Explore every episode of the podcast Not So Standard Deviations
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| 189 - LLMs and Data Science | 05 Aug 2024 | 01:07:08 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss Hilary’s Use R! keynote presentation, LLMs and R, and whether R (or any programming language) has a future. Also, a brief preview of Roger’s JSM 2024 talk.
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| 188 - Everyday Statistics Terms | 24 Jun 2024 | 00:41:10 | |
Hilary and Roger talk about the commonplace usage of statistics terminology, Apple’s recent AI announcements, and Microsoft’s Recall feature.
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| 179 - AI Grand Strategy | 06 Sep 2023 | 01:14:30 | |
Hilary and Roger are discussing Python in Excel, speed cubing data, and a grand strategy for AI weapons.
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| 178 - Hilary is Cranky About Everything | 22 Aug 2023 | 01:05:48 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss data vs. oil, large language models, automated vehicles, and Hilary contributes to Roger’s research.
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| 177 - We’re Back! | 12 Aug 2023 | 01:07:58 | |
Hilary and Roger return to see if anything has changed in the world since they took their break. Topics include the changing world of social media and the “data as oil” metaphor.
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| 176 - Is R the Worst? | 03 May 2023 | 01:02:31 | |
Hilary and Roger make a special announcement and discuss large language models, prompt engineering, and the frustration of teaching R these days.
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| 175 - Apocalypse Later | 17 Apr 2023 | 00:58:39 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss Posit ads and continue the discussion of ChatGPT and AI (including AI movies!)
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| 174 - The Future Was Here | 04 Apr 2023 | 01:21:26 | |
Hilary and Roger debate the impacts and time horizon of ChatGPT and its competitors.
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| 173 - Narrative Diagrams | 14 Mar 2023 | 01:11:18 | |
Hilary and Roger reflect on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, discuss what the goal of data version control is, and critique Roger’s idea for a way to learn from other people’s data analyses.
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| 172 - Efficient Counterfactuals | 17 Feb 2023 | 01:04:15 | |
Hilary and Roger winge about Twitter, correct the record about dbt, and consider more counterfactuals.
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| 171 - Orchestrating the Reverse ETL | 03 Feb 2023 | 01:08:33 | |
Hilary recovers from COVID while Roger throws various difficult discussion topics at her. They talk about Charlie Javice, Data Day Texas, Posit / Palantir, and classified documents.
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| 170 - An Abbreviated Episode | 13 Jan 2023 | 00:55:19 | |
Hilary spills a smoothie and coffee and Roger starts teaching again.
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| 187 - Building Robot Hilary | 11 Jun 2024 | 01:03:25 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss limitations of AI image generation and the possibility of replacing both podcast hosts with robots.
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| 169 - Farewell 2022 | 16 Dec 2022 | 00:57:29 | |
Hilary and Roger close out the year discussing brain biomarkers, ChatGPT and AI art, and Roger’s failed experiment with a rocket company.
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| 168 - Mugs for Data Science | 03 Dec 2022 | 01:04:46 | |
Hilary and Roger design a coffee experiment, sell some mugs, and discuss Roger’s college transcript.
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| 167 - Twilight of the Bird | 21 Nov 2022 | 01:11:34 | |
Hilary and Roger follow up on DALL-E and discuss the main topic of the day – Twitter and whether there are any viable alternatives. Show Notes: Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell
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| 166 - Podcast in the Style of Data | 07 Oct 2022 | 01:11:52 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss Roger’s latest coffee conundrum, remaking the 2007 Apple store, and using DALL-E for ad campaigns. And Roger is hiring a postdoc!
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| 165 - QR No-Code | 22 Sep 2022 | 01:21:02 | |
Hilary and Roger celebrate their podcast-iversary by discussing The Dropout, Hilary’s startup experience, and developing a totally straightforward system for living in two different locations.
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| 164 - What is Data Science? | 10 Sep 2022 | 01:05:09 | |
Hilary and Roger are back after a short break to discuss Roger’s new job, the meaning of data science, and limited liability algorithms.
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| 163 - Life Extension Juice | 10 Aug 2022 | 01:03:20 | |
Hilary and Roger reflect on rstudio::conf(2022) and follow up on assumptions vs. constraints for statistical methods.
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| 162 - Conference Planning | 29 Jul 2022 | 00:59:45 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss the upcoming RStudio Conference and figure out what talks Roger should go to.
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| 161 - CoPodcasting | 15 Jul 2022 | 01:14:37 | |
Hilary and Roger follow up on TikTok, Twitter, and then discuss why statisticians are so bad at training people in data analysis.
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| 160 - Sentient Podcast | 05 Jul 2022 | 01:07:04 | |
Hilary is fresh from raising capital and Roger thinks they should start a TikTok account.
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| 186 - Humanoid Robots | 09 May 2024 | 00:57:30 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss the latest AI news, open source Llama, and the prospect of humanoid robots.
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| 159 - Ecosystems vs. Platforms | 15 Jun 2022 | 01:01:09 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss deprecated packages, the tidyverse ecosystem, the end of fashion, creators and platforms, and whether certain people understand data science.
