John Foreman, Data Scientist
  • Home
  • Data Smart book
  • Speaking & Events
  • Featured Talks
  • Blog
  • MailChimp
Contact

Beef, to slurry, to wiener. Reflections on teaching algorithms in spreadsheets

8/27/2013

0 Comments

 
I'm pleased to announce that my part in writing my book, Data Smart, is pretty much done. Phew! So that took about 8 full months to write. It's got 10 very thorough chapters on aspects of data science -- if you ever wondered how a Big M constraint in optimization is like a dead squirrel or how Megaman X is related to naive Bayes then this book is for you. The book will come out October 28, so preorder now. And if you'd like a sample chapter, just sign up for my newsletter, and I'll send you one shortly.

So! Everything is turned in, edited, spreadsheets are checked, R code is checked. I've even assembled a playlist to go along with the middle school dance floor clustering tutorial. 
Picture
Yeah, I drew a middle school dance in photoshop just for you. Like my parquet floor?
Now that my work is done, I thought I'd take a moment to reflect on the process of teaching data science and what it was like to use spreadsheets. I can honestly say that spreadsheets were a really nice way to teach data science concepts while at times also being slightly frustrating. What made spreadsheets so great for Data Smart?


Read More
0 Comments

    Author

    Hey, I'm John, the data scientist at MailChimp.com.

    This blog is where I put thoughts about doing data science as a profession and the state of the "analytics industry" in general.

    Want to get even dirtier with data? Check out my blog "Analytics Made Skeezy", where math meets meth as fictional drug dealers get schooled in data science.

    Reach out to me on Twitter at @John4man

    Picture
    Click here to buy the most amazing spreadsheet book you've ever read (probably because you've never read one).

    Archives

    January 2015
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    May 2013
    February 2013

    Categories

    All
    Advertising
    Big Data
    Data Science
    Machine Learning
    Shamelessly Plugging My Book
    Talent
    Talks

    RSS Feed


✕