Podcasts by Not So Standard Deviations
Roger Peng and Hilary Parker talk about the latest in data science and data analysis in academia and industry.
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152 - Totally Normal from 2022-02-21T17:34:47
Hilary and Roger continue to track Roger’s deep learning journey.
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151 - How Deep Is The Learning? from 2022-02-07T20:25:26
Hilary and Roger discuss Twitter Spaces, career advice, and deep learning.
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150 - Microdosing Data Science from 2022-01-24T18:58:54
Hilary and Roger discuss Sir David Cox, esport competitions, and hand out more bad career advice.
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149 - Data Analyst End Game from 2022-01-07T19:13:25
Hilary and Roger discuss Theranos (for the last time??), Excel as e-sport, and Hilary gives some more bad career advice.
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148 - Not The Holiday Episode You Were Hoping For from 2021-12-28T14:42:33
Roger and Hilary discuss the meaning of the Christmas spirit.
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147 - Data Science TPS Reports from 2021-12-10T17:50
Hilary and Roger have a winding discussion about rubrics and check lists. And Hilary observed a functional data science team in the wild.
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146 - Riding the Data Scientist Title from 2021-12-01T16:50:42
Hilary and Roger follow up on Zillow, talk about negotiation in data science, and discuss the title of data scientist.
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145 - Get Used to Being Unhappy from 2021-11-12T17:25:47
Hilary and Roger discuss data analysis and communication, analysis correctness, Zillow Offers, and another installment of Hilary’s Bad Career Advice.
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144 - Taxonomy of Misery from 2021-10-29T16:12:31
Hilary and Roger inaugurate a new segment: Hilary’s Bad Advice. Also they discuss spacecraft trajectories calculated with Excel, Theranos, filesystems, and San Fr...
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143 - Analytic Discovery Process from 2021-10-18T16:00:48
Hilary and Roger discuss scientific discovery vs. building and designing analyses, Hilary giving bad advice, and Hilary’s new career!
141 - Useful Models from 2021-09-20T17:08:50
Hilary and Roger discuss whether models should be correct or useful.
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140 - Booboo Detection from 2021-09-07T15:31:32
Hilary and Roger discuss the upcoming Elizabeth Holmes trial, hot tea, distraction free computing, and designing a study for detecting data booboos. Also, Roger h...
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139 - Eliciting Chocolate from 2021-08-20T17:09:06
Hilary and Roger discuss Internet woes, mugs, data editors, and user testing chocolate.
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138 - Big Brothering It from 2021-08-06T15:58:01
Hilary and Roger compare mugs and then follow up on how to incentivize data quality assurance.
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137 - Getting to Right from 2021-07-23T20:18:55
Hilary and Roger follow up on GitHub Copilot, discuss SAS (briefly!), and talk about ways in which people determine that data are “right”.
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136 - Dream Solution from 2021-07-08T18:43:05
Hilary and Roger talk about tidymodels one more time with listener feedback, discuss the central question of data science, alternate ways to characterize uncertai...
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135 - Moderate Confidence from 2021-06-24T07:00
Hilary and Roger follow up on the discussion about tidymodels and machine learning, and discuss the way evidence is interpreted in the intelligence community. Listen
134 - Special Guest Julia Silge from 2021-06-10T07:00
Hilary and Roger welcome Julia Silge to the show to talk about tidymodels, modeling, and other important topics.
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133 - Cicada Special from 2021-05-28T13:57:33
Hilary and Roger are back with things to talk about, including some follow up on design thinking, how Family Feud is related to data analysis, and the role of tru...
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132 - Languishing from 2021-05-12T20:18:47
Hilary and Roger discuss some NSSD-centric but ancillary topics for this episode.
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131 - Email Grab Bag from 2021-04-30T14:53:44
Hilary and Roger go through the mail bag and answer some listener questions about tidymodels, advice for beginners, and negative and positive controls in data ana...
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130 - Four Sigma Club from 2021-04-14T17:38:51
Hilary and Roger discuss whether Hilary is becoming the thing she criticizes and how large p-values should really be.
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129 - Monetizing False Positives from 2021-04-02T17:00:55
Hilary and Roger talk about the boat, coffee status, and the purpose of prediction modeling frameworks.
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128 - APIs Have Changed from 2021-03-20T10:00
Hilary and Roger have important pony follow up. They also discuss satellite data, blowing your API quota, and building R packages for data analysis.