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| 158 - Getting the Email | 01 Jun 2022 | 00:56:12 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss testing apps on iPods, updating R packages and getting the “email” from CRAN, and going back to conferences.
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| 157 - Early Morning Vibe | 05 May 2022 | 01:04:02 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss Docker for analytic pipelines, deep learning, the right/wrong way to get feedback, and the future of Twitter.
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| 156 - Hilary’s New Job | 20 Apr 2022 | 01:06:54 | |
Hilary and Roger talk about Hilary’s new job as Chief Technology Officer of Indyx.
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| 155 - I Just Wanna ML | 12 Apr 2022 | 00:59:38 | |
Hilary is back from special assignment in the Yukon. She and Roger talk about prediction modeling (and how Hilary hates it), self-driving cars, and chatting (or not) with virtual agents.
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| 154 - Just Tweak Some Parameters | 04 Apr 2022 | 01:06:50 | |
Roger welcomes back Lucy D’Agostino McGowan to the show to discuss building prediction models and how they may or may not relate to causal inference.
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| 153 - Bee to Bee to Cee | 07 Mar 2022 | 01:06:12 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss whether they understand their models, changing programming languages, using RStudio for everything, and deep learning.
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| 152 - Totally Normal | 21 Feb 2022 | 01:02:57 | |
Hilary and Roger continue to track Roger’s deep learning journey.
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| 151 - How Deep Is The Learning? | 07 Feb 2022 | 00:59:58 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss Twitter Spaces, career advice, and deep learning.
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| 150 - Microdosing Data Science | 24 Jan 2022 | 00:56:42 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss Sir David Cox, esport competitions, and hand out more bad career advice.
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| 185 - Consultation Lessons Learned | 26 Feb 2024 | 00:44:45 | |
Roger and Hilary talk about a consulting engagement gone wrong and whether there have been any good consulting engagements.
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| 149 - Data Analyst End Game | 07 Jan 2022 | 01:04:05 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss Theranos (for the last time??), Excel as e-sport, and Hilary gives some more bad career advice.
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| 148 - Not The Holiday Episode You Were Hoping For | 28 Dec 2021 | 00:12:47 | |
Roger and Hilary discuss the meaning of the Christmas spirit. Show Notes:
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| 147 - Data Science TPS Reports | 10 Dec 2021 | 01:13:50 | |
Hilary and Roger have a winding discussion about rubrics and check lists. And Hilary observed a functional data science team in the wild.
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| 146 - Riding the Data Scientist Title | 01 Dec 2021 | 00:59:55 | |
Hilary and Roger follow up on Zillow, talk about negotiation in data science, and discuss the title of data scientist.
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| 145 - Get Used to Being Unhappy | 12 Nov 2021 | 01:08:50 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss data analysis and communication, analysis correctness, Zillow Offers, and another installment of Hilary’s Bad Career Advice.
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| 144 - Taxonomy of Misery | 29 Oct 2021 | 00:55:31 | |
Hilary and Roger inaugurate a new segment: Hilary’s Bad Advice. Also they discuss spacecraft trajectories calculated with Excel, Theranos, filesystems, and San Francisco data analysis politics.
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| 143 - Analytic Discovery Process | 18 Oct 2021 | 00:56:33 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss scientific discovery vs. building and designing analyses, Hilary giving bad advice, and Hilary’s new career!
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| 142 - Truth or Useful | 04 Oct 2021 | 01:04:17 | |
Hilary and Roger keep track of the Elizabeth Holmes trial, follow up on useful models and formal analysis, and discuss data analysis requirements and experimental design.
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| 141 - Useful Models | 20 Sep 2021 | 01:02:53 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss whether models should be correct or useful.
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| 140 - Booboo Detection | 07 Sep 2021 | 00:53:57 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss the upcoming Elizabeth Holmes trial, hot tea, distraction free computing, and designing a study for detecting data booboos. Also, Roger has a new Patreon benefit!
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| 184 - Unknown Unknowns | 16 Feb 2024 | 00:46:15 | |
Hilary and Roger talk about whether it might be better if ChatGPT didn’t give you what you wanted.
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| 139 - Eliciting Chocolate | 20 Aug 2021 | 01:11:39 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss Internet woes, mugs, data editors, and user testing chocolate.
Show Notes: Certified Software by Zhong Shao
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| 138 - Big Brothering It | 06 Aug 2021 | 00:54:50 | |
Hilary and Roger compare mugs and then follow up on how to incentivize data quality assurance.
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| 137 - Getting to Right | 23 Jul 2021 | 01:04:45 | |
Hilary and Roger follow up on GitHub Copilot, discuss SAS (briefly!), and talk about ways in which people determine that data are “right”.
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| 136 - Dream Solution | 08 Jul 2021 | 01:08:41 | |
Hilary and Roger talk about tidymodels one more time with listener feedback, discuss the central question of data science, alternate ways to characterize uncertainty, and GitHub Copilot.
Show Notes: Hill’s Criteria for Data Scientists - https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2016/12/15/hill-for-the-data-scientist-an-xkcd-story/ Support us through our Patreon page Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell | |||