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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 11 days 4 hours 33 minutes
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Contest Announcement
The Data Skeptic Podcast is launching a contest- not one of chance, but one of skill. Listeners are encouraged to put their data science skills to good use, or if all else fails, guess! The contest works as follows. Below is some data about the...
[MINI] Selection Bias
A discussion about conducting US presidential election polls helps frame a converation about selection bias.
[MINI] Confidence Intervals
Commute times and BBQ invites help frame a discussion about the statistical concept of confidence intervals.
[MINI] Value of Information
A discussion about getting ready in the morning, negotiating a used car purchase, and selecting the best AirBnB place to stay at help frame a conversation about the decision theoretic principal known as the Value of Information equation.
Game Science Dice with Louis Zocchi
In this bonus episode, guest Louis Zocchi discusses his background in the gaming industry, specifically, how he became a manufacturer of dice designed to produce statistically uniform outcomes. During the show Louis mentioned a two part video...
Data Science at ZestFinance with Marick Sinay
Marick Sinay from ZestFianance is our guest this weel. This episode explores how data science techniques are applied in the financial world, specifically in assessing credit worthiness.
[MINI] Decision Tree Learning
Linhda and Kyle talk about Decision Tree Learning in this miniepisode. Decision Tree Learning is the algorithmic process of trying to generate an optimal decision tree to properly classify or forecast some future unlabeled element based by...
Jackson Pollock Authentication Analysis with Kate Jones-Smith
Our guest this week is who joins us to discuss the evidence for the claim that drip paintings of Jackson Pollock contain fractal patterns. This hypothesis originates in a paper by Taylor, Micolich, and Jonas titled which appeared...
[MINI] Noise!!
Our topic for this week is "noise" as in signal vs. noise. This is not a signal processing discussions, but rather a brief introduction to how the work noise is used to describe how much information in a dataset is useless (as opposed to...
Guerilla Skepticism on Wikipedia with Susan Gerbic
Our guest this week is Susan Gerbic. Susan is a skeptical activist involved in many activities, the one we focus on most in this episode is , an organization working to improve the content and citations of Wikipedia. During the episode,...