This year, 2018, is the year that the number of data scientists doing Python equals, maybe even exceeds, the number of web developers doing Python.

That's why I've invited Jonathan Morgan to join me to count down the top ten stories in the data science space.

You'll find many accessible and interesting stories mixed in with a bunch of laughs.

We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

This is Talk Python to Me, recorded November 25, 2018.

Welcome to Talk Python to me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities. This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy. Keep up with a show and listen to past episodes at TalkPython.fm, and follow the show on Twitter via at TalkPython. Jonathan, welcome back to Talk Python. Hey, Michael. Thank you so much.

It's super awesome to be back. And it is great to have you back. Where have you been? I've been like

a thousand places. I have not been podcasting. I feel a little bit guilty about it. Very much miss the partially derivative audience, very much

miss being on the show. I don't think we did this last year. So I'm super pumped to be doing this

again. But it's because I've been doing two things. I have a company, new knowledge. We're

focused on disinformation defense. So a lot of data science. Ultimately, we like to think that we're

protecting public discourse, improving democracy, big things like that, not at all pretentious.

That is a really awesome goal. And I suspect you, you've probably been busy, right?

I'm just saying. It's a lot. It's a lot. I mean, you know, we've perhaps bitten off more than we can

chew. It's like every month we expect that to be fading from

public consciousness. Like, all right, this is the, this is the month when people are going to get

tired of talking about like online manipulation and Facebook and Twitter and everything. And then

every month, it's like it gets worse, which is, you know, it's like a, it's a thing. But it's great.

And then there's also data for democracy, which is the nonprofit that I work on as well. And that's a community of about now 4,000

technologists and data scientists who are working on social impact projects. So also kind of mission aligned,

you know, democracy is cool. But yeah, but between those two things, I haven't had as much time to

podcast as I would have liked. But I'm glad, you know, back on the saddle. Well, I'll say if you're going to hang up your headphones and your microphone,

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