Opinion Dynamics Models
On the show today, Dino Carpentras, a post-doctoral researcher at the Computational Social Science group at ETH Zürich joins us to discuss how opinion dynamics models are built and validated. He expla...
6 Feb 202335min
Casual Affective Triggers
Crafting survey questions is one thing but getting your audience to fill it is yet another. On the show today, we speak with Alexander Nolte, an Associate Professor at the University of Tartu. Alexand...
30 Jan 202335min
Conversational Surveys
Traditional surveys have straight-jacket questions to be answered, thus restricting the information that can be gotten. Today, Ziang Xiao, a Postdoc Researcher in the FATE group at Microsoft Research ...
23 Jan 202339min
Do Results Generalize for Privacy and Security Surveys
Today, Jenny Tang, a Ph.D. student of societal computing at Carnegie Mellon University discusses her work on the generalization of privacy and security surveys on platforms such as Amazon MTurk and Pr...
17 Jan 202340min
4 out of 5 Data Scientists Agree
This episode kicks off the new season of the show, Data Skeptic: Surveys. Linhda rejoins the show for a conversation with Kyle about her experience taking surveys and what questions she has for the s...
10 Jan 202328min
Crowdfunded Board Games
It may be intuitive to think crowdfunding a project drives its innovation and novelty, but there are no empirical studies that prove this. On the show, Johannes Wachs shares his research that sought t...
26 Dec 202234min
Russian Election Interference Effectiveness
There were reports of Russia's interference in the 2016 US elections. In today's episode, Koustuv Saha, a researcher at Microsoft Research walks us through the effect of targeted ads for political cam...
19 Dec 202241min
Placement Laundering Fraud
There is an unsung kind of ad fraud brewing in the ad tech space — placement laundering fraud. On the show, Jeff Kline discusses what placement laundering fraud is, how it can be identified, and possi...
15 Dec 202232min
