Not So Standard Deviations Episode 16 - The Silicon Valley Episode

23 May 2016 By Roger Peng

Roger and Hilary are back, with Hilary broadcasting from the west coast. Hilary and Roger discuss the possibility of scaling data analysis and how that may or may not work for companies like Palantir. Also, the latest on Theranos and the release of data from OkCupid.

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Show notes:

• BuzzFeed Article on Palantir

• Roger’s Simply Statistics post on Palantir

• Looker

• Data science done well looks easy

• Latest on Theranos

• OkCupid Data Release

• Secret history of Silicon Valley

• Wealthfront blog

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