Playing with Tensorflow
Anyone that creates neural nets in probably aware of (and uses) Tensorflow. It’s Google’s open source library for machine learning – it eases the creation and calculation of models using CPUs and GPUs....
View ArticleGoogle launches AI education site
On Wednesday Google announced a free set of AI classes hosted on https://ai.google/. It was originally their internal training materials but they thought it would be nice to share. For the last day or...
View ArticleFree (and cheap) ways to learn Python
Over the years students have asked me how they can get more Python skills. In the past I’ve been copying and pasting a version of what is below and emailing it to anyone interested. This is by no means...
View ArticleBuilding Bridges
For a couple weeks in May/June I’ll be traveling with a group of students to a small community outside of Cochabamba, Bolivia. We’ll (they’ll?) be building a bridge to make travel to/from the community...
View ArticlePython Libraries for Data Science
I came across this pretty great collection of data science Python libraries. I’ve used nearly all of them but a couple are new to me. It’s not clear if I will ever use PyDot, but I will absolutely be...
View ArticleSome of my favorites from the NBER IT and Digitization Summer Institute
I recently went to the NBER IT & Digitization Summer Institute. I was there to do a poster session on the new ridesharing bias paper I am working on with Jorge Mejia. We also wrote a short LSE...
View ArticleTime to switch to Python 3
In a recent post, I gave some advice on how to learn Python for free. At the top of the post I lightly touched on the Python 2 vs Python 3 debate. I code in Python 2 mostly because that’s what I...
View ArticleSCM421 Supply Chain Analytics
During the fall semester I teach a class called Supply Chain Analytics. We teach modeling skills, data cleaning, optimization (using both Solver and OpenSolver), and other random topics in Excel. We...
View ArticleAn educating week
This has been a week of education for me. Three separate random events reminded me of how much I still have to learn about the world. I was wandering around the interwebs yesterday and came across this...
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Grasshopper for learning JavaScript
Welcome to 2019 everyone! (Yes, I know it’s February but I’ve been doing things. Give me a break.) This year I thought it would be fun to learn JavaScript. “Why?”, you ask? Because I’m a nerd. Don’t...
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