127 - A Bottle Episode from 2021-03-05T16:32:53
Hilary travels back home to take care of some old business. And Roger laughs at her but doesn’t criticize her.
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126 - Data Gunslingers from 2021-02-19T18:49:50
Hilary and Roger discuss using APIs in R, doing short-term contract data/software work, validating paranoia, and lessons learned from data analysis.
125 - Inaugural NSSD Fellows from 2021-02-05T17:09:04
Hilary and Roger put the nail in the coffin on cars and acceleration, consider possible NSSD Fellow nominations, discuss teaching data analysis, and other topics....
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124 - Analysis Without Data from 2021-01-25T22:30:46
Hilary and Roger discuss what happened just after Episode 123, follow up on cars and autopilot, and talk about teaching data analysis without data.
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123 - Going On Autopilot from 2021-01-11T15:01:27
Hilary and Roger welcome the new year and discuss one hot encoding, autopilot as artificial intelligence, and how a car gas pedal works.
122 - One Hot 2020 from 2020-12-29T12:00
Hilary and Roger close out 2020 with a discussion of AI products, the difference between AI and machine learning, reflections on 2020, and milk frothing. Happy Ne...
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121 - Global Statistical Event from 2020-12-11T18:56:02
Hilary and Roger discuss the latest COVID gripes, the possibility of a global statistical event, which NSSD episode was their favorite, and whether human interact...
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120 - Debugging Data Analysis from 2020-12-01T11:00
Hilary and Roger discuss a systematic framework for debugging.
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119 - Election Night Data Science from 2020-11-13T18:44:10
Hilary and Roger discuss Hilary’s election night experience working as a data science project manager on the Biden campaign. Also, Cats follow up.
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118 - Special Guest Lucy D’Agostino McGowan from 2020-10-29T17:16
Roger welcomes Lucy D’Agostino McGowan to the podcast to discuss the challenges of scientific communication, what computer to get, and the next big thing in tech....
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117 - Failing in Statistics from 2020-10-16T17:00:13
Hilary and Roger dig into the mail bag, then discuss how Excel is always causing problems and the concept of failure modes in data analysis.
116 - Coffee Data Science Mashup from 2020-10-03T14:50:19
Hilary and Roger weave a coffee thread through their discussion of .Rprofile files, Roger’s reproducibility woes, and Palantir.
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115 - Five Year Anniversary from 2020-09-22T15:08:53
Hilary and Roger celebrate the five year anniversary of the podcast and discuss pandemic work, the changing podcast landscape, Palantir followup, TikTok’s algorit...
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114 - We Need TikTok Help from 2020-09-06T19:23:46
Hilary and Roger discuss TikTok, even though they’ve never used it, and Palantir, even though they’ve never used it.
113 - Data Science Tweener from 2020-08-22T01:49:54
Hilary and Roger discuss The Last Dance, the future of the data science industry, and living in an era of constant crisis. Oh, and Hilary has a new job! Listen
112 - Data Analytic Pitfalls from 2020-08-07T16:29:09
Hilary and Roger discuss Roger’s freshly-delivered talk for the Joint Statistical Meetings, social media and how ideas from intelligence analysis apply to data an...
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111 - Data Science On the Go from 2020-07-17T19:28:07
Hilary and Roger discuss working from home (mobile edition), correlation vs. causation, Roger’s coffee woes, and data analytic “style”.
110 - Who Needs Data? from 2020-07-03T16:15:45
Hilary and Roger discuss using data to prove someone wrong and then embark on another book club discussing Scott Berkun’s How Design Makes the World. And Hilary h...
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109 - Still Working From Home from 2020-06-20T11:00
Hilary and Roger discuss “microservices”, importing the tidyverse into a package, business acronyms, math as a sketching tool, and renaming the Fisher Lecture. Listen
108 - It Depends from 2020-05-25T22:41:23
Hilary and Roger discuss such non-pandemic topics as: the stunning conclusion to the Moka Pot Saga, Hilary’s new book she’s reading on design thinking, building s...
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107 - Still Not a Data Scientist from 2020-05-08T21:25:08
Hilary and Roger revisit COBOL, discuss the tradeoff of stability vs. flexibility, complain about discussing statistics over email, tech addiction, and R version ...
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106 - Podcasts are a Process from 2020-04-27T22:14:03
Hilary and Roger give an update on the home coffee situation and discuss COBOL programming as a metaphor for reproducible research.
