Recently, Andy and I had a chance to chat with Amanda Lange, technology evangelist at Microsoft, games journalist, and data aficionado.

Press the play button below to listen here or visit the show page at DataDriven.tv

Show Notes

• Frank is working on a Wintellect on Azure Gov (1:30)
• Amanda’s site is Second Truth.com (99:00)
• The psychology of games (5:30)
• Movie reference: Back to the Future (6:30)
• How an Apple Watch or FitBit knows you’re asleep (7:10)
• Game violence activates sections of the brain (but it’s short-lived) (8:30)
• Andy lives in Farmville-not-the-game (10:30)
• Zynga and A/B testing (10:45)
• Amanda plays a lot of Overwatch these days (11:30)
• “Games as a Service” (12:10)
• Psychology in games Jeffrey “Lyte” Lin on Shaping Behavior in Online Games (13:30)
• Amanda writes for Tap Repeatedly (15:00)
• Amanda loves teaching people! (17:10)
• “I wasn’t a data scientist until I was.” (17:50)
• On privacy and data… (19:00)
• Berkeley’s Data Science curriculum is online (19:40)
• Learn data science at Data 8 (22:15)
• GLaDOS is a character in the Portal games (25:00)
• The orchestral version of Still Alive (28:00)
• No arm-wrestling with Amanda (31:45)
• “We can learn anything.” (32:45)
• Trapping a self-driving car using salt… (34:00)
• Ready Player One audio book (35:40)
• Ready Player One, the Movie (99:00)
• The Adventure Zone (37:50)
• Audible (get a free book!) has the Dragonlance series (39:25)
• Amanda tried out for American Idol (41:00)
• Amanda’s on Twitter @second_truth (42:00)