Renee interviews Randal S. Olson, Senior Data Scientist in the Institute for Biomedial Informatics at UPenn, about his path to becoming a data scientist, his interesting data science blog posts, and his work with non-data-scientists and students.
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Mentioned in the episode:
bytecode
Dr. Kenneth Stanley at the University of Central Florida
evolutionary algorithm
Michigan State University Artificial Intelligence
BEACON NSF Science and Technology Center at MSU
Randal S. Olson publications
Randy’s blog
Data Is Beautiful Reddit
traveling salesman problem
Google Maps API
Moneyball (book)
Data Science Handbook (book)
Weka
scikit-learn
version control
Randy on:TwitterLinkedINgithubPatreon
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