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105 - Peeking at the Data from 2020-04-10T15:01
Hilary and Roger discuss Andrew Cuomo’s appreciation of statisticians, whether to look or not look at COVID19 data, and developing Shiny apps.
104 - Mossy Walls from 2020-03-26T23:39:24
Hilary and Roger give some updates on what’s going on and how life at home is working out.
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103 - Worst Data Analysts Ever from 2020-03-15T20:42:37
Hilary and Roger provide a respite from recent events by discussing forecasting the U.S. primary elections, Roger’s time series analysis course, R package woes, a...
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102 - Readable Tech Debt from 2020-02-27T20:34:05
Hilary and Roger follow up on their discussion with JJ Allaire about open source software. They also discuss getting a PhD, ad hoc data analysis with or without f...
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101 - Special Guest JJ Allaire from 2020-02-18T16:30:24
Hilary and Roger welcome JJ Allaire, CEO and founder of RStudio, PBC, to the podcast and have a wide-ranging discussion about developing open source software, suc...
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100 - Live from RStudio Conf 2020 from 2020-02-04T07:00
Episode 100 was recorded in front of a live audience at RStudio::conf 2020. In this episode Hilary and Roger discuss how ideas evolve over time and use examples from this podcast to illustrate t...
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99 - HSP Guide to SF from 2020-01-27T20:42:30
Hilary and Roger follow up on their discussion of open source software. They also discuss writing functions for data analysis, learning a second programming langu...
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98 - Moka Pot Giveaway from 2020-01-23T00:30:12
Hilary and Roger discuss recent results of Moka pot coffee.
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97 - Don’t Do What You Like from 2020-01-13T20:45:12
Hilary and Roger follow up on the future of R, then talk about reproducibility versus systems, the proliferation of text-based formats and implications for statis...
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96 - R in 10 Years from 2020-01-02T06:00
Where will R be in 10 years and what might replace it?
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95 - Summarisze from 2019-12-26T06:00
Summarize or summarise?
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94 - Delectoble from 2019-12-19T06:00
Hilary and Roger ask, why doesn't Hilary just get an espresso machine?
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93 - df and dat from 2019-12-13T21:07:09
Hilary and Roger discuss Moka pots, follow up on the creative curve, name their data frames, discuss prediction vs. forecasting, and data science in military and ...
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92 - Hilary Comes to Town from 2019-11-27T20:01:49
Hilary and Roger record in person for the third time ever to discuss the changing nature of data science and its role in various industries, the use of QA in data...
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91 - The Creative Curve from 2019-11-14T22:43:54
Hilary and Roger discuss the book The Creative Curve by Allen Gannett and how the ideas relate to data science and data analysis.
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90 - This Week in Algorithmic Bias from 2019-10-30T17:44:56
Hilary and Roger follow up on R as a first programming language (thanks Sean Kross!) and open source licensing and then discuss algorithmic bias in medicine and housing.
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89 - Everyone Has a Life from 2019-10-19T18:23:13
Hilary and Roger have a wide-ranging discussion about coffee, Hilary’s essay on imposter syndrome, open source software business models, and R as a first programm...
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88 - Keep the Humans for the Human Stuff from 2019-09-30T19:06:10
Hilary and Roger discuss the RStudio Conference, Directions in Statistical Computing, the benefits of having a diversity of programming languages, and canola oil.
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87 - Leadership Skills for the Apocalypse from 2019-09-16T13:52:57
Hilary and Roger go behind the scenes of a new tool for building outfits that she helped build at Stitch Fix. Also, follow up on writing functions for data analysis and Hilary review's her milk ...
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86 - Pedal to the Metal from 2019-08-22T05:00
Hilary and Roger are back from their brief summer hiatus to discuss data analysis project organization, version control systems, foot pedals, conferences, and Roger's live-streaming.
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85 - Old/old (with special guest Jenna Krall) from 2019-07-25T20:27:18
Roger welcomes special guest Jenna Krall to discuss cricket, data analysis project organization, and the difficulties in creating a dataset.
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84 - All the Easy Issues from 2019-07-10T20:40:51
Roger and Hilary follow up on leaf umbrellas and take some time to discuss what's happening with R, the Tidyverse, and RStudio and how it's related to what's happening more broadly in the world ...
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83 - Cricket Maths from 2019-06-27T00:52:15
Hilary and Roger talk about Cricket math(s), livestreaming data analysis, Hilary's Style Challenge Friday, and an auto-rejecting paper bot.
