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02 Apr 2021129 - Monetizing False Positives01:13:07

Hilary and Roger talk about the boat, coffee status, and the purpose of prediction modeling frameworks.

 

Show Notes:

Tidymodels.org

James Hoffman Ultimate French Press Technique

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Roger on Twitter

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26 Mar 2020104 - Mossy Walls01:17:09

Hilary and Roger give some updates on what’s going on and how life at home is working out.

Show notes:

Hilary’s pen

Hilary’s acoustic panels

Hilary’s moss

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07 Jan 2022149 - Data Analyst End Game01:04:05

Hilary and Roger discuss Theranos (for the last time??), Excel as e-sport, and Hilary gives some more bad career advice.

 

Show Notes:

Financial Modeling World Cup Finals

The Missing Analytics Executive

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20 Aug 2021139 - Eliciting Chocolate01:11:39

Hilary and Roger discuss Internet woes, mugs, data editors, and user testing chocolate.

 

Show Notes:

Cacao ceremony

Esalen

The Good Chocolate

Certified Software by Zhong Shao

 

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20 Apr 2022156 - Hilary’s New Job01:06:54

Hilary and Roger talk about Hilary’s new job as Chief Technology Officer of Indyx. 

 

Show Notes:

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28 May 2021133 - Cicada Special01:07:05

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 trust in data analysis.

 

Show Notes:

Trustworthy Data Analysis (Simply Statistics)

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15 Jun 2022159 - Ecosystems vs. Platforms01:01:09

Hilary and Roger discuss deprecated packages, the tidyverse ecosystem, the end of fashion, creators and platforms, and whether certain people understand data science.

 

Show Notes:

Paper that Roger Meant to Write but Didn’t

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19 Dec 201994 - Delectoble00:07:30

Hilary and Roger ask, why doesn't Hilary just get an espresso machine?

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25 Jan 2021124 - Analysis Without Data00:56:10

Hilary and Roger discuss what happened just after Episode 123, follow up on cars and autopilot, and talk about teaching data analysis without data.

Show Notes

Gyroscopic autopilot

UNISYS and LZW patent

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20 Jun 2020109 - Still Working From Home01:17:24

Hilary and Roger discuss “microservices”, importing the tidyverse into a package, business acronyms, math as a sketching tool, and renaming the Fisher Lecture.

Show notes:

Art of Doing Science and Engineering (Stripe Press)

Microservices

How Design Makes the World

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29 Dec 2020122 - One Hot 202001:03:56

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 New Year everyone!

Show Notes:

How Bad is Your Spotify?

What is AI?

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Roger on Twitter

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23 Jan 202098 - Moka Pot Giveaway00:10:56

Hilary and Roger discuss recent results of Moka pot coffee.

Show notes:

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05 May 2022157 - Early Morning Vibe01:04:02

Hilary and Roger discuss Docker for analytic pipelines, deep learning, the right/wrong way to get feedback, and the future of Twitter.

 

Show Notes:

Fit without fear: remarkable mathematical phenomena of deep learning through the prism of interpolation

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22 Aug 2023178 - Hilary is Cranky About Everything01:05:48

Hilary and Roger discuss data vs. oil, large language models, automated vehicles, and Hilary contributes to Roger’s research. 

 

Show Notes:

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05 Jul 2022160 - Sentient Podcast01:07:04

Hilary is fresh from raising capital and Roger thinks they should start a TikTok account.

 

Show Notes:

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15 Mar 2020103 - Worst Data Analysts Ever01:12:47

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, artificial intelligence, and the Hilary Parker job requirement.

Show notes:

Hilary’s Opinionated Analysis Development paper

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Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng

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07 Sep 2021140 - Booboo Detection00:53:57

Hilary and Roger discuss the upcoming Elizabeth Holmes trial, hot tea, distraction free computing, and designing a study for detecting data booboos. Also, Roger has a new Patreon benefit!

 

Show Notes:

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04 Apr 2022154 - Just Tweak Some Parameters01:06:50

Roger welcomes back Lucy D’Agostino McGowan to the show to discuss building prediction models and how they may or may not relate to causal inference.

