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Data Skeptic
The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and the like, all from the perspective of applying critical thinking and the scientific method to evaluate the veracity of claims and efficacy of approaches.
Episodes
Data SkepticNeural Architecture Search for CTR Prediction
Ravi Krishna joins us today to talk about his recent work on a differentiable NAS framework for ads CTR prediction. He discussed what CTR prediction is about…
Data SkepticAlgorithmic PPC Management
Effectively managing a large budget of pay per click advertising demands software solutions. When spending multi-million dollar budgets on hundreds of…
Data SkepticData Skeptic: Ad Tech
Increasingly, people get most if not all of the information they consume online. Alongside the web sites, videos, apps, and other destinations, we're…
Data SkepticThe Reliability of Mobile Phone Data
Our mobile phones generate an incredible amount of data inbound and outbound. In today's episode, Nishant Kishore, a PhD graduate of Harvard University in…
Data SkepticHaywire Algorithms
The pandemic changed how we lived. And this had a ripple effect on the performance of machine learning models. Ravi Parikh joins us today to discuss how the…
Data SkepticSchool Reopening Analysis
Carly Lupton-Smith joins us today to speak about her research which investigated the consistency between household and county measures of school reopening…
Data SkepticModern Data Stacks
Today, we are joined by Alexander Thor, a Product Manager at Vizlib, makers of Astrato. Astrato is a data analytics and business intelligence tool built on the…
Data SkepticEmoji as a Predictor
Emojis are arguably one of the most effective ways to express emotions when texting. In today's episode, Xuan Lu shares her research on the use of emojis by…
Data SkepticPolarizing Trends in the Gig Economy
On the show today, Fabian Braesemann, a research fellow at the University of Oxford, joins us to discuss his study analyzing the gig economy. He revealed the…
Data SkepticRemote Learning in Applied Engineering
On the show today, we interview Mouhamed Abdulla, a professor of Electrical Engineering at Sheridan Institute of Technology. Mouhamed joins us to discuss his…
Data SkepticRemote Productivity
It is difficult to estimate the effect on remote working across the board. Darja Šmite, who speaks with us today, is a professor of Software Engineering at the…
Data SkepticDoes Remote Learning Work?
We explore this complex question in two interviews today. First, Kasey Wagoner describes 3 approaches to remote lab sessions and an analysis of which was the…
Data SkepticCovid-19 Impact on Bicycle Usage
In this episode, we speak with Abdullah Kurkcu, a Lead Traffic Modeler. Abdullah joins us to discuss his recent study on the effect of COVID-19 on bicycle…
Data SkepticLearning Digital Fabrication Remotely
Today, we are joined by Jennifer Jacobs and Nadya Peek, who discuss their experience in teaching remote classes for a course that is largely hands-on. The…
Data SkepticRemote Software Development
Today, we are joined by Denae Ford, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. Denae…
Data SkepticQuantum K-Means
In this episode, we interview Jonas Landman, a Postdoc candidate at the University of Edinburg. Jonas discusses his study around quantum learning where he…
Data SkepticK-Means in Practice
K-means is widely used in real-life business problems. In this episode, Mujtaba Anwer, a researcher and Data Scientist walks us through some use cases of…
Data SkepticFair Hierarchical Clustering
Building a fair machine learning model has become a critical consideration in today's world. In this episode, we speak with Anshuman Chabra, a Ph.D. candidate…
Data SkepticMatrix Factorization For k-Means
Many people know K-means clustering as a powerful clustering technique but not all listeners will be as familiar with spectral clustering. In today's episode…
Data SkepticBreathing K-Means
In this episode, we speak with Bernd Fritzke, a proficient financial expert and a Data Science researcher on his recent research - the breathing K-means…
Data SkepticPower K-Means
In today's episode, Jason, an Assistant Professor of Statistical Science at Duke University talks about his research on K power means. K power means is a…
Data SkepticExplainable K-Means
In this episode, Kyle interviews Lucas Murtinho about the paper "Shallow decision treees for explainable k-means clustering" about the use of decision trees to…
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Customer Clustering
Have you ever wondered how you can use clustering to extract meaningful insight from a time-series single-feature data? In today's episode, Ehsan speaks about…
Data Skeptick-means Image Segmentation
Linh Da joins us to explore how image segmentation can be done using k-means clustering. Image segmentation involves dividing an image into a distinct set of…
Data SkepticTracking Elephant Clusters
In today's episode, Gregory Glatzer explained his machine learning project that involved the prediction of elephant movement and settlement, in a bid to limit…
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k-means clustering
Welcome to our new season, Data Skeptic: k-means clustering. Each week will feature an interview or discussion related to this classic algorithm, it's use…
Data SkepticSnowflake Essentials
Frank Bell, Snowflake Data Superhero, and SnowPro, joins us today to talk about his book "Snowflake Essentials: Getting Started with Big Data in the Cloud."…
Data SkepticExplainable Climate Science
Zack Labe, a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Colorado State University, joins us today to discuss his work "Detecting Climate Signals using Explainable AI with…
Data SkepticEnergy Forecasting Pipelines
Erin Boyle, the Head of Data Science at Myst AI, joins us today to talk about her work with Myst AI, a time series forecasting platform and service with the…
Data SkepticMatrix Profiles in Stumpy
Sean Law, Principle Data Scientist, R&D at a Fortune 500 Company, comes on to talk about his creation of the STUMPY Python Library. Sponsored by Hello Fresh…
Data SkepticThe Great Australian Prediction Project
Data scientists and psychics have at least one major thing in common. Both professions attempt to predict the future. In the case of a data scientist, this is…
Data SkepticWater Demand Forecasting
Georgia Papacharalampous, Researcher at the National Technical University of Athens, joins us today to talk about her work "Probabilistic water demand…
Data SkepticOpen Telemetry
John Watson, Principal Software Engineer at Splunk, joins us today to talk about Splunk and OpenTelemetry.
