Data Skeptic

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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.

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Episodes (607)

Feather

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May 13, 201623:04pending

[MINI] Bargaining

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May 6, 201615:03pending

deepjazz

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Apr 29, 201629:53pending

[MINI] Auto-correlative functions and correlograms

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Apr 22, 201614:58pending

Early Identification of Violent Criminal Gang Members

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Apr 15, 201627:05pending

[MINI] Fractional Factorial Design

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Apr 8, 201611:09pending

Machine Learning Done Wrong

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Apr 1, 201625:21pending

Potholes

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Mar 25, 201641:22pending

[MINI] The Elbow Method

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Mar 18, 201615:14pending

Too Good to be True

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Mar 11, 201635:11pending

[MINI] R-squared

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Mar 4, 201613:20pending

Models of Mental Simulation

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Feb 26, 201639:44pending

[MINI] Multiple Regression

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Feb 19, 201618:29pending

Scientific Studies of People's Relationship to Music

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Feb 12, 201642:14pending

[MINI] k-d trees

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Feb 5, 201614:11pending

Auditing Algorithms

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Jan 29, 201642:58pending

[MINI] The Bonferroni Correction

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Jan 22, 201614:29pending

Detecting Pseudo-profound BS

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Jan 15, 201637:37pending

[MINI] Gradient Descent

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Jan 8, 201614:51pending

Let's Kill the Word Cloud

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Jan 1, 201615:03pending

2015 Holiday Special

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Dec 25, 201514:22pending

Wikipedia Revision Scoring as a Service

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Dec 18, 201542:56pending

[MINI] Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency

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Dec 11, 201510:17pending

The Hunt for Vulcan

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Dec 4, 201541:31pending

[MINI] The Accuracy Paradox

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Nov 27, 201517:04pending

Neuroscience from a Data Scientist's Perspective

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Nov 20, 201540:18pending

[MINI] Bias Variance Tradeoff

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Nov 13, 201513:35pending

Big Data Doesn't Exist

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Nov 6, 201532:28pending

[MINI] Covariance and Correlation

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Oct 30, 201514:29pending

Bayesian A/B Testing

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Oct 23, 201530:11pending

[MINI] The Central Limit Theorem

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Oct 16, 201513:07pending

Accessible Technology

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Oct 9, 201538:44pending

[MINI] Multi-armed Bandit Problems

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Oct 2, 201512:47pending

Shakespeare, Abiogenesis, and Exoplanets

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Sep 25, 201558:14pending

[MINI] Sample Sizes

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Sep 18, 201513:22pending

The Model Complexity Myth

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Sep 11, 201530:01pending

[MINI] Distance Measures

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Sep 4, 201512:44pending

ContentMine

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Aug 28, 201553:11pending

[MINI] Structured and Unstructured Data

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Aug 21, 201513:20pending

Measuring the Influence of Fashion Designers

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Aug 14, 201524:42pending

[MINI] PageRank

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Aug 7, 20158:29pending

Data Science at Work in LA County

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Jul 29, 201541:26pending

[MINI] k-Nearest Neighbors

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Jul 24, 20158:33pending

Crypto

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Jul 17, 20151:24:42pending

[MINI] MapReduce

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Jul 10, 201512:48pending

Genetically Engineered Food and Trends in Herbicide Usage

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Jul 3, 201534:56pending

[MINI] The Curse of Dimensionality

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Jun 26, 201510:57pending

Video Game Analytics

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Jun 19, 201531:00pending

[MINI] Anscombe's Quartet

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Jun 12, 20159:07pending

Proposing Annoyance Mining

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Jun 9, 201530:49pending

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