 

Show Notes:

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan

Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.

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29 Oct 2021144 - Taxonomy of Misery00:55:31

Hilary and Roger inaugurate a new segment: Hilary’s Bad Advice. Also they discuss spacecraft trajectories calculated with Excel, Theranos, filesystems, and San Francisco data analysis politics.

 

Show Notes:

Trajectory Design of the Lucy Mission

Theranos Ask a Manager

File Not Found

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10 Dec 2021147 - Data Science TPS Reports01:13:50

Hilary and Roger have a winding discussion about rubrics and check lists. And Hilary observed a functional data science team in the wild.

 

Show Notes:

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13 Nov 2020119 - Election Night Data Science01:14:13

Hilary and Roger discuss Hilary’s election night experience working as a data science project manager on the Biden campaign. Also, Cats follow up.

Show Notes:

Allison Horst data science illustrations

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04 Oct 2023180 - Lessons from T200:47:35

Hilary and Roger discuss how to improve ChatGPT interactions and important lessons learned from Terminator 2.

 

Show Notes:

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17 Feb 2023172 - Efficient Counterfactuals01:04:15

Hilary and Roger winge about Twitter, correct the record about dbt, and consider more counterfactuals.

 

Show Notes:

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25 May 2020108 - It Depends00:57:51

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 software without dependencies, and Lady Dynamite.

Show notes:

How Design Makes the World

Lady Dynamite

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Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng

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04 Feb 2020100 - Live from RStudio Conf 202000:59:09

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 their views on data analysis and design thinking.

Show notes:

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30 Oct 201990 - This Week in Algorithmic Bias01:01:18

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.

Also, NEW BOOK CLUB!

Show notes:

The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea at the Right Time

R as a first programming language

Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations

A New HUD Rule Would Effectively Encourage Discrimination by Algorithm

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28 Dec 2021148 - Not The Holiday Episode You Were Hoping For00:12:47

Roger and Hilary discuss the meaning of the Christmas spirit.

Show Notes:

Support us on Patreon

 

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11 Jun 2024187 - Building Robot Hilary01:03:25

Hilary and Roger discuss limitations of AI image generation and the possibility of replacing both podcast hosts with robots.

 

Show Notes:

Support us on Patreon

Roger Peng

Hilary Parker

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10 Sep 2022164 - What is Data Science?01:05:09

Hilary and Roger are back after a short break to discuss Roger’s new job, the meaning of data science, and limited liability algorithms.

 

Show Notes:

UT Austin Statistics and Data Sciences

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13 Jan 2023170 - An Abbreviated Episode00:55:19

Hilary spills a smoothie and coffee and Roger starts teaching again.

 

Show Notes:

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19 Feb 2021126 - Data Gunslingers01:17:24

Hilary and Roger discuss using APIs in R, doing short-term contract data/software work, validating paranoia, and lessons learned from data analysis.

Show Notes:

Y2K

Benford’s Law

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10 Jan 2024182 - The Best CEOs Not Named Hilary00:57:32

Hilary and Roger ring in the new year with some discussion of AI and data science, Roger’s upcoming spring semester data science course, and some predictions for 2024. 

 

Show Notes:

Support us on Patreon

Roger on Twitter/X

Roger on BlueSky

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Hilary on BlueSky

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04 Apr 2023174 - The Future Was Here01:21:26

Hilary and Roger debate the impacts and time horizon of ChatGPT and its competitors.

 

Show Notes:

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24 Jan 2022150 - Microdosing Data Science00:56:42
Hilary and Roger discuss Sir David Cox, esport competitions, and hand out more bad career advice.

 

Show Notes:

Sir David Cox

The Cox Model

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17 Apr 2023175 - Apocalypse Later00:58:39

Hilary and Roger discuss Posit ads and continue the discussion of ChatGPT and AI (including AI movies!)

 

Show Notes:

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15 Jul 2022161 - CoPodcasting01:14:37

Hilary and Roger follow up on TikTok, Twitter, and then discuss why statisticians are so bad at training people in data analysis.

