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Episode 49: Extreme Classification: Going at MACH Speed (Part 1)
In this episode, Dr. Derek Feng drops by to chat about a recent paper on a divide-and-conquer approach (Merged-Averaged Classifiers...
Episode 48: Where Moneyball Meets Footy
We’ve long heard about the waves that statistics has made in baseball. But what about soccer? In this episode, we...
Episode 47: Domoic Acid Testing -- A Crabshoot?
Domoic acid has plagued shellfish and other wildlife along the Pacific coastline in recent years. Testing for domoic acid concentration...
Episode 46: Finding Your (Niche) Board Games
In this episode, we discuss how two statisticians used data from BoardGameGeek.com to put together their own board game recommendation...
Episode 45: Learning Publicly, with Private Data
In this episode, Dr. Derek Feng discusses the general issue of data privacy in the age of big data, including...
Episode 44: A Conversation with Jon Krohn
We sit down with Dr. Jon Krohn to chat about his work as a Chief Data Scientist at untapt, his...
Episode 43: To Google and Back
In this episode, Professor Albert Y. Kim of Smith College describes his post-PhD journey, which included a stint at Google...
Episode 42: Black in the Box
Dr. Derek Feng joins us again to discuss the two metrics by which we align all statistical/machine learning methods –...
Episode 41: What to do with Outliers
Guest Dylan O’Connell joins us today to talk about a recent surprising, but legitimate Democratic primary poll result done by...
Episode 40: Making a DIY ML-Controlled Cat Door
Outdoor-cat owners know all too well the unpleasantries of dealing with what the cat dragged in. A self-proclaimed machine learning...
Episode 39: Rolling in the Deep Patient
We take a deep dive into the poster child for black-box machine learning methods, namely Deep Patient: an unsupervised learning...
Episode 38: The Misuse of Statistics in Court
In this episode, we talk about how a statistical concept that you would learn about in an introductory course was...
Episode 37: Susan Starts a New Job
In this episode, we talk about Susan’s new job as a Data Scientist! She recently transitioned from academia to industry...
Episode 36: What's New in Machine Learning Startups
In this episode, we talk about some machine learning startups to pay attention to this year. Sources 25 Machine Learning...
Episode 35: You Look How You Sound
Deep learning has been useful for lots of applications when it comes to prediction. Yet another is the use of...
Episode 34: Protecting Kids' Digital Privacy
In this episode, we talk about protecting kids’ digital privacy. Sources Is that a kid browsing? This company says its...
Episode 33: Statisticians Hate Post-Hoc Power
Statistics is key to demonstrating the effectiveness of new advancements in science and medicine, but when statistical significance is not...
Episode 32: Amazon's 3D Body Scan Study
In this episode, we talk about Amazon’s 3D body scan study. Sources Amazon is 3D-scanning people’s bodies in exchange for...
Episode 31: What Data Visualizations Do You Care About? It's Personal
In this episode, we talk about how data are personal for those in a rural Pennsylvania community. Sources Data is...
Episode 30: Some Like It Hot -- What Gender Reveals About Our Temperature Preferences
Word on the street is that women prefer warmer temperatures than men do. Researchers designed an experiment to investigate whether...