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Erin Boyle, the Head of Data Science at Myst AI, joins us today to talk about her work with Myst AI, a time series forecasting platform and service with the objective for positively impacting sustainability. https://docs.myst.ai/docs Visit Weights and Biases at wandb.me/dataskeptic Find Better Data Faster with Nomad Data. Visit nomad-data.com

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Data Skeptic is a data science podcast exploring machine learning, statistics, artificial intelligence, and other data topics through short tutorials and interviews with domain experts.

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[MINI] Selection Bias: A discussion about conducting US presidential election polls helps frame a converation about selection bias. by Data Skeptic
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Jackson Pollock Authentication Analysis with Kate Jones-Smith: Our guest this week is Hamilton physics professor Kate Jones-Smith 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,... by Data Skeptic
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$Jackson Pollock Authentication Analysis with Kate Jones-Smith: Our guest this week is Hamilton physics professor Kate Jones-Smith who joins us to discuss the evidence for the claim that drip paintings of Jackson Pollock contain fractal patterns. This hypothesis originates in a paper by Taylor, Micolich,...$
[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... by Data Skeptic
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The Right (big data) Tool for the Job with Jay Shankar: In this week's episode, we discuss applied solutions to big data problem with big data engineer Jay Shankar. The episode explores approaches and design philosophy to solving real world big data business problems, and the exploration of the wide... by Data Skeptic
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Introduction: The Data Skeptic Podcast features conversations with 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... by Data Skeptic
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Advertising Attribution with Nathan Janos: A conversation with Convertro's Nathan Janos about methodologies used to help advertisers understand the affect each of their marketing efforts (print, SEM, display, skywriting, etc.) contributes to their overall return. by Data Skeptic
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[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. by Data Skeptic
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[MINI] Confidence Intervals: Commute times and BBQ invites help frame a discussion about the statistical concept of confidence intervals. by Data Skeptic
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[MINI] Bayesian Updating: In this minisode, we discuss Bayesian Updating - the process by which one can calculate the most likely hypothesis might be true given one's older / prior belief and all new evidence. by Data Skeptic
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[MINI] Cross Validation: This miniepisode discusses the technique called Cross Validation - a process by which one randomly divides up a dataset into numerous small partitions. Next, (typically) one is held out, and the rest are used to train some model. The hold out set can... by Data Skeptic
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[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... by Data Skeptic
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[MINI] p-values: In this mini, we discuss p-values and their use in hypothesis testing, in the context of an hypothetical experiment on plant flowering, and end with a reference to the Particle Fever documentary and how statistical significance played a role. by Data Skeptic
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[MINI] Partially Observable State Spaces: When dealing with dynamic systems that are potentially undergoing constant change, its helpful to describe what "state" they are in. In many applications the manner in which the state changes from one to another is not completely predictable,... by Data Skeptic
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Personalized Medicine with Niki Athanasiadou: In the second full length episode of the podcast, we discuss the current state of personalized medicine and the advancements in genetics that have made it possible. by Data Skeptic
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[MINI] k-means clustering: The k-means clustering algorithm is an algorithm that computes a deterministic label for a given "k" number of clusters from an n-dimensional datset. This mini-episode explores how Yoshi, our lilac crowned amazon's biological processes might be... by Data Skeptic
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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... by Data Skeptic
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[MINI] The Girlfriend Equation: Economist Peter Backus put forward "The Girlfriend Equation" while working on his PhD - a probabilistic model attempting to estimate the likelihood of him finding a girlfriend. In this mini episode we explore the soundness of his model and also share... by Data Skeptic
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[MINI] Experimental Design: This episode loosely explores the topic of Experimental Design including hypothesis testing, the importance of statistical tests, and an everyday and business example. by Data Skeptic
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[MINI] type i / type ii errors: In this first mini-episode of the Data Skeptic Podcast, we define and discuss type i and type ii errors (a.k.a. false positives and false negatives). by Data Skeptic
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[MINI] R-squared: How well does your model explain your data? R-squared is a useful statistic for answering this question. In this episode we explore how it applies to the problem of valuing a house. Aspects like the number of bedrooms go a long way in explaining why... by Data Skeptic
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Streetlight Outage and Crime Rate Analysis with Zach Seeskin: This episode features a discussion with statistics PhD student Zach Seeskin about a project he was involved in as part of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship. The project involved exploring the... by Data Skeptic
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Shadow Profiles on Social Networks: Emre Sarigol joins me this week to discuss his paper Online Privacy as a Collective Phenomenon. This paper studies data collected from social networks and how the sharing behaviors of individuals can unintentionally reveal private... by Data Skeptic
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[MINI] Ant Colony Optimization: In this week's mini episode, Linhda and Kyle discuss Ant Colony Optimization - a numerical / stochastic optimization technique which models its search after the process ants employ in using random walks to find a goal (food) and then leaving a... by Data Skeptic
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Data in Healthcare IT with Shahid Shah: Our guest this week is Shahid Shah. Shahid is CEO at Netspective, and writes three blogs: Health Care Guy, Shahid Shah, and HitSphere - the Healthcare IT Supersite. During the program, Kyle recommended a talk from the 2014 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium... by Data Skeptic
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Easily Fooling Deep Neural Networks: My guest this week is Anh Nguyen, a PhD student at the University of Wyoming working in the Evolving AI lab. The episode discusses the paper Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled [pdf] by Anh Nguyen, Jason Yosinski, and Jeff Clune. It... by Data Skeptic
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[MINI] Markov Chains: This episode introduces the idea of a Markov Chain. A Markov Chain has a set of states describing a particular system, and a probability of moving from one state to another along every valid connected state. Markov Chains are memoryless, meaning they... by Data Skeptic
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[MINI] The T-Test: The t-test is this week's mini-episode topic. The t-test is a statistical testing procedure used to determine if the mean of two datasets differs by a statistically significant amount. We discuss how a wine manufacturer might apply a t-test to... by Data Skeptic
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Data Myths with Karl Mamer: Black out baby boom | Subliminal messages | Beer and Diapers by Data Skeptic
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Mapping Reddit Topics with Randy Olson: My quest this week is noteworthy a.i. researcher Randy Olson who joins me to share his work creating the Reddit World Map - a visualization that illuminates clusters in the reddit community based on user behavior. Randy's blog... by Data Skeptic
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