 

Show Notes:

Support us on Patreon

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List of NSSD Fellows

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06 Sep 2023179 - AI Grand Strategy01:14:30

Hilary and Roger are discussing Python in Excel, speed cubing data, and a grand strategy for AI weapons.

 

Show Notes:

Python in Excel

World Cube Association

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12 Apr 2022155 - I Just Wanna ML00:59:38

Hilary is back from special assignment in the Yukon. She and Roger talk about prediction modeling (and how Hilary hates it), self-driving cars, and chatting (or not) with virtual agents.

 

Show Notes

Tensorflow MacOS

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14 Mar 2023173 - Narrative Diagrams01:11:18

Hilary and Roger reflect on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, discuss what the goal of data version control is, and critique Roger’s idea for a way to learn from other people’s data analyses.

 

Show Notes:

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16 Feb 2024184 - Unknown Unknowns00:46:15

Hilary and Roger talk about whether it might be better if ChatGPT didn’t give you what you wanted.

 

Show Notes:

Support us on Patreon

Roger Peng

Hilary Parker

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13 Jan 202097 - Don’t Do What You Like01:15:05

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 statistical modeling, and why open source developers have so little power.

Show notes:

RStudio Conference 2020

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13 Dec 201993 - df and dat01:14:18

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 intelligence applications.

Show notes:

Sean Taylor’s Poll

National Cryptologic Museum

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27 Apr 2020106 - Podcasts are a Process01:06:18

Hilary and Roger give an update on the home coffee situation and discuss COBOL programming as a metaphor for reproducible research.

Show notes:

Iron sharpens iron

Security is a process, not a product (by Bruce Schneier)

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05 Aug 2024189 - LLMs and Data Science01:07:08

Hilary and Roger discuss Hilary’s Use R! keynote presentation, LLMs and R, and whether R (or any programming language) has a future. Also, a brief preview of Roger’s JSM 2024 talk.

 

Show notes:

Support us on Patreon

Roger Peng

Hilary Parker

List of NSSD Fellows

Get the Not So Standard Deviations book

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17 Jul 2020111 - Data Science On the Go01:15:44

Hilary and Roger discuss working from home (mobile edition), correlation vs. causation, Roger’s coffee woes, and data analytic “style”.

Show notes:

9barista coffee maker

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Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng

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07 Oct 2022166 - Podcast in the Style of Data01:11:52

Hilary and Roger discuss Roger’s latest coffee conundrum, remaking the 2007 Apple store, and using DALL-E for ad campaigns. And Roger is hiring a postdoc!

 

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26 Feb 2024185 - Consultation Lessons Learned00:44:45

Roger and Hilary talk about a consulting engagement gone wrong and whether there have been any good consulting engagements.

 

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15 Nov 2023181 - Welcome to the Parkerverse01:01:02

Hilary and Roger discuss Hilary’s new ChatGPT consulting business and tease the future of data analysis with AI.

 

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07 Mar 2022153 - Bee to Bee to Cee01:06:12
Hilary and Roger discuss whether they understand their models, changing programming languages, using RStudio for everything, and deep learning.

 

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09 May 2024186 - Humanoid Robots00:57:30

Hilary and Roger discuss the latest AI news, open source Llama, and the prospect of humanoid robots.

 

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21 Feb 2022152 - Totally Normal01:02:57

Hilary and Roger continue to track Roger’s deep learning journey.

 

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22 Sep 2020115 - Five Year Anniversary01:16:32

Hilary and Roger celebrate the five year anniversary of the podcast and discuss pandemic work, the changing podcast landscape, Palantir followup, TikTok’s algorithm, and Roger’s .Rprofile.

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22 Sep 2022165 - QR No-Code01:21:02

Hilary and Roger celebrate their podcast-iversary by discussing The Dropout, Hilary’s startup experience, and developing a totally straightforward system for living in two different locations.

 

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14 Apr 2021130 - Four Sigma Club00:49:36

Hilary and Roger discuss whether Hilary is becoming the thing she criticizes and how large p-values should really be.

