Not So Standard Deviations

Hilary and Roger discuss past research on social networks, more Facebook, corner cases in success in data analysis, and John Carreyrou's book Bad Blood.

Show notes:

Roger's original post on data analysis success

John Carreyrou's Bad Blood

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Hilary and Roger follow up on Uber's self-driving car accident, sensitivity and specificity, Ronald Fisher's final destination, and Wes McKinney's announcement of Ursa Labs. Also, this episode debuts a new segment: Hilary at Work!

Show notes:

Cambridge Analytica shutting down: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/05/cambridge-analytica-is-shutting-down/

Sensitivity and specificity for automated cars: Uber report - https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/7/17327682/uber-self-driving-car-decision-kill-swerve

Sensitivity and specificity revisited - “Amazon, laugh”: https://www.geekwire.com/2018/mystery-solved-amazon-explains-cracked-alexa-ais-laugh-response-will-change/

International chart day: https://twitter.com/repmarktakano/status/989588551443664896?s=21

NSSD Episode 7 "Statistical Royalty" where Hilary meets Gosset's great-great-grandson: http://nssdeviations.com/episode-7-statistical-royalty

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Hilary and Roger discuss design and data analysis, the recent Women in Analytics Conference at Facebook, presentation formats, and the value of PhD training.

Show notes:

Hilary's presentation slides

Roger's blog post on Simply Statistics

Stacked pie charts

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Hilary and Roger discuss the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook story, what explainable AI tries to get at, and Hilary's secret trick for data analysis. Also, we respond to some listener questions and feedback.

Show notes:

What You Need to Know About Air France Flight 447

Perth cycle group draws a numbat

XKCD on violin plots

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Roger and Hilary respond to some listener feedback and questions and get sidetracked into a long discussion about transporting data analytic techniques from one context to another. Also the return of free advertising!

Show notes:

Elizabeth Holmes charged with fraud: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-41

Storytelling with data podcast with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic: http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/podcast/

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Hilary and Roger discuss limiting the number of loaded R packages, more Microsoft, whether A/B testing is dead, and transcendental meditation.

Show notes:

Follow up on number of DLLs allowed: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36974206/error-maximal-number-of-dlls-reached

David Smith's Blog post: https://twitter.com/revodavid/status/963468355536605184

CRAN Task view for parallel programming: https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/HighPerformanceComputing.html

A Model of the Universe: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/movingintostillness/a-model-of-the-universe-t4949.html

A/B testing is dead: https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/05/optimizelys-decision-to-ditch-its-free-plan-suggests-a-b-website-testing-is-dead/

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Hilary and Roger follow up on his talk at WEHI and the discussion on intelligence analysts. They also discuss Microsoft's R-related tools, movie spoilers, and other miscellaneous topics.

Show notes:

Design sprint Episode 48: http://nssdeviations.com/48-peak-salesperson-mode

RevoScaleR: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/machine-learning-server/r-reference/revoscaler/revoscaler

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Hilary and Roger discuss the connection between intelligence analysts and data scientists, and Hilary helps Roger prepare for an upcoming talk.

Show notes:

Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL - https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/03/16/engineers-shouldnt-write-etl/

Introduction to the “Duke Saga”: https://simplystatistics.org/2012/02/27/the-duke-saga-starter-set/

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Hilary and Roger welcome the new year by discussing Excel (again), why talking to people who generate data matters, meditation and neuroscience, and trust vs. quality in data analysis.

Show notes:

Python in Excel: https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10549005-python-as-an-excel-scripting-language

Talk to the people who made the data: https://twitter.com/leigh_tami18/status/943952107236884480

Rules for Rulers: https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs

Dictator's Handbook: https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Politics-ebook/dp/B005GPSLHI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515726993&sr=8-1&keywords=dictator%27s+handbook

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An end-of-year episode chock full of topics! Roger and Hilary discuss using Excel, detecting serial killers, counting hurricane-related deaths, and whether it's possible to evaluate a data analysis without knowing who the author is. 

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Show notes:

The serial killer detector: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/27/the-serial-killer-detector

Puerto Rico death toll: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/08/us/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-death-toll.html

Machine learning is alchemy? https://twitter.com/haldaume3/status/938478425777377280

Tyler Schnoebelen on GANS https://twitter.com/tschnoebelen/status/939128421719961600

Excel follow up: https://www.wsj.com/articles/finance-pros-say-youll-have-to-pry-excel-out-of-their-cold-dead-hands-1512060948

LHC on Linear Digressions: http://lineardigressions.com/episodes/2016/2/23/hunting-for-the-higgs

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