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2022-06-15
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158 - Getting the Email

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

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2022-06-01
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157 - Early Morning Vibe

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

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2022-05-05
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156 - Hilary?s New Job

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

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2022-04-20
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155 - I Just Wanna ML

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.

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Tensorflow MacOS

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

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2022-04-12
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154 - Just Tweak Some Parameters

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.

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Lucy D?Agostino McGowan

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2022-04-04
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153 - Bee to Bee to Cee

Hilary and Roger discuss whether they understand their models, changing programming languages, using RStudio for everything, and deep learning.

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2022-03-07
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152 - Totally Normal

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

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Robert Nowak?s IMS Medallion Lecture

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2022-02-21
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151 - How Deep Is The Learning?

Hilary and Roger discuss Twitter Spaces, career advice, and deep learning.

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Deep Learning Book

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2022-02-07
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150 - Microdosing Data Science

Hilary and Roger discuss Sir David Cox, esport competitions, and hand out more bad career advice.

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Sir David Cox

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Financial Modeling World Cup Finals

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2022-01-24
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149 - Data Analyst End Game

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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The Missing Analytics Executive

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2022-01-07
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148 - Not The Holiday Episode You Were Hoping For

Roger and Hilary discuss the meaning of the Christmas spirit.

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2021-12-28
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147 - Data Science TPS Reports

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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2021-12-10
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146 - Riding the Data Scientist Title

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

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WSJ Article on Zillow

Hilary Parker on Casual Inference Podcast

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2021-12-01
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145 - Get Used to Being Unhappy

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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Episode 35 with Sean Taylor

What Data Folk Were Saying About Zillow

Trajectory Design of the Lucy Mission

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2021-11-12
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144 - Taxonomy of Misery

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.

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Theranos Ask a Manager

File Not Found

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2021-10-29
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143 - Analytic Discovery Process

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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2021-10-18
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142 - Truth or Useful

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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2021-10-04
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141 - Useful Models

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

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2021-09-20
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140 - Booboo Detection

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!

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2021-09-07
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139 - Eliciting Chocolate

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

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Cacao ceremony

Esalen

The Good Chocolate

Certified Software by Zhong Shao

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2021-08-20
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138 - Big Brothering It

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

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Hilary?s thread on data checking

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2021-08-06
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137 - Getting to Right

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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Support us on Patreon page

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2021-07-23
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136 - Dream Solution

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.

Show Notes:

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

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2021-07-08
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135 - Moderate Confidence

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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You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

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2021-06-24
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134 - Special Guest Julia Silge

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

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Julia Silge

Trustworthy Data Analysis (Simply Statistics)

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2021-06-10
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133 - Cicada Special

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.

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2021-05-28
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132 - Languishing

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

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2021-05-12
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131 - Email Grab Bag

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

workflowsets package

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2021-04-30
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130 - Four Sigma Club

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

James Hoffman Ultimate French Press Technique

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2021-04-14
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129 - Monetizing False Positives

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

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Tidymodels.org

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2021-04-02
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128 - APIs Have Changed

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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2021-03-20
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127 - A Bottle Episode

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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2021-03-05
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126 - Data Gunslingers

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

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Y2K

Benford?s Law

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2021-02-19
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125 - Inaugural NSSD Fellows

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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2021-02-05
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124 - Analysis Without Data

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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Gyroscopic autopilot

UNISYS and LZW patent

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2021-01-25
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123 - Going On Autopilot

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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2021-01-11
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122 - One Hot 2020

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!

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How Bad is Your Spotify?

What is AI?

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2020-12-29
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121 - Global Statistical Event

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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2020-12-11
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120 - Debugging Data Analysis

Hilary and Roger discuss a systematic framework for debugging.

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Allison Horst data science illustrations

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2020-12-01
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119 - Election Night Data Science

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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Failure Modes and Effects Analysis with COVID-19

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2020-11-13
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118 - Special Guest Lucy D?Agostino McGowan

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?

Show Notes:

Lucy D?Agostino McGowan

Why is Cats? by Lindsay Ellis

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

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2020-10-29
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117 - Failing in Statistics

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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Palantir should be investigated

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2020-10-16
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116 - Coffee Data Science Mashup

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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2020-10-03
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115 - Five Year Anniversary

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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2020-09-22
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114 - We Need TikTok Help

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