 

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Hilary Asks The Internet

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03 Feb 2023171 - Orchestrating the Reverse ETL01:08:33

Hilary recovers from COVID while Roger throws various difficult discussion topics at her. They talk about Charlie Javice, Data Day Texas, Posit / Palantir, and classified documents.

 

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27 Feb 2020102 - Readable Tech Debt01:09:57

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 functions, and Moka pots.

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27 Nov 201992 - Hilary Comes to Town01:07:51

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 science product development, and lots of other stuff.

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01 Dec 2021146 - Riding the Data Scientist Title00:59:55

Hilary and Roger follow up on Zillow, talk about negotiation in data science, and discuss the title of data scientist.

 

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03 Oct 2020116 - Coffee Data Science Mashup00:54:33

Hilary and Roger weave a coffee thread through their discussion of .Rprofile files, Roger’s reproducibility woes, and Palantir.

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The 9barista

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26 Dec 201995 - Summarisze00:05:06

Summarize or summarise?

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03 Jul 2020110 - Who Needs Data?01:15:25

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 has an important coffee update!

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How Design Makes the World by Scott Berkun

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30 Apr 2021131 - Email Grab Bag01:04:46

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 analysis.

 

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Finding a lost hiker

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12 Nov 2021145 - Get Used to Being Unhappy01:08:50

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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Hilary Parker on Casual Inference Podcast

Episode 35 with Sean Taylor

What Data Folk Were Saying About Zillow

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31 Jan 2024183 - What’s an Informative Tool?01:14:14

Hilary and Roger discuss what makes a data analytic tool informative for a given problem and Hilary, predictably, gets furious.

 

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03 Dec 2022168 - Mugs for Data Science01:04:46

Hilary and Roger design a coffee experiment, sell some mugs, and discuss Roger’s college transcript.

 

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Not So Standard Mugs

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16 Oct 2020117 - Failing in Statistics01:20:33

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.

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Excel: Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost

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27 Jan 202099 - HSP Guide to SF00:47:43

Hilary and Roger follow up on their discussion of open source software. They also discuss writing functions for data analysis, learning a second programming language, and Hilary’s guide to San Francisco.

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RStudio Conference 2020

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08 May 2020107 - Still Not a Data Scientist01:05:24

Hilary and Roger revisit COBOL, discuss the tradeoff of stability vs. flexibility, complain about discussing statistics over email, tech addiction, and R version 4.0.

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R 4.0 from the Revolutions Blog

stringsAsFactors

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18 Oct 2021143 - Analytic Discovery Process00:56:33

Hilary and Roger discuss scientific discovery vs. building and designing analyses, Hilary giving bad advice, and Hilary’s new career!

 

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Analytics Power Hour

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21 Nov 2022167 - Twilight of the Bird01:11:34

Hilary and Roger follow up on DALL-E and discuss the main topic of the day – Twitter and whether there are any viable alternatives.

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Roger as Cowboy

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01 Dec 2020120 - Debugging Data Analysis00:55:11

Hilary and Roger discuss a systematic framework for debugging.

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23 Jul 2021137 - Getting to Right01:04:45

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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Hilary’s thread on data checking

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16 Dec 2022169 - Farewell 202200:57:29

Hilary and Roger close out the year discussing brain biomarkers, ChatGPT and AI art, and Roger’s failed experiment with a rocket company.

 

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07 Aug 2020112 - Data Analytic Pitfalls01:08:51

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 analysis.

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The Gift of Nothing by Patrick McDonnell

Intelligence Matters Podcast

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12 Aug 2023177 - We’re Back!01:07:58

Hilary and Roger return to see if anything has changed in the world since they took their break. Topics include the changing world of social media and the “data as oil” metaphor.

 

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Catching up with the weird world of LLMs

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05 Mar 2021127 - A Bottle Episode00:55:01

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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04 Oct 2021142 - Truth or Useful01:04:17

Hilary and Roger keep track of the Elizabeth Holmes trial, follow up on useful models and formal analysis, and discuss data analysis requirements and experimental design.

