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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...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticlePlaying 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 ArticleWould you host someone 357 days a year?
In December, Peter Gomber, Rob Kauffman, Bruce Weber and I had a paper accepted to the Journal of Management Information Systems entitled On the Fintech Revolution: Interpreting the Forces of...
View ArticleKaggle Data Science Survey 2017
Kaggle is a fantastic company. They are a fun place to get experience dealing with realistic data science problems. You compete with others trying to get the best model. Sometimes it’s “just” for...
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Targeted Ads on Facebook
I don’t think it will come as a surprise to anyone that Facebook delivers targeted ads. That’s how they make money – they take all this beautiful data you are giving them and show you ads they think...
View ArticleIs data worth more than oil?
After a long hiatus, I’m trying to bring back Thoughts on Business. Rather than my ambitious one-post-a-day goal, I’m opting for a more realistic once a week. This week’s post comes at the intersection...
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Tuition Increases
I’m an avid (read: obsessive) reader of FiveThirtyEight and when I saw this recent article on the reasons why tuition is increasing I was immediately drawn in. I have no idea how many times in the last...
View ArticleA great way to visualize student debt
In my visit to Georgetown this year I’ve been tasked with teaching two six-week MBA electives in the Spring. I’ve been toying with the idea of offering a data visualization course since I think it’s a...
View ArticleCan’t we just have driverless cars already?
I’ve probably mentioned this before but I’m a huge fan of driverless cars. You give me the opportunity to buy one right now and I’d almost surely do it (I don’t know the price so I can’t fully commit...
View ArticleA Beautiful Introduction to Coding
With the new semester a few weeks away I’ve been going through last year’s notes. This usually results in a few articles/cases being added and some dropped (yes students, I do actually listen and...
View ArticleBig data meets transportation
FiveThirtyEight has a new podcast out called What’s the Point. It’s an interesting weekly podcast that all data nerds should listen to. I especially liked the episode on using an experiment and the...
View Article538 on John Nash
This is a great obituary and summary of John Nash’s seminal research brought to you by the guys and gals over at FiveThirtyEight. My favorite part comes at the very end: “But his greatest...
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