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Episode 29: Jeopardy! Meets Statistics
Jeopardy! is a weeknightly televised trivia game show. In recent months, one player, James Holzhauer has taken the Jeopardy! fandom...
Episode 28: Facial Recognition Technology Update and Rating Trustworthiness of AI-Generated Airbnb Profiles
In this episode, we discuss a number of miscellaneous news updates regarding facial recognition technology (concerning San Francisco, Amazon, and...
Episode 27: Does Uber/Lyft Help Or Hurt Traffic Congestion and Machine Learning Interpretability
In this episode, we look at a study about whether ride-sharing services contribute to increased or decreased traffic congestion in...
Episode 26: Household Electronics That See and Google's Reservation AI
In this episode, we talk about a new innovation that enables household electronics to see what’s around them. We then...
Episode 25: DataFest 2019 and Measuring Migrations from Hurricane Maria
Susan recently served as a judge at a local DataFest competition (a weekend-long data competition for undergraduates). She shares her...
Episode 24: Predictive Power of Early Polling and Did a TV Show Result in Higher Teenage Suicides?
In this episode, we discuss FiveThirtyEight.com’s analysis of primary election polling over the past 40 years. In particular, we consider...
Episode 23: Offline Song Identification and Perceptions about AI
In this episode, we discuss how Google’s Now Playing feature can identify songs that are playing around you, using embeddings....
Episode 22: Betting on the Game of Thrones and the Misfortune of Lefthandedness
In this episode, we discuss how bookmakers price/take bets on outcomes in the Game of Thrones. We then discuss a...
Episode 21: Pitch Call Accuracy and Predicting the Outcome of the Champions League
Buckle up for a sports-filled episode! We discuss a study that analyzes the accuracy of umpire calls about strikes vs....
Episode 20: Thinking Like Computers and Text Mining the Mueller Report
In this episode, we discuss a study that recruits human researchers to try to predict how computers classify images. We...
Episode 19: Seeing with AI and Detecting Exoplanets
In this episode, we discuss Microsoft’s handy phone application for scanning and reporting on our surroundings, as a way of...
Episode 18: Statistical Anxiety and the Fight Against Statistical Significance
We discuss a survey designed to analyze the extent and root cause of statistical anxiety in the classroom, discussing the...
Episode 17: How Theranos Sinned Statistically
In this episode, Susan Wang is joined by guest Natalie Doss to consider the statistical sins committed by Theranos, the...
Episode 16: Machine-Generated Faces/Text, and Relating Health Outcomes to Skin Tone
We discuss NVIDIA’s AI-generated faces that look incredibly authentic, and relatedly, OpenAI’s text generator that is so capable that it...
Episode 15: Deep Learning to Fold Proteins and Automated Journalism
We discuss opportunities for machines and humans in the prediction of protein structures, a necessary task in new drug discovery....
Episode 14: A Personality Test that Makes Sense and What Does Spotify Know?
FiveThirtyEight.com has provided a free, online personality test that might make more sense than your typical online clickbaity quiz. We...
Episode 13: IBM's Debate Machine and Adopting a 'Data Culture' in Companies
On February 11, IBM showcased its Project Debater in a face-off against debate champion Harish Natarajan. We talk about how...
Episode 12: Super Bowl Stats, Confidence Intervals, and Data Sources
Three topics are featured in this episode: first, statistics about Super Bowl LIII, including what was in the bowls as...
Episode 11: How Machines Might be Biased and the Job Market for Data Scientists
AI and ML algorithms are growing popular – but they can actually perpetuate cognitive biases in our daily lives. We...
Episode 10: AI in Medicine and Racial Bias in College Admissions
Artificial intelligence is starting to make waves in medicine; we look at how technology might potentially change how medical testing...