In this episode, Frank and Andy chat with Amanda Lange, technology evangelist at Microsoft, games journalist, and data aficionado.
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Notable Quotes Frank is working on a https://www.wintellectnow.com/ (Wintellect) on https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/clouds/government/request/ (Azure Gov) ([1:30]) Amanda’s site is http://secondtruth.com/ (Second Truth.com) ([99:00]) The psychology of games ([5:30]) Movie reference: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/ (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]) https://www.zynga.com/ (Zynga) and A/B testing ([10:45]) Amanda plays a lot of https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/ (Overwatch) these days ([11:30]) “Games as a Service” ([12:10]) Psychology in games https://www.media.mit.edu/videos/lin-2015-03-12/ (Jeffrey “Lyte” Lin on Shaping Behavior in Online Games) ([13:30]) Amanda writes for http://tap-repeatedly.com/ (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 http://data8.org/ (online) ([19:40]) Learn data science at http://data8.org/ (Data 8) ([22:15]) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLaDOS (GLaDOS) is a character in the http://www.valvesoftware.com/games/portal.html (Portal) games ([25:00]) The orchestral version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IS8J4ex6Uc (Still Alive) ([28:00]) No arm-wrestling with Amanda ([31:45]) “We can learn anything.” ([32:45]) https://nerdist.com/trap-a-self-driving-car/ (Trapping a self-driving car using salt…) ([34:00]) https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Ready-Player-One-Audiobook/B005FRGT44 (Ready Player One) audio book ([35:40]) http://readyplayeronemovie.com/ (Ready Player One, the Movie) ([99:00]) http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/adventure-zone (The Adventure Zone) ([37:50]) http://thedatadrivenbook.com (Audible (get a free book!)) has the Dragonlance series ([39:25]) Amanda tried out for http://abc.go.com/shows/american-idol (American Idol) ([41:00]) Amanda’s on Twitter https://twitter.com/second_truth (@second_truth) ([42:00])