DataBytes: Your weekly podcast on all things data science.

Episode 9: Lessons Learned from Making a Fitbit Data Visualization Shiny App

Dynamic data visualization widgets can be pretty cool, but it takes more than just statistical chops to build an online visualization app that supports input data from users. In this episode, we describe the journey that Susan took to build a visualization app for Fitbit data. The app can be found at http://fitbitvizwiz.ddns.net.

Episode 8: The French Revolution and the Challenge of Reproducibility

What can machine learning tell us about the French Revolution? This episode describes a brief history lesson of the digital humanities. Then, why do we constantly hear about the word "reproducibility" in the context of data science and scientific research in general? We'll explore what this means and why it seems to keep happening.

Episode 7: The Virtual Maestro and the Most Influential Movie

Have you ever wanted to try your hand at conducting an orchestra? Now you can, with Google's Semi-Conductor online app. We'll talk about how this browser-based app analyzes your body positions in real time to translate your actions into Mozart music. We also talk about a way to use network analysis to determine the most influential movie ever made to date. Be sure to tune in to find out which movie takes the prize.

Episode 6: Probability Games and Amazon's Own Self-Driving Car

What are the odds that a toss of a 10-sided die, followed by a toss of a 20-sided die, and then a toss of a 30-sided die land in increasing order? If you know the answer within a few seconds, you might have an edge in Borel, a game that is all about probability. We'll also talk about DeepRacer, Amazon's soon-to-come programmable self-driving car.

Episode 5: The Do's and Don'ts of Data Visualization

Data visualization is an integral pre-cursor to data analysis, providing a way to visually inspect the data for surprising trends and uncover potential errors in variable coding. In this episode, we cover some guiding principles of data visualization. Our blog post contains links to examples.

Episode 4: Meet the Co-hosts (Part 2)

This week, we learn about Jessi Cisewski-Kehe's background to find out how she went from a Math major to an actuarial analyst, then to grad school in statistics, followed by a three-year visiting assistant professor position at Carnegie Mellon where she got into Astrostatistics, and finally to her current position as an assistant professor at Yale.

Episode 3: Meet the Co-hosts (Part 1)

This week, we learn about Susan Wang's background to find out how she went from an Applied Math major to actuarial consulting, then to a weather derivatives start-up firm, then to grad school in statistics, finally landing at Yale as a lecturer.

Episode 2: Biometric Technology at Airports, Google Smart Replies, Bestselling Books

In this episode, we discuss biometric technology used at airports, Google Smart Replies (and letting AI compose our emails/texts for us), and an analysis of New York Times Bestsellers list data.
 
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Episode 1: Thanksgiving, College Football, International Prize in Statistics

The first episode of the DataBytes Podcast where we discuss popular topics related to data, statistics, data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence. In this episode, we discuss Thanksgiving food, the College Football Playoff selection, and the winner of the International Prize in Statistics.