Computer-based Personality Judgments
Guest Youyou Wu discuses the work she and her collaborators did to measure the accuracy of computer based personality judgments. Using Facebook "like" data, they found that machine learning approaches...
10 Apr 201531min
[MINI] Markov Chain Monte Carlo
This episode explores how going wine testing could teach us about using markov chain monte carlo (mcmc).
3 Apr 201515min
[MINI] Markov Chains
This episode introduces the idea of a Markov Chain. A Markov Chain has a set of states describing a particular system, and a probability of moving from one state to another along every valid connected...
20 Mar 201511min
Oceanography and Data Science
Nicole Goebel joins us this week to share her experiences in oceanography studying phytoplankton and other aspects of the ocean and how data plays a role in that science. We also discuss Thinkful ...
13 Mar 201533min
[MINI] Ordinary Least Squares Regression
This episode explores Ordinary Least Squares or OLS - a method for finding a good fit which describes a given dataset.
6 Mar 201518min
NYC Speed Camera Analysis with Tim Schmeier
New York State approved the use of automated speed cameras within a specific range of schools. Tim Schmeier did an analysis of publically available data related to these cameras as part of a project a...
27 Feb 201516min
[MINI] k-means clustering
The k-means clustering algorithm is an algorithm that computes a deterministic label for a given "k" number of clusters from an n-dimensional datset. This mini-episode explores how Yoshi, our lilac c...
20 Feb 201514min
Shadow Profiles on Social Networks
Emre Sarigol joins me this week to discuss his paper Online Privacy as a Collective Phenomenon. This paper studies data collected from social networks and how the sharing behaviors of individuals can ...
13 Feb 201538min