Data SkepticFashion Predictions
Yusan Lin, a Research Scientist at Visa Research, comes on today to talk about her work "Predicting Next-Season Designs on High Fashion Runway."
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Time Series Mini Episodes
Time series topics on Data Skeptic predate our current season. This holiday special collects three popular mini-episodes from the archive that discuss time…
Data SkepticForecasting Motor Vehicle Collision
Dr. Darren Shannon, a Lecturer in Quantitative Finance in the Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Limerick, joins us today to talk about his…
Data SkepticDeep Learning for Road Traffic Forecasting
Eric Manibardo, PhD Student at the University of the Basque Country in Spain, comes on today to share his work, "Deep Learning for Road Traffic Forecasting…
Data SkepticBike Share Demand Forecasting
Daniele Gammelli, PhD Student in Machine Learning at Technical University of Denmark and visiting PhD Student at Stanford University, joins us today to talk…
Data SkepticForecasting in Supply Chain
Mahdi Abolghasemi, Lecturer at Monash University, joins us today to talk about his work "Demand forecasting in supply chain: The impact of demand volatility in…
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Black Friday
The retail holiday "black Friday" occurs the day after Thanksgiving in the United States. It's dubbed this because many retail companies spend the first 10…
Data SkepticAligning Time Series on Incomparable Spaces
Alex Terenin, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, joins us today to talk about his work "Aligning Time Series on Incomparable…
Data SkepticComparing Time Series with HCTSA
Today we are joined again by Ben Fulcher, leader of the Dynamics and Neural Systems Group at the University of Sydney in Australia, to talk about hctsa, a…
Data SkepticChange Point Detection Algorithms
Gerrit van den Burg, Postdoctoral Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, joins us today to discuss his work "An Evaluation of Change Point Detection…
Data SkepticTime Series for Good
Bahman Rostami-Tabar, Senior Lecturer in Management Science at Cardiff University, joins us today to talk about his work "Forecasting and its Beneficiaries."
Data SkepticLong Term Time Series Forecasting
Alex Mallen, Computer Science student at the University of Washington, and Henning Lange, a Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied Math at the University of…
Data SkepticFast and Frugal Time Series Forecasting
Fotios Petropoulos, Professor of Management Science at the University of Bath in The U.K., joins us today to talk about his work "Fast and Frugal Time Series…
Data SkepticCausal Inference in Educational Systems
Manie Tadayon, a PhD graduate from the ECE department at University of California, Los Angeles, joins us today to talk about his work "Comparative Analysis of…
Data SkepticBoosted Embeddings for Time Series
Sankeerth Rao Karingula, ML Researcher at Palo Alto Networks, joins us today to talk about his work "Boosted Embeddings for Time Series Forecasting." Works…
Data SkepticChange Point Detection in Continuous Integration Systems
David Daly, Performance Engineer at MongoDB, joins us today to discuss "The Use of Change Point Detection to Identify Software Performance Regressions in a…
Data SkepticApplying k-Nearest Neighbors to Time Series
Samya Tajmouati, a PhD student in Data Science at the University of Science of Kenitra, Morocco, joins us today to discuss her work Applying K-Nearest…
Data SkepticUltra Long Time Series
Dr. Feng Li, (@f3ngli) is an Associate Professor of Statistics in the School of Statistics and Mathematics at Central University of Finance and Economics in…
Data SkepticMiniRocket
Angus Dempster, PhD Student at Monash University in Australia, comes on today to talk about MINIROCKET: A Very Fast (Almost) Deterministic Transform for Time…
Data SkepticARiMA is not Sufficient
Chongshou Li, Associate Professor at Southwest Jiaotong University in China, joins us today to talk about his work Why are the ARIMA and SARIMA not Sufficient.
Data SkepticComp Engine
Ben Fulcher, Senior Lecturer at the School of Physics at the University of Sydney in Australia, comes on today to talk about his project Comp Engine. Follow…
Data SkepticDetecting Ransomware
Nitin Pundir, PhD candidate at University Florida and works at the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research, comes on today to talk about his work…
Data SkepticGANs in Finance
Florian Eckerli, a recent graduate of Zurich University of Applied Sciences, comes on the show today to discuss his work Generative Adversarial Networks in…
Data SkepticPredicting Urban Land Use
Today on the show we have Daniel Omeiza, a doctoral student in the computer science department of the University of Oxford, who joins us to talk about his work…
Data SkepticOpportunities for Skillful Weather Prediction
Today on the show we have Elizabeth Barnes, Associate Professor in the department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University, who joins us to talk…
Data SkepticPredicting Stock Prices
Today on the show we have Andrea Fronzetti Colladon (@iandreafc), currently working at the University of Perugia and inventor of the Semantic Brand Score…
Data SkepticN-Beats
Today on the show we have Boris Oreshkin @boreshkin, a Senior Research Scientist at Unity Technologies, who joins us today to talk about his work N-BEATS…