Automated Fact Checking
Fake news can be responded to with fact-checking. However, it's easier to create fake news than the fact check it. Full Fact is the UK's independent fact-checking organization. In this episode, Kyle i...
16 Nov 201831min
[MINI] Single Source of Truth
In mathematics, truth is universal. In data, truth lies in the where clause of the query. As large organizations have grown to rely on their data more significantly for decision making, a common prob...
9 Nov 201829min
Detecting Fast Radio Bursts with Deep Learning
Fast radio bursts are an astrophysical phenomenon first observed in 2007. While many observations have been made, science has yet to explain the mechanism for these events. This has led some to ask: c...
2 Nov 201844min
Being Bayesian
This episode explores the root concept of what it is to be Bayesian: describing knowledge of a system probabilistically, having an appropriate prior probability, know how to weigh new evidence, and fo...
26 Okt 201824min
Modeling Fake News
This is our interview with Dorje Brody about his recent paper with David Meier, How to model fake news. This paper uses the tools of communication theory and a sub-topic called filtering theory to des...
19 Okt 201833min
The Louvain Method for Community Detection
Without getting into definitions, we have an intuitive sense of what a "community" is. The Louvain Method for Community Detection is one of the best known mathematical techniques designed to detect co...
12 Okt 201826min
Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus
In this episode, our guest is Dan Kahan about his research into how people consume and interpret science news. In an era of fake news, motivated reasoning, and alternative facts, important questions n...
5 Okt 201831min
False Discovery Rates
A false discovery rate (FDR) is a methodology that can be useful when struggling with the problem of multiple comparisons. In any experiment, if the experimenter checks more than one dependent variabl...
28 Sep 201825min
