Not So Standard Deviations
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Not So Standard Deviations
Roger Peng and Hilary Parker talk about the latest in data science and data analysis in academia and industry.
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190 - Indefinite Leave
190 - Indefinite Leave
After a very brief summary of the changing data science landscape, Hilary and Roger do not actually end the podca...
189 - LLMs and Data Science
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 pre...
188 - Everyday Statistics Terms
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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 pred...
181 - Welcome to the Parkerverse
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
Hilary and Roger discuss how to improve ChatGPT interactions and important lessons learned from Terminator 2.
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179 - AI Grand Strategy
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
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!
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...
176 - Is R the Worst?
Hilary and Roger make a special announcement and discuss large language models, prompt engineering, and the frustration of teaching R these days.
175 - Apocalypse Later
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
Hilary and Roger debate the impacts and time horizon of ChatGPT and its competitors.
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173 - Narrative Diagrams
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...
172 - Efficient Counterfactuals
Hilary and Roger winge about Twitter, correct the record about dbt, and consider more counterfactuals.
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171 - Orchestrating the Reverse ETL
Hilary recovers from COVID while Roger throws various difficult discussion topics at her. They talk about Charlie Javice, Data Day Texas, Posit / Pala...
170 - An Abbreviated Episode
Hilary spills a smoothie and coffee and Roger starts teaching again.
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169 - Farewell 2022
Hilary and Roger close out the year discussing brain biomarkers, ChatGPT and AI art, and Roger’s failed experiment with a rocket company.
168 - Mugs for Data Science
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
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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166 - Podcast in the Style of Data
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 post...
165 - QR No-Code
Hilary and Roger celebrate their podcast-iversary by discussing The Dropout, Hilary’s startup experience, and developing a totally straightforward sys...
164 - What is Data Science?
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
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
Hilary and Roger discuss the upcoming RStudio Conference and figure out what talks Roger should go to.
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161 - CoPodcasting
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
Hilary is fresh from raising capital and Roger thinks they should start a TikTok account.
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159 - Ecosystems vs. Platforms
Hilary and Roger discuss deprecated packages, the tidyverse ecosystem, the end of fashion, creators and platforms, and whether certain people understa...
158 - Getting the Email
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
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
Hilary and Roger talk about Hilary’s new job as Chief Technology Officer of Indyx.
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155 - I Just Wanna ML
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 ch...
154 - Just Tweak Some Parameters
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.<...
153 - Bee to Bee to Cee
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152 - Totally Normal
Hilary and Roger continue to track Roger’s deep learning journey.
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151 - How Deep Is The Learning?
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Robert Nowak’s IMS Medallion Lecture
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