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Taylor Swift and Markov Chains | Stats + Stories Episode 390


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Taylor Swift is an entertainment juggernaut. She's become one of the best-selling musical artists of all time, with her Eras tour grossing more than $2 billion. During that tour, Swift surprised her audience each night with costume changes to mark different eras of her career. Now, a couple of researchers have figured out how to predict what costumes Swift would wear, when, and if these outfit colors were related to the sentiment of songs being performed. Predicting the colors of Swift's Eras tour is the focus of this episode of Stats and Stories with guests Marina Ferrari de Aquino Klemm and Charlotte M. Jones-Todd.
Marina Ferrari de Aquino Klemm is an associate curator at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. She can be found listening to Taylor Swift while she's on marine expeditions throughout the South Pacific, cataloging museum specimens, or analyzing all sorts of biodiversity data.
Charlotte Jones-Todd taught as a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She spends her time teaching statistics and coding, fixing bugs, pandering to her pets, and baking bread.
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