Video Friday on Steroids

Here is a list of the URL’s for all the YouTube and other videos shown on this blog from January 2014 through May of this year. I encourage you to shop this list, clicking on the links. There’s a lot of good stuff, including several  instructional videos on machine learning and other technical topics, a series on robotics, and several videos on climate and climate change.

January 2014

The Polar Vortex Explained in Two Minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eDTzV6a9F4

NASA – Six Decades of a Warming Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaJJtS_WDmI

“CHASING ICE” captures largest video calving of glacier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3VTgIPoGU

Machine Learning and Econometrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EraG-2p9VuE

Can Crime Prediction Software Stop Criminals?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1-pbJKA3H8

Analytics 2013 – Day 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsyOLBroVx4

The birth of a salesman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWM1dR_V7uw

Economies Improve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_DeCMIig_M

Kaggle – Energy Applications for Machine Learning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZZFXTUz-nI

2014 Outlook with Jan Hatzius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggv0oC8L3Tk

Nassim Taleb Lectures at the NSF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omsYJBMoIJU

Vernon Smith – Experimental Markets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uncl-wRfoK8

 

 

Forecast Pro – Quick Tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8jMp5qS8v4

February 2014

Stephen Wolfram’s Introduction to the Wolfram Language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik

Tornados

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEGhgsiNFJ4

Econometrics – Quantile Regression

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9lMmEkXuBw

Quantile Regression Example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrriFC_WGj8

Brooklyn Grange – A New York Growing Season

http://vimeo.com/86266334

Getting in Shape for the Sport of Data Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwt6XEh7U3g

Machine Learning – Decision Trees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dCtJjlEEgM

Machine Learning – Random Forests

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kYujfDgmNk

Machine Learning – Random Forecasts Applications

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFGPjRPwyFw

Malcolm Gladwell on the 10,000 Hour Rule

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS5EsTc_-2Q

Sornette Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eomb_vbgvpk

Head of India Central Bank Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrVzema7pWE

March 2014

David Stockman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI718wFmReo

Partial Least Squares Regression

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKEGhyFx0Dg

April 2014

Thomas Piketty on Economic Inequality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp3AaI5bWPQ

Bonobo builds a fire and tastes marshmellows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQcN7lHSD5Y

Future Technology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbQeABIoO6A

May 2014

Ray Kurzweil: The Coming Singularity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uIzS1uCOcE

Paul Root Wolpe: Kurzweil Critique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRgMTjTMovc

The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY4ajbu_G3k

Car Factory – KIA Sportage Assembly Line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjAZGUcjrP8

10 Most Popular Applications for Robots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH4VwTgfyrQ

Predator Drones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMh8Cjnzen8

The Future of Robotic Warfare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_atffUtxXtk

Bionic Kangaroo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUxQM0O7LpQ

Ping Pong Playing Robot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIIJME8-au8

Baxter, the Industrial Robot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukehzvP9lqg

Bootstrapping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OC9ul-1PVg