Electoral Insights (Part 1)
The first of our two-parter discussing the recent electoral data fraud case. The results of the study in question were covered widely, including by This American Life (who later had to issue a retract...
5 Juni 20159min
Falsifying Data
In the first of a few episodes on fraud in election research, we’ll take a look at a case study from a previous Presidential election, where polling results were faked. What are some telltale signs...
1 Juni 201517min
Reporter Bot
There’s a big difference between a table of numbers or statistics, and the underlying story that a human might tell about how those numbers were generated. Think about a baseball game—the game stats...
20 Maj 201511min
Careers in Data Science
Let’s talk money. As a “hot” career right now, data science can pay pretty well. But for an individual person matched with a specific job or industry, how much should someone expect to make? Since K...
16 Maj 201516min
That's "Dr Katie" to You
Katie successfully defended her thesis! We celebrate her return, and talk a bit about what getting a PhD in Physics is like.
14 Maj 20153min
Neural Nets (Part 2)
In the last episode, we zipped through neural nets and got a quick idea of how they work and why they can be so powerful. Here’s the real payoff of that work: In this episode, we’ll talk about a bran...
11 Maj 201510min
Neural Nets (Part 1)
There is no known learning algorithm that is more flexible and powerful than the human brain. That's quite inspirational, if you think about it--to level up machine learning, maybe we should be going ...
1 Maj 20159min
Inferring Authorship (Part 2)
Now that we’re up to speed on the classic author ID problem (who wrote the unsigned Federalist Papers?), we move onto a couple more contemporary examples. First, J.K. Rowling was famously outed usin...
28 Apr 201514min
