The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, stati
When humans describe images, they have a reporting bias, in that the report only what they consider
Survival analysis techniques are useful for studying the longevity of groups of elements or individu
This week is an insightful discussion with Claudia Perlich about some situations in machine learning
An ROC curve is a plot that compares the trade off of true positives and false positives of a binary
I'm joined by Chris Stucchio this week to discuss how deliberate or uninformed statistical practitio
If you'd like to make a good prediction, your best bet is to invent a time machine, visit the future
Kristian Lum (@KLdivergence) joins me this week to discuss her work at @hrdag on predictive policing
Distributed computing cannot guarantee consistency, accuracy, and partition tolerance. Most system a
A startup is claiming that they can detect terrorists purely through facial recognition. In this sol
Goodhart's law states that "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". In thi
I'm joined this week by Jon Morra, director of data science at eHarmony to discuss a variety of ways
Mystery shoppers and fruit cultivation help us discuss stationarity - a property of some time series
I'm joined by Wes McKinney (@wesmckinn) and Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) on this episode to discu
Bargaining is the process of two (or more) parties attempting to agree on the price for a transactio
Deepjazz is a project from Ji-Sung Kim, a computer science student at Princeton University. It is bu
When working with time series data, there are a number of important diagnostics one should consid
This week I spoke with Elham Shaabani and Paulo Shakarian (@PauloShakASU) about their recent paper E
A dinner party at Data Skeptic HQ helps teach the uses of fractional factorial design for studying 2
Cheng-tao Chu (@chengtao_chu) joins us this week to discuss his perspective on common mistakes and p
Co-host Linh Da was in a biking accident after hitting a pothole. She sustained an injury that requi
