Explore every episode of the podcast Not So Standard Deviations
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| 189 - LLMs and Data Science | 05 août 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 juin 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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| 187 - Building Robot Hilary | 11 juin 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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| 186 - Humanoid Robots | 09 mai 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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| 185 - Consultation Lessons Learned | 26 févr. 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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| 184 - Unknown Unknowns | 16 févr. 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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| 183 - What’s an Informative Tool? | 31 janv. 2024 | 01:14:14 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss what makes a data analytic tool informative for a given problem and Hilary, predictably, gets furious.
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| 182 - The Best CEOs Not Named Hilary | 10 janv. 2024 | 00:57:32 | |
Hilary and Roger ring in the new year with some discussion of AI and data science, Roger’s upcoming spring semester data science course, and some predictions for 2024.
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| 181 - Welcome to the Parkerverse | 15 nov. 2023 | 01:01:02 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss Hilary’s new ChatGPT consulting business and tease the future of data analysis with AI.
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| 180 - Lessons from T2 | 04 oct. 2023 | 00:47:35 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss how to improve ChatGPT interactions and important lessons learned from Terminator 2.
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| 179 - AI Grand Strategy | 06 sept. 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 août 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 août 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 mai 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 avr. 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 avr. 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 mars 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 févr. 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 févr. 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 janv. 2023 | 00:55:19 | |
Hilary spills a smoothie and coffee and Roger starts teaching again.
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| 169 - Farewell 2022 | 16 déc. 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 déc. 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 sept. 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 sept. 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 août 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 juil. 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 juil. 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 juil. 2022 | 01:07:04 | |
Hilary is fresh from raising capital and Roger thinks they should start a TikTok account.
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| 159 - Ecosystems vs. Platforms | 15 juin 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 juin 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 mai 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 avr. 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 avr. 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 avr. 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 mars 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 févr. 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 févr. 2022 | 00:59:58 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss Twitter Spaces, career advice, and deep learning.
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| 150 - Microdosing Data Science | 24 janv. 2022 | 00:56:42 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss Sir David Cox, esport competitions, and hand out more bad career advice.
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| 149 - Data Analyst End Game | 07 janv. 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 déc. 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 déc. 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 déc. 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 sept. 2021 | 01:02:53 | |
Hilary and Roger discuss whether models should be correct or useful.
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| 140 - Booboo Detection | 07 sept. 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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