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Data Skeptic

The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and the like, all from the perspective of applying critical thinking and the scientific method to evaluate the veracity of claims and efficacy of approaches.

[MINI] Auto-correlative functions and correlograms

14 mins; April 22, 2016

Early Identification of Violent Criminal Gang Members

27 mins; April 15, 2016

[MINI] Fractional Factorial Design

11 mins; April 08, 2016

Machine Learning Done Wrong

25 mins; April 01, 2016

Potholes

41 mins; March 25, 2016

[MINI] The Elbow Method

15 mins; March 18, 2016

Too Good to be True

35 mins; March 11, 2016

[MINI] R-squared

13 mins; March 04, 2016

Models of Mental Simulation

39 mins; February 26, 2016

[MINI] Multiple Regression

18 mins; February 19, 2016

Scientific Studies of People's Relationship to Music

42 mins; February 12, 2016

[MINI] k-d trees

14 mins; February 05, 2016

Auditing Algorithms

42 mins; January 29, 2016

[MINI] The Bonferroni Correction

14 mins; January 22, 2016

Detecting Pseudo-profound BS

37 mins; January 15, 2016

[MINI] Gradient Descent

14 mins; January 08, 2016

Let's Kill the Word Cloud

15 mins; January 01, 2016

2015 Holiday Special

14 mins; December 25, 2015

Wikipedia Revision Scoring as a Service

42 mins; December 18, 2015

[MINI] Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency

10 mins; December 11, 2015

The Hunt for Vulcan

41 mins; December 04, 2015

[MINI] The Accuracy Paradox

17 mins; November 27, 2015

Neuroscience from a Data Scientist's Perspective

40 mins; November 20, 2015

[MINI] Bias Variance Tradeoff

13 mins; November 13, 2015

Big Data Doesn't Exist

32 mins; November 06, 2015

[MINI] Covariance and Correlation

14 mins; October 30, 2015

Bayesian A/B Testing

30 mins; October 23, 2015

[MINI] The Central Limit Theorem

13 mins; October 16, 2015

Accessible Technology

38 mins; October 09, 2015

[MINI] Multi-armed Bandit Problems

12 mins; October 02, 2015

Shakespeare, Abiogenesis, and Exoplanets

58 mins; September 25, 2015

[MINI] Sample Sizes

13 mins; September 18, 2015

The Model Complexity Myth

30 mins; September 11, 2015

[MINI] Distance Measures

12 mins; September 04, 2015

ContentMine

53 mins; August 28, 2015

[MINI] Structured and Unstructured Data

13 mins; August 21, 2015

Measuring the Influence of Fashion Designers

24 mins; August 14, 2015

[MINI] PageRank

8 mins; August 07, 2015

Data Science at Work in LA County

41 mins; July 29, 2015

[MINI] k-Nearest Neighbors

8 mins; July 24, 2015

Crypto

84 hours 42 mins; July 17, 2015

[MINI] MapReduce

12 mins; July 10, 2015

Genetically Engineered Food and Trends in Herbicide Usage

34 mins; July 03, 2015

[MINI] The Curse of Dimensionality

10 mins; June 26, 2015

Video Game Analytics

31 mins; June 19, 2015

[MINI] Anscombe's Quartet

9 mins; June 12, 2015

Proposing Annoyance Mining

30 mins; June 09, 2015

Preserving History at Cyark

23 mins; June 05, 2015

[MINI] A Critical Examination of a Study of Marriage by Political Affiliation

10 mins; May 29, 2015

Detecting Cheating in Chess

44 mins; May 22, 2015

[MINI] z-scores

10 mins; May 15, 2015

Using Data to Help Those in Crisis

34 mins; May 08, 2015

The Ghost in the MP3

35 mins; May 01, 2015

Data Fest 2015

27 mins; April 28, 2015

[MINI] Cornbread and Overdispersion

15 mins; April 24, 2015

[MINI] Natural Language Processing

13 mins; April 17, 2015

Computer-based Personality Judgments

31 mins; April 09, 2015

[MINI] Markov Chain Monte Carlo

15 mins; April 03, 2015

[MINI] Markov Chains

11 mins; March 20, 2015

Oceanography and Data Science

33 mins; March 13, 2015

[MINI] Ordinary Least Squares Regression

18 mins; March 06, 2015

NYC Speed Camera Analysis with Tim Schmeier

16 mins; February 27, 2015

[MINI] k-means clustering

14 mins; February 20, 2015

Shadow Profiles on Social Networks

38 mins; February 12, 2015

[MINI] The Chi-Squared Test

17 mins; February 05, 2015

Mapping Reddit Topics with Randy Olson

29 mins; January 30, 2015

[MINI] Partially Observable State Spaces

12 mins; January 23, 2015

Easily Fooling Deep Neural Networks

28 mins; January 15, 2015

[MINI] Data Provenance

10 mins; January 08, 2015

Doubtful News, Geology, Investigating Paranormal Groups, and Thinking Scientifically with Sharon Hill

31 mins; January 02, 2015

[MINI] Belief in Santa

9 mins; December 26, 2014

Economic Modeling and Prediction, Charitable Giving, and a Follow Up with Peter Backus

23 mins; December 19, 2014

[MINI] The Battle of the Sexes

18 mins; December 11, 2014

The Science of Online Data at Plenty of Fish with Thomas Levi

58 mins; December 05, 2014

[MINI] The Girlfriend Equation

16 mins; November 28, 2014

The Secret and the Global Consciousness Project with Alex Boklin

41 mins; November 21, 2014

[MINI] Monkeys on Typewriters

3 mins; November 13, 2014

Mining the Social Web with Matthew Russell

50 mins; November 07, 2014

[MINI] Is the Internet Secure?

26 mins; October 31, 2014

Practicing and Communicating Data Science with Jeff Stanton

36 mins; October 24, 2014

[MINI] The T-Test

17 mins; October 16, 2014

Data Myths with Karl Mamer

48 mins; October 09, 2014

Contest Announcement

12 mins; October 07, 2014

[MINI] Selection Bias

14 mins; October 03, 2014

[MINI] Confidence Intervals

11 mins; September 26, 2014

[MINI] Value of Information

14 mins; September 19, 2014

Game Science Dice with Louis Zocchi

47 mins; September 17, 2014

Data Science at ZestFinance with Marick Sinay

31 mins; September 12, 2014

[MINI] Decision Tree Learning

13 mins; September 05, 2014

Jackson Pollock Authentication Analysis with Kate Jones-Smith

49 mins; August 29, 2014

[MINI] Noise!!

16 mins; August 22, 2014

Guerilla Skepticism on Wikipedia with Susan Gerbic

69 hours 59 mins; August 15, 2014

[MINI] Ant Colony Optimization

15 mins; August 08, 2014

Data in Healthcare IT with Shahid Shah

57 mins; August 01, 2014

[MINI] Cross Validation

0 secs; July 25, 2014

Streetlight Outage and Crime Rate Analysis with Zach Seeskin

33 mins; July 18, 2014

[MINI] Experimental Design

15 mins; July 11, 2014

The Right (big data) Tool for the Job with Jay Shankar

49 mins; July 07, 2014

[MINI] Bayesian Updating

11 mins; June 27, 2014

Personalized Medicine with Niki Athanasiadou

57 mins; June 20, 2014

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