
Preserving History at Cyark
Elizabeth Lee from CyArk joins us in this episode to share stories of the work done capturing important historical sites digitally. CyArk is a non-profit focused on using technology to preserve the wo...
5 Kesä 201523min
![[MINI] A Critical Examination of a Study of Marriage by Political Affiliation](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/99E5B4C49CC9487AB4880B5C8DF050F0_small.jpg)
[MINI] A Critical Examination of a Study of Marriage by Political Affiliation
Linhda and Kyle review a New York Times article titled How Your Hometown Affects Your Chances of Marriage. This article explores research about what correlates with the likelihood of being married by ...
29 Touko 201510min

Detecting Cheating in Chess
With the advent of algorithms capable of beating highly ranked chess players, the temptation to cheat has emmerged as a potential threat to the integrity of this ancient and complex game. Yet, there a...
22 Touko 201544min
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[MINI] z-scores
This week's episode dicusses z-scores, also known as standard score. This score describes the distance (in standard deviations) that an observation is away from the mean of the population. A closely r...
15 Touko 201510min

Using Data to Help Those in Crisis
This week Noelle Sio Saldana discusses her volunteer work at Crisis Text Line - a 24/7 service that connects anyone with crisis counselors. In the episode we discuss Noelle's career and how, as a part...
8 Touko 201534min

The Ghost in the MP3
Have you ever wondered what is lost when you compress a song into an MP3? This week's guest Ryan Maguire did more than that. He worked on software to issolate the sounds that are lost when you convert...
1 Touko 201535min

Data Fest 2015
This episode contains converage of the 2015 Data Fest hosted at UCLA. Data Fest is an analysis competition that gives teams of students 48 hours to explore a new dataset and present novel findings. ...
28 Huhti 201527min
![[MINI] Cornbread and Overdispersion](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/99E5B4C49CC9487AB4880B5C8DF050F0_small.jpg)
[MINI] Cornbread and Overdispersion
For our 50th episode we enduldge a bit by cooking Linhda's previously mentioned "healthy" cornbread. This leads to a discussion of the statistical topic of overdispersion in which the variance of som...
24 Huhti 201515min