 

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Latin square

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18 Feb 2020101 - Special Guest JJ Allaire01:01:50

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, successful open source business models, the R language, and data science.

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10 Apr 2020105 - Peeking at the Data00:57:10

Hilary and Roger discuss Andrew Cuomo’s appreciation of statisticians, whether to look or not look at COVID19 data, and developing Shiny apps.

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Cuomo on statisticians

NYT COVID19 data on GitHub

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10 Aug 2022163 - Life Extension Juice01:03:20

Hilary and Roger reflect on rstudio::conf(2022) and follow up on assumptions vs. constraints for statistical methods.

 

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Introduction to Modern Statistics

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10 Jun 2021134 - Special Guest Julia Silge01:09:20

Hilary and Roger welcome Julia Silge to the show to talk about tidymodels, modeling, and other important topics.

 

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Julia Silge

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

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06 Aug 2021138 - Big Brothering It00:54:50

Hilary and Roger compare mugs and then follow up on how to incentivize data quality assurance.

 

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08 Jul 2021136 - Dream Solution01:08:41

Hilary and Roger talk about tidymodels one more time with listener feedback, discuss the central question of data science, alternate ways to characterize uncertainty, and GitHub Copilot.

 

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Hill’s Criteria for Data Scientists - https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2016/12/15/hill-for-the-data-scientist-an-xkcd-story/

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11 Dec 2020121 - Global Statistical Event00:55:25

Hilary and Roger discuss the latest COVID gripes, the possibility of a global statistical event, which NSSD episode was their favorite, and whether human interaction is the only source of problems in data analysis.

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06 Sep 2020114 - We Need TikTok Help01:01:44

Hilary and Roger discuss TikTok, even though they’ve never used it, and Palantir, even though they’ve never used it.

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China bans AI exports

Palantir S-1

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20 Mar 2021128 - APIs Have Changed01:09:46

Hilary and Roger have important pony follow up. They also discuss satellite data, blowing your API quota, and building R packages for data analysis.

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NSSD Fellows

Planet Labs

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29 Oct 2020118 - Special Guest Lucy D’Agostino McGowan01:17:10

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. Plus, we introduce a new segment: How the heck did this happen?

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis with COVID-19

Why is Cats? by Lindsay Ellis

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24 Jun 2021135 - Moderate Confidence00:37:13

Hilary and Roger follow up on the discussion about tidymodels and machine learning, and discuss the way evidence is interpreted in the intelligence community.

 

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03 May 2023176 - Is R the Worst?01:02:31

Hilary and Roger make a special announcement and discuss large language models, prompt engineering, and the frustration of teaching R these days.

 

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22 Aug 2020113 - Data Science Tweener01:07:37

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!

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14 Nov 201991 - The Creative Curve01:16:43

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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The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea at the Right Time

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12 May 2021132 - Languishing00:18:25

Hilary and Roger discuss some NSSD-centric but ancillary topics for this episode. 

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07 Feb 2022151 - How Deep Is The Learning?00:59:58
02 Jan 202096 - R in 10 Years00:23:38

Where will R be in 10 years and what might replace it?

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11 Jan 2021123 - Going On Autopilot00:54:01

Hilary and Roger welcome the new year and discuss one hot encoding, autopilot as artificial intelligence, and how a car gas pedal works.

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29 Jul 2022162 - Conference Planning00:59:45

Hilary and Roger discuss the upcoming RStudio Conference and figure out what talks Roger should go to.

 

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20 Sep 2021141 - Useful Models01:02:53

Hilary and Roger discuss whether models should be correct or useful.

 

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05 Feb 2021125 - Inaugural NSSD Fellows01:00:50

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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Hilary’s Poll

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24 Jun 2024188 - Everyday Statistics Terms00:41:10

Hilary and Roger talk about the commonplace usage of statistics terminology, Apple’s recent AI announcements, and Microsoft’s Recall feature.

 

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01 Jun 2022158 - Getting the Email00:56:12

Hilary and Roger discuss testing apps on iPods, updating R packages and getting the “email” from CRAN, and going back to conferences.

 

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