, or people studying how those topics can be studied with data science methods, should get in touch to come talk to our audience about their work. This week we’re excited to bring on Tod ... Show More
23m 44s
Jan 2022
Making Agile work for data science
Data scientists and engineers don’t always play well together. Data scientists will plan out a solution, carefully build models, test them in notebooks, then throw that solution over the wall to engineering. Implementing that solution can take months.Historically, the data scienc ... Show More
20m 52s
Jan 2022
Academics and Data Science Innovation with Dr. David Bader, Distinguished Professor and Director, Institute for Data Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology
The data science field is expanding because so many businesses and other institutions require skilled workers who can manage data as well as provide insights. Companies and students are clamoring for more academic programs. There is great need, but academic institutions are still ... Show More
39m 32s
Nov 2017
109: Business Consultancy in the Space of Data Science
In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, we will listen to the CEO and Founder of Business Science LLC, Matt Dancho. You will hear about combining data science with business and finance, learn why data science consultancies are in demand, and learn about the open-source s ... Show More
1h 3m
Mar 2020
Conservation International: Can Data Literally Save the World?
Land degradation, affecting 1.3 billion people worldwide, leads to famine, migration crises and more. Scientists are using data technology to identify how, and where, to intervene. -- This program is produced by Mission.org and brought to you by Splunk, the Data-to-Everything Pla ... Show More
15m 50s
Sep 2022
Justin Grimmer et al., "Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences" (Princeton UP, 2022)
From social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the social world. This textual data gives unprecedented insights into fundamental questions in the social sciences, humanities, and i ... Show More
56m 38s