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)

Preserving History at Cyark

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Jun 5, 201523:19pending

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

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May 29, 201510:24pending

Detecting Cheating in Chess

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May 22, 201544:35pending

[MINI] z-scores

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May 15, 201510:26pending

Using Data to Help Those in Crisis

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May 8, 201534:47pending

The Ghost in the MP3

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May 1, 201535:22pending

Data Fest 2015

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Apr 28, 201527:23pending

[MINI] Cornbread and Overdispersion

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Apr 24, 201515:47pending

[MINI] Natural Language Processing

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Apr 17, 201513:27pending

Computer-based Personality Judgments

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Apr 10, 201531:56pending

[MINI] Markov Chain Monte Carlo

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Apr 3, 201515:50pending

[MINI] Markov Chains

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Mar 20, 201511:29pending

Oceanography and Data Science

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Mar 13, 201533:15pending

[MINI] Ordinary Least Squares Regression

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Mar 6, 201518:07pending

NYC Speed Camera Analysis with Tim Schmeier

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Feb 27, 201516:56pending

[MINI] k-means clustering

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Feb 20, 201514:20pending

Shadow Profiles on Social Networks

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Feb 13, 201538:37pending

[MINI] The Chi-Squared Test

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Feb 6, 201517:32pending

Mapping Reddit Topics with Randy Olson

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Jan 30, 201529:57pending

[MINI] Partially Observable State Spaces

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Jan 23, 201512:45pending

Easily Fooling Deep Neural Networks

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Jan 16, 201528:25pending

[MINI] Data Provenance

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Jan 9, 201510:56pending

Doubtful News, Geology, Investigating Paranormal Groups, and Thinking Scientific...

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Jan 3, 201531:28pending

[MINI] Belief in Santa

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Dec 26, 20149:55pending

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

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Dec 19, 201423:43pending

[MINI] The Battle of the Sexes

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Dec 12, 201418:04pending

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

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Dec 5, 201458:46pending

[MINI] The Girlfriend Equation

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Nov 28, 201416:11pending

The Secret and the Global Consciousness Project with Alex Boklin

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Nov 21, 201441:45pending

[MINI] Monkeys on Typewriters

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Nov 14, 20143:05pending

Mining the Social Web with Matthew Russell

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Nov 7, 201450:19pending

[MINI] Is the Internet Secure?

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Oct 31, 201426:11pending

Practicing and Communicating Data Science with Jeff Stanton

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Oct 24, 201436:57pending

[MINI] The T-Test

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Oct 17, 201417:03pending

Data Myths with Karl Mamer

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Oct 10, 201448:29pending

Contest Announcement

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Oct 8, 201412:18pending

[MINI] Selection Bias

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Oct 3, 201414:31pending

[MINI] Confidence Intervals

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Sep 26, 201411:30pending

[MINI] Value of Information

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Sep 19, 201414:10pending

Game Science Dice with Louis Zocchi

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Sep 17, 201447:28pending

Data Science at ZestFinance with Marick Sinay

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Sep 12, 201431:25pending

[MINI] Decision Tree Learning

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Sep 5, 201413:29pending

Jackson Pollock Authentication Analysis with Kate Jones-Smith

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Aug 29, 201449:49pending

[MINI] Noise!!

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Aug 22, 201416:04pending

Guerilla Skepticism on Wikipedia with Susan Gerbic

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Aug 15, 20141:09:59pending

[MINI] Ant Colony Optimization

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Aug 8, 201415:07pending

Data in Healthcare IT with Shahid Shah

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Aug 1, 201457:14pending

[MINI] Cross Validation

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Jul 25, 2014pending

Streetlight Outage and Crime Rate Analysis with Zach Seeskin

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Jul 18, 201433:29pending

[MINI] Experimental Design

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Jul 11, 201415:43pending

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