The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, stati
Elizabeth Lee from CyArk joins us in this episode to share stories of the work done capturing impor
Linhda and Kyle review a New York Times article titled How Your Hometown Affects Your Chances of Ma
With the advent of algorithms capable of beating highly ranked chess players, the temptation to che
This week's episode dicusses z-scores, also known as standard score. This score describes the dista
This week Noelle Sio Saldana discusses her volunteer work at Crisis Text Line - a 24/7 service that
Have you ever wondered what is lost when you compress a song into an MP3? This week's guest Ryan Ma
This episode contains converage of the 2015 Data Fest hosted at UCLA. Data Fest is an analysis comp
For our 50th episode we enduldge a bit by cooking Linhda's previously mentioned "healthy" cornbread.
This episode overviews some of the fundamental concepts of natural language processing including st
Guest Youyou Wu discuses the work she and her collaborators did to measure the accuracy of computer
This episode explores how going wine testing could teach us about using markov chain monte carlo (m
This episode introduces the idea of a Markov Chain. A Markov Chain has a set of states describing a
Nicole Goebel joins us this week to share her experiences in oceanography studying phytoplankton and
This episode explores Ordinary Least Squares or OLS - a method for finding a good fit which describe
New York State approved the use of automated speed cameras within a specific range of schools. Tim
The k-means clustering algorithm is an algorithm that computes a deterministic label for a given "k"
Emre Sarigol joins me this week to discuss his paper Online Privacy as a Collective Phenomenon. Thi
The Chi-Squared test is a methodology for hypothesis testing. When one has categorical data, in the
My quest this week is noteworthy a.i. researcher Randy Olson who joins me to share his work creatin
When dealing with dynamic systems that are potentially undergoing constant change, its helpful to de