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82 - The Majority of Data Science is Data Science from 2019-06-13T06:00
Hilary and Roger talk about what people are really saying when they complain about data cleaning and follow up about the role of negotiation in data science. Also, some important discussion abou...
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81 - Getting to Yes with Data Analysis from 2019-05-23T05:00
Hilary and Roger discuss the book Getting to Yes and how it applies to data analysis. Also, more sports, breaking changes to R, and sampling.
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80 - We Have the Fix for Science from 2019-05-03T19:06:19
Hilary and Roger announce a NEW BOOK CLUB, discuss the rise of causal inference, the new version of RStudio, and different ways to model the data analysis process.
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79 - Things Never Get Dirty If You're Always Cleaning from 2019-04-23T05:00
Hilary and Roger discuss the Women in Analytics Conference, GDPR, and Soji for Data. Also a new #hilaryshabits!
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78 - A Sheep in Every Kitchen from 2019-04-11T12:36:57
Hilary and Roger provide updates about coffee and oat milk, talk about the unbundling of the data scientist job, R style guides, quantifying the performance of music services, and KPI design. An...
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77 - Back to Statistics from 2019-03-28T13:59:19
Hilary and Roger discuss the significance of statistical significance, the elements and principles of data analysis, and how to enforce ethical data science practice.
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76 - Barely a Data Scientist from 2019-03-08T03:11:05
Hilary and Roger discuss the other jobs of the data scientist, using notebooks, Getting Things Done (on paper), keeping packages on CRAN, and the Women in Data Science Conference.
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75 - Data Science Lite from 2019-02-21T18:47:57
Hilary and Roger talk about maintaining old R packages, how Hilary manages her time, and the general state of open source software.
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74 - I Draw the Line at Fans from 2019-02-09T02:13:57
Hilary and Roger discuss Roger's foray into cloud computing and how they determine whether they can trust an algorithm or R package. Also, a bonus discussion of the state of data science as a fi...
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73 - Time Tracking Fiasco from 2019-01-24T15:17:56
Hilary and Roger discuss this year's RStudio Conference and the perils of collecting data without first thinking about it. Also, the return of free advertising.
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72 - Cat Shenanigans from 2019-01-14T16:00:52
Happy 2019 to all of our listeners! Hilary and Roger follow up on the data science design challenge, talk about the future package for R, and do another #hilaryshabits.
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71 - Compromised Shoe Situation from 2018-12-21T03:14:06
Hilary and Roger discuss their first data science design challenge on getting to work on time, and Roger talks his own about biased training data.
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70 - The Smoothie Happens Everyday from 2018-12-06T13:27:03
In their penultimate episode for 2018, Hilary and Roger discuss the distinction between what data analysis is and what data analysts do, Hilary's morning routine, and Chapter 8 (the final chapte...
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69 - Book Club, Part 7 from 2018-11-16T15:45
Hilary and Roger discuss the DC R Conference, QCon, Netflix, and Chapter 7 of Design Thinking by Nigel Cross.
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68 - Book Club, Part 6 from 2018-11-01T13:39:47
Hilary and Roger discuss Hilary's .Rprofile file, jury duty, R certification, and Chapter 6 of Nigel Cross's book Design Thinking.
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67 - Book Club, Part 5 from 2018-10-18T14:46:25
Hilary and Roger discuss dogs in McLaren F1s, ??, five books on data science, ? charts, and chapter 5 of Nigel Cross's book Design Thinking.
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66 - Book Club, Part 4 from 2018-10-05T16:57:50
Hilary and Roger discuss chapter 4 of Nigel Cross's book, Design Thinking. Also, a new Hilary's Habits and important coffee follow up.
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65 - Book Club, Part 3 from 2018-09-20T19:46:30
Hilary and Roger launch a new segment--Hilary's Habits--and they discuss their 3 year anniversary for the show. Also, they continue their discussion of Nigel Cross's Design Thinking book, coveri...
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64 - Book Club, Part 2 from 2018-09-06T20:54:44
Hilary and Roger discuss Chapter 2 of Design Thinking by Nigel Cross. Also follow up on adductive reasoning and Hilary considers the McLaren F1.
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63 - Book Club, Part 1 from 2018-08-23T18:00
Hilary and Roger discuss chapter 1 of Design Thinking by Nigel Cross.
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62 - Adult Phase from 2018-08-13T16:35:23
Hilary and Roger are back from hiatus to discuss the NSSD book club, Roger's coffee retraction, minimizing R package dependencies, and keynote addresses at ICOTS and Use R! It's good to be back!...
