Not So Standard Deviations

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188 - Everyday Statistics Terms

24 juni 2024 | 41 min

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 juni 2024 | 63 min

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

9 maj 2024 | 58 min

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 februari 2024 | 45 min

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 februari 2024 | 46 min

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 januari 2024 | 74 min

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 januari 2024 | 58 min

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 november 2023 | 61 min

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

4 oktober 2023 | 48 min

Hilary and Roger discuss how to improve ChatGPT interactions and important lessons learned from Terminator 2.

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179 - AI Grand Strategy

6 september 2023 | 75 min

Hilary and Roger are discussing Python in Excel, speed cubing data, and a grand strategy for AI weapons.

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Python in Excel

World Cube Association

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178 - Hilary is Cranky About Everything

22 augusti 2023 | 66 min

Hilary and Roger discuss data vs. oil, large language models, automated vehicles, and Hilary contributes to Roger’s research.

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Catching up with the weird world of LLMs

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177 - We’re Back!

12 augusti 2023 | 68 min

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?

3 maj 2023 | 63 min

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 april 2023 | 59 min

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

4 april 2023 | 81 min

Hilary and Roger debate the impacts and time horizon of ChatGPT and its competitors.

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173 - Narrative Diagrams

14 mars 2023 | 71 min

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 februari 2023 | 64 min

Hilary and Roger winge about Twitter, correct the record about dbt, and consider more counterfactuals.

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JP Morgan Chase lawsuit against Frank

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171 - Orchestrating the Reverse ETL

3 februari 2023 | 69 min

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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Palantir news release

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170 - An Abbreviated Episode

13 januari 2023 | 55 min

Hilary spills a smoothie and coffee and Roger starts teaching again.

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169 - Farewell 2022

16 december 2022 | 57 min

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

3 december 2022 | 65 min

Hilary and Roger design a coffee experiment, sell some mugs, and discuss Roger’s college transcript.

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Not So Standard Mugs

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167 - Twilight of the Bird

21 november 2022 | 72 min

Hilary and Roger follow up on DALL-E and discuss the main topic of the day – Twitter and whether there are any viable alternatives.

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Roger as Cowboy

Roger’s Postdoc Ad: https://rdpeng.org/postdoc.html

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166 - Podcast in the Style of Data

7 oktober 2022 | 72 min

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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Bootcut Jeans Anthropologie

Bootcut Jeans Uniqlo

Bootcut Jeans Etsy

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165 - QR No-Code

22 september 2022 | 81 min

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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UT Austin Statistics and Data Sciences

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164 - What is Data Science?

10 september 2022 | 65 min

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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Introduction to Modern Statistics

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163 - Life Extension Juice

10 augusti 2022 | 63 min

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 juli 2022 | 60 min

Hilary and Roger discuss the upcoming RStudio Conference and figure out what talks Roger should go to.

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161 - CoPodcasting

15 juli 2022 | 75 min

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

5 juli 2022 | 67 min

Hilary is fresh from raising capital and Roger thinks they should start a TikTok account.

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Paper that Roger Meant to Write but Didn’t

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159 - Ecosystems vs. Platforms

15 juni 2022 | 61 min

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

1 juni 2022 | 56 min

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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Fit without fear: remarkable mathematical phenomena of deep learning through the prism of interpolation

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157 - Early Morning Vibe

5 maj 2022 | 64 min

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 april 2022 | 67 min

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 april 2022 | 60 min

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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Tensorflow MacOS

Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.

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154 - Just Tweak Some Parameters

4 april 2022 | 67 min

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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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan

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153 - Bee to Bee to Cee

7 mars 2022 | 66 min

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 februari 2022 | 63 min

Hilary and Roger continue to track Roger’s deep learning journey.

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Robert Nowak’s IMS Medallion Lecture

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151 - How Deep Is The Learning?

7 februari 2022 | 60 min

Hilary and Roger discuss Twitter Spaces, career advice, and deep learning.

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Deep Learning Book

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150 - Microdosing Data Science

24 januari 2022 | 57 min

Hilary and Roger discuss Sir David Cox, esport competitions, and hand out more bad career advice.

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Sir David Cox

The Cox Model

Financial Modeling World Cup Finals

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149 - Data Analyst End Game

7 januari 2022 | 64 min

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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The Missing Analytics Executive

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148 - Not The Holiday Episode You Were Hoping For

28 december 2021 | 13 min

Roger and Hilary discuss the meaning of the Christmas spirit.

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147 - Data Science TPS Reports

10 december 2021 | 74 min

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

1 december 2021 | 60 min

Hilary and Roger follow up on Zillow, talk about negotiation in data science, and discuss the title of data scientist.

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WSJ Article on Zillow

Hilary Parker on Casual Inference Podcast

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145 - Get Used to Being Unhappy

12 november 2021 | 69 min

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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Episode 35 with Sean Taylor

What Data Folk Were Saying About Zillow

Trajectory Design of the Lucy Mission

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144 - Taxonomy of Misery

29 oktober 2021 | 56 min

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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Theranos Ask a Manager

File Not Found

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143 - Analytic Discovery Process

18 oktober 2021 | 57 min

Hilary and Roger discuss scientific discovery vs. building and designing analyses, Hilary giving bad advice, and Hilary’s new career!

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Analytics Power Hour

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142 - Truth or Useful

4 oktober 2021 | 64 min

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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Latin square

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141 - Useful Models

20 september 2021 | 63 min

Hilary and Roger discuss whether models should be correct or useful.

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140 - Booboo Detection

7 september 2021 | 54 min

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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139 - Eliciting Chocolate

20 augusti 2021 | 72 min

Hilary and Roger discuss Internet woes, mugs, data editors, and user testing chocolate.

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Cacao ceremony

Esalen

The Good Chocolate

Certified Software by Zhong Shao

Support us on Patreon page

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138 - Big Brothering It

6 augusti 2021 | 55 min

Hilary and Roger compare mugs and then follow up on how to incentivize data quality assurance.

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Hilary’s thread on data checking

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137 - Getting to Right

23 juli 2021 | 65 min

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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