Guerilla Skepticism on Wikipedia with Susan Gerbic
Our guest this week is Susan Gerbic. Susan is a skeptical activist involved in many activities, the one we focus on most in this episode is Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia, an organization working t...
15 Aug 20141h 9min
[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 wal...
8 Aug 201415min
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 recommend...
1 Aug 201457min
[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 ...
25 Jul 20140s
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. Th...
18 Jul 201433min
[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.
11 Jul 201415min
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 busin...
7 Jul 201449min
[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.
27 Jun 201411min