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61 - 70% Gut, 30% Data from 2018-06-20T04:38:05
In Roger's last episode from Melbourne, Hilary and Roger discuss Theranos, trust in data analysis, Netflix, ALTREP, what computer to buy, and how to get into data science.
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60 - Promise and Deliver from 2018-05-31T06:18:05
Hilary and Roger discuss past research on social networks, more Facebook, corner cases in success in data analysis, and John Carreyrou's book Bad Blood.
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59 - You Can Have a Day About Anything from 2018-05-17T02:50:14
Hilary and Roger follow up on Uber's self-driving car accident, sensitivity and specificity, Ronald Fisher's final destination, and Wes McKinney's announcement of Ursa Labs. Also, this episode d...
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58 - It's Conference Season from 2018-04-27T02:53:47
Hilary and Roger discuss design and data analysis, the recent Women in Analytics Conference at Facebook, presentation formats, and the value of PhD training.
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57 - Secrets Revealed from 2018-04-12T05:08:56
Hilary and Roger discuss the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook story, what explainable AI tries to get at, and Hilary's secret trick for data analysis. Also, we respond to some listener questions and...
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56 - Only One of Us is Saving Daylight from 2018-03-16T01:26:40
Roger and Hilary respond to some listener feedback and questions and get sidetracked into a long discussion about transporting data analytic techniques from one context to another. Also the retu...
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55 - Biggest Change to R Since R from 2018-03-01T05:44:11
Hilary and Roger discuss limiting the number of loaded R packages, more Microsoft, whether A/B testing is dead, and transcendental meditation.
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54 - Soft Spot for Microsoft from 2018-02-11T23:47:04
Hilary and Roger follow up on his talk at WEHI and the discussion on intelligence analysts. They also discuss Microsoft's R-related tools, movie spoilers, and other miscellaneous topics.
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53 - Shaken, Not Stirred from 2018-01-29T00:57:45
Hilary and Roger discuss the connection between intelligence analysts and data scientists, and Hilary helps Roger prepare for an upcoming talk.
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52 - Expense Reporting Masterpiece from 2018-01-12T03:27:40
Hilary and Roger welcome the new year by discussing Excel (again), why talking to people who generate data matters, meditation and neuroscience, and trust vs. quality in data analysis.
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51 - A Beehive of Excel Devotees from 2017-12-15T02:09:25
An end-of-year episode chock full of topics! Roger and Hilary discuss using Excel, detecting serial killers, counting hurricane-related deaths, and whether it's possible to evaluate a data analy...
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50 - Existential Crisis Narrowly Averted from 2017-12-04T05:00
Hilary and Roger revisit GANs and discuss what makes for a good data analysis.
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49 - Baltimore is the Home of Cloud Computing from 2017-11-22T03:38:24
Hilary and Roger discuss when to hire a data scientist, the Kaggle State of Data Science and Machine Learning Survey, and the lack of tools for tracking changes to data.
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48 - Peak Salesperson Mode from 2017-11-08T02:07:59
Roger went to the rOpenSci Oz Unconference and Hilary led a design sprint.
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47 - This is Episode 47 from 2017-10-20T00:43:52
Hilary and Roger discuss listener names, facial recognition, coding boot camps, wildfires in California, edge computing, and AR measuring apps. Plus, more on stickers!
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46 - Uncanny Valley of Stickerness from 2017-10-06T03:44:50
Hilary and Roger continue their late night contemplations about stickers, collecting new data for training machine learning algorithms, and paying for open (and closed) source software.
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45 - Analogy Corner After Dark from 2017-08-31T02:57:34
Hilary and Roger have a late-night discussion about JupyterCon, data analysis and decisions, and other deeper topics.
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44 - She Won the Battle from 2017-08-21T01:24:38
Hilary and Roger continue the discussion about whether good data analysis can lead to bad outcomes, talk about private cloud servers, and discuss whether data represent ground truth.
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28 - Writing is a Lot Harder Than Just Talking from 2017-08-03T22:18:25
Hilary and Roger talk about building data science products that provide a good user experience while adhering to some kind of ground truth, whether it’s in medicine, education, news, or elsewher...
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43 - Analogy Corner from 2017-07-20T17:46
Hilary and Roger talk about teaching R in the era of the tidyverse, joyplots, follow up on explainable AI, writing versus data analysis, and Google Music playlists. They also take some reader qu...
