Being Bayesian
This episode explores the root concept of what it is to be Bayesian: describing knowledge of a system probabilistically, having an appropriate prior probability, know how to weigh new evidence, and fo...
26 Okt 201824min
Modeling Fake News
This is our interview with Dorje Brody about his recent paper with David Meier, How to model fake news. This paper uses the tools of communication theory and a sub-topic called filtering theory to des...
19 Okt 201833min
The Louvain Method for Community Detection
Without getting into definitions, we have an intuitive sense of what a "community" is. The Louvain Method for Community Detection is one of the best known mathematical techniques designed to detect co...
12 Okt 201826min
Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus
In this episode, our guest is Dan Kahan about his research into how people consume and interpret science news. In an era of fake news, motivated reasoning, and alternative facts, important questions n...
5 Okt 201831min
False Discovery Rates
A false discovery rate (FDR) is a methodology that can be useful when struggling with the problem of multiple comparisons. In any experiment, if the experimenter checks more than one dependent variabl...
28 Sep 201825min
Deep Fakes
Digital videos can be described as sequences of still images and associated audio. Audio is easy to fake. What about video? A video can easily be broken down into a sequence of still images replayed r...
21 Sep 201830min
Fake News Midterm
In this episode, Kyle reviews what we've learned so far in our series on Fake News and talks briefly about where we're going next.
14 Sep 201819min
Quality Score
Two weeks ago we discussed click through rates or CTRs and their usefulness and limits as a metric. Today, we discuss a related metric known as quality score. While that phrase has probably been used ...
7 Sep 201818min
