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In this episode, Dr. Derek Feng drops by to chat about a recent paper on a divide-and-conquer approach (Merged-Averaged Classifiers...
We’ve long heard about the waves that statistics has made in baseball. But what about soccer? In this episode, we...
Domoic acid has plagued shellfish and other wildlife along the Pacific coastline in recent years. Testing for domoic acid concentration...
In this episode, we discuss how two statisticians used data from BoardGameGeek.com to put together their own board game recommendation...
In this episode, Dr. Derek Feng discusses the general issue of data privacy in the age of big data, including...
We sit down with Dr. Jon Krohn to chat about his work as a Chief Data Scientist at untapt, his...
In this episode, Professor Albert Y. Kim of Smith College describes his post-PhD journey, which included a stint at Google...
Dr. Derek Feng joins us again to discuss the two metrics by which we align all statistical/machine learning methods –...
Guest Dylan O’Connell joins us today to talk about a recent surprising, but legitimate Democratic primary poll result done by...
Outdoor-cat owners know all too well the unpleasantries of dealing with what the cat dragged in. A self-proclaimed machine learning...
We take a deep dive into the poster child for black-box machine learning methods, namely Deep Patient: an unsupervised learning...
In this episode, we talk about how a statistical concept that you would learn about in an introductory course was...
In this episode, we talk about Susan’s new job as a Data Scientist! She recently transitioned from academia to industry...
In this episode, we talk about some machine learning startups to pay attention to this year. Sources 25 Machine Learning...
Deep learning has been useful for lots of applications when it comes to prediction. Yet another is the use of...
In this episode, we talk about protecting kids’ digital privacy. Sources Is that a kid browsing? This company says its...
Statistics is key to demonstrating the effectiveness of new advancements in science and medicine, but when statistical significance is not...
In this episode, we talk about Amazon’s 3D body scan study. Sources Amazon is 3D-scanning people’s bodies in exchange for...
In this episode, we talk about how data are personal for those in a rural Pennsylvania community. Sources Data is...
Word on the street is that women prefer warmer temperatures than men do. Researchers designed an experiment to investigate whether...
Jeopardy! is a weeknightly televised trivia game show. In recent months, one player, James Holzhauer has taken the Jeopardy! fandom...
In this episode, we discuss a number of miscellaneous news updates regarding facial recognition technology (concerning San Francisco, Amazon, and...
In this episode, we look at a study about whether ride-sharing services contribute to increased or decreased traffic congestion in...
In this episode, we talk about a new innovation that enables household electronics to see what’s around them. We then...
Susan recently served as a judge at a local DataFest competition (a weekend-long data competition for undergraduates). She shares her...
In this episode, we discuss FiveThirtyEight.com’s analysis of primary election polling over the past 40 years. In particular, we consider...
In this episode, we discuss how Google’s Now Playing feature can identify songs that are playing around you, using embeddings....
In this episode, we discuss how bookmakers price/take bets on outcomes in the Game of Thrones. We then discuss a...
Buckle up for a sports-filled episode! We discuss a study that analyzes the accuracy of umpire calls about strikes vs....
In this episode, we discuss a study that recruits human researchers to try to predict how computers classify images. We...
In this episode, we discuss Microsoft’s handy phone application for scanning and reporting on our surroundings, as a way of...
We discuss a survey designed to analyze the extent and root cause of statistical anxiety in the classroom, discussing the...
In this episode, Susan Wang is joined by guest Natalie Doss to consider the statistical sins committed by Theranos, the...
We discuss NVIDIA’s AI-generated faces that look incredibly authentic, and relatedly, OpenAI’s text generator that is so capable that it...
We discuss opportunities for machines and humans in the prediction of protein structures, a necessary task in new drug discovery....
FiveThirtyEight.com has provided a free, online personality test that might make more sense than your typical online clickbaity quiz. We...
On February 11, IBM showcased its Project Debater in a face-off against debate champion Harish Natarajan. We talk about how...
Three topics are featured in this episode: first, statistics about Super Bowl LIII, including what was in the bowls as...
AI and ML algorithms are growing popular – but they can actually perpetuate cognitive biases in our daily lives. We...
Artificial intelligence is starting to make waves in medicine; we look at how technology might potentially change how medical testing...
Dynamic data visualization widgets can be pretty cool, but it takes more than just statistical chops to build an online...
What can machine learning tell us about the French Revolution? This episode describes a brief history lesson of the digital...
Have you ever wanted to try your hand at conducting an orchestra? Now you can, with Google’s Semi-Conductor online app....
What are the odds that a toss of a 10-sided die, followed by a toss of a 20-sided die, and...
Data visualization is an integral pre-cursor to data analysis, providing a way to visually inspect the data for surprising trends...
This week, we learn about Jessi Cisewski-Kehe’s background to find out how she went from a Math major to an...
This week, we learn about Susan Wang’s background to find out how she went from an Applied Math major to...
In this episode, we discuss biometric technology used at airports, Google Smart Replies (and letting AI compose our emails/texts for us),...
The first episode of the DataBytes Podcast where we discuss popular topics related to data, statistics, data science, machine learning,...