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Episode 42 - One Piece PJs from 2017-07-06T03:19:23
Hilary and Roger discuss the paradigm-shifting Echo Show, whether we need explainable AI or not, and how lessons from DevOps could be useful in analysis development. Show notes: Peter Norvig on exp...
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Episode 41 - Good to Two Decimal Places from 2017-06-22T17:56:02
This episode heralds the return of CEO Hilary. Also, Hilary and Roger discuss cybersecurity in the cloud, Theranos, residual variation in data analyses, and Airbnb’s Data University. Show notes: P-...
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Episode 40 - It’s the CDs All Over Again from 2017-06-13T13:42:34
Hilary and Roger talk about the EARL conference, a data science tri-lemma, data science ethics, and Hilary’s CD collection. Show notes: P-hacking conversation: https://twitter.com/jakevdp/status/86...
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Episode 39 - We Listen to Our Data Team from 2017-05-25T02:38:08
Roger and Hilary discuss the meaning of “data driven”, the value of Cloud Computing (again), and algorithmic transparency. Show notes: Artificial Intelligence Owes You an Explanation: http://www.sl...
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Episode 38 - Banging on the Piano from 2017-05-15T01:42
Hilary and Roger revisit the desktop vs. cloud discussion, Hilary recaps csvconf, and Roger discusses the aesthetics of data analysis. Show Notes: Verena Haunschmid’s desktop: https://twitter.com/e...
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Episode 37 - It's a Seller's Market from 2017-04-27T20:46:14
Hilary and Roger talk about the EPA taking down data (or not?), whether statisticians are paternalistic, and how to evaluate machine learning consumer products. Show Notes: Mosh: the mobile shell -...
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Episode 36 - Ripped From the Headlines from 2017-04-12T20:51:36
Hilary and Roger discuss Trump using an iPhone and implications for analyzing his tweets, computing setups for data science, and building simple versus complex tool chains to rely on. And the retur...
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Episode 35 - Special Guest Sean Taylor from 2017-03-29T20:03:53
Hilary and Roger talk with Sean Taylor of Facebook about his new software package prophet, how to make tools usable and re-usable, and of course, Excel. Show notes: Sean Taylor http://seanjtaylor.c...
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Episode 34 - F Dist from 2017-03-13T00:39:29
Hilary and Roger discuss Stitch Fix’s massive Algorithms Tour, reproducibility from a physical scientist perspective, and interpretability in machine learning. Show notes F this: http://sgsa.stat.u...
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Episode 33 - Big Time Bubble Time from 2017-02-23T15:02:59
Hilary and Roger talk about the interview process for data science and data analyst jobs, opinionated analysis development, and what job interviews were like back in 1999. Show notes: Roger’s podca...
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Episode 32 - You Have to Reinvent the Wheel a Few Times from 2017-02-09T15:23:18
Hilary and Roger discuss training in PhD programs, estimating the variance vs. the standard deviation, the bias variance tradeoff, and explainable machine learning. Show notes: Support us through o...
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Episode 31 - The Word You're Looking for is Magical from 2017-01-18T22:50:46
Hilary and Roger go on a podcast bender and discuss how they record the podcast, missing data methods, rstudio::conf, Uber Movement, diagnosis with prediction models, and Alexa/Siri. Whew! Show not...
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Episode 30 - Philately and Numismatology from 2017-01-05T16:59:14
Hilary and Roger follow up on open data and data sharing in government. They also discuss artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, and doing your taxes in R. Show notes: Lucy D’Agostino McGowan ...
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Episode 29 -Standards are Like Toothbrushes from 2016-12-20T03:46:04
Roger travels to Washington, DC to talk with Daniel Morgan, Chief Data Officer for the U.S. Department of Transportation and Terah Lyons, Policy Advisor to the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. ...
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Episode 28 - Writing is a Lot Harder Than Just Talking from 2016-12-14T22:31:30
Hilary and Roger talk about building data science products that provide a good user experience while adhering to some kind of ground truth, whether it’s in medicine, education, news, or elsewhere. ...
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Episode 27 - Special Guest Amelia McNamara from 2016-11-30T21:20:22
Roger sits down with Amelia McNamara, Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistical and Data Sciences at Smith College, to talk about data science, data journalism, visualization, the problems with R...
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Episode 26 - Our First Post-Election Episode from 2016-11-16T05:04:04
Hilary and Roger recover from last week’s U.S. election. There’s not really any data science (or much of anything else) in this episode, but if you’re just wondering how things are going, here it i...
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