A Long Way Till AGI
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today is Maciej Świechowski. Maciej is affiliated with QED Software and QED Games. He has...
Brain Inspired AI
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the show, we are joined by Lin Zhao and Lu Zhang. Lin is a Senior Research Scientist at Uni...
Computable AGI
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today's show, we are joined by Michael Timothy Bennett, a Ph.D. student at the Australian Nationa...
AGI Can Be Safe
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Koen Holtman, an independent AI researcher focusing on AI safety. Koen is the Found...
AI Fails on Theory of Mind Tasks
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An assistant professor of Psychology at Harvard University, Tomer Ullman, joins us. Tomer discussed ...
AI for Mathematics Education
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The application of LLMs cuts across various industries. Today, we are joined by Steven Van Vaerenber...
Evaluating Jokes with LLMs
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fabricio Goes, a Lecturer in Creative Computing at the University of Leicester, joins us today. Fabr...
Why Machines Will Never Rule the World
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Barry Smith and Jobst Landgrebe, authors of the book "Why Machines will never Rule the World," join ...
A Psychopathological Approach to Safety in AGI
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While the possibilities with AGI emergence seem great, it also calls for safety concerns. On the sho...
The NLP Community Metasurvey
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Michael, a postdoc at the Center for Data Science, New York University, joins us today. Julia...
Skeptical Survey Interpretation
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle shares his own perspectives on challenges getting insight from surveys. The discussion ranges ...
The Gallup Poll
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Jones, a Senior Editor at Gallup, joins us today. His conversation with Kyle spanned a range of...
Inclusive Study Group Formation at Scale
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gireeja Ranade, a University of California at Berkeley professor, speaks with us today. She presente...
The PhilPapers Survey
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we are joined by David Bourget. David is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Western Univ...
Non-Response Bias
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's show focused on an essential part of surveys — missing values. This is typically caused by...
Measuring Trust in Robots with Likert Scales
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by two guests today, Mariah, a Ph.D. student in the CORE Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech,...
CAREER Prediction
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered what your next career would be? Today, Keyon Vafa, a computer science Ph.D. student at...
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Noura Insolera, a Research Investigator with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), joins us to ...
Survey Design Working Session
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Gerbic joins Kyle to review some of the surveys Data Skeptic has launch, draft a new survey ab...
Bot Detection and Dyadic Surveys
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The use of social bots to fill out online surveys is becoming prevalent. Today, we speak with Sara B...
Reproducible ESP Testing
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today is Zoltán Kekecs, a Ph.D. holder in Behavioural Science. Zoltán highlights the pro...
A Survey of Data Science Methodologies
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the show, Iñigo Martinez, a Ph.D. student at the University of Navarra shares his survey results...
Opinion Dynamics Models
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the show today, Dino Carpentras, a post-doctoral researcher at the Computational Social Science g...
Casual Affective Triggers
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Crafting survey questions is one thing but getting your audience to fill it is yet another. On the s...
Conversational Surveys
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Traditional surveys have straight-jacket questions to be answered, thus restricting the information ...
Do Results Generalize for Privacy and Security Surveys
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Jenny Tang, a Ph.D. student of societal computing at Carnegie Mellon University discusses her...
4 out of 5 Data Scientists Agree
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode kicks off the new season of the show, Data Skeptic: Surveys. Linhda rejoins the show...
Crowdfunded Board Games
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It may be intuitive to think crowdfunding a project drives its innovation and novelty, but there are...
Russian Election Interference Effectiveness
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There were reports of Russia's interference in the 2016 US elections. In today's episode, Koustuv Sa...
Placement Laundering Fraud
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is an unsung kind of ad fraud brewing in the ad tech space — placement laundering fraud. On ...
Data Clean Rooms
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bosko Milekic, the Co-founder of Optable, a data collaboration platform for the media and advertisin...
Dark Patterns in Site Design
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kerstin Bongard-Blanchy is a Research Associate at the University of Luxembourg. She joins us to dis...
Internet Advertising Bureau Media Lab
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Anthony Katsur, the CEO of IAB Tech Lab. Anthony discusses standards within the ad ...
Your Mouse Reveals Your Gender and Age
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When we navigate a webpage, it is fairly easy for our mouse movement to be tracked and collected. To...
Measuring Web Search Behavior
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the show, Aleksandra Urman and Mykola Makhortykh join us to discuss their work on the comparative...
StrategyQA and Big Bench
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Did Aristotle Use a Laptop? That's a question from the StrategyQA benchmark which highlights the s...
Ad Blockers Effect on News Consumption
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While at first glance, the use of ad blockers drops the revenue of news publishers, this may not be ...
Your Consent is Worth 75 Euros a Year
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
People who do not want their data tracked and shared online can pay a token for a cookie paywall. Bu...
Automated Email Generation for Targeted Attacks
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The advancement of generative language models has been a force for good, but also for evil. On the s...
Tribal Marketing
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Gloor, a Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, takes us on a new w...
Nano-targetted Facebook Ads
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Debiasing GPT-3 Job Ads
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We hear about the impeccable achievements of GPT-3 models, but such large generative models come wit...
ML Ops in Production
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Moses Guttman from Clear ML joins us to share insights about how organizations leveraging machine le...
Ad Network Tomography
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Data sharing in the ad tech space has largely been a black box system. While it is obvious the data ...
First Party Tracking Cookies
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When you accept cookies on a website, you cannot tell whether the cookies are used for tracking your...
The Harms of Targeted Weight Loss Ads
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Liza Gak, a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, joins us to discuss her research on harmful weight loss ad...
Podcast Advertising
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Growing your podcast to the point of monetization is not a walk in the park. Today, Rob Walch, the V...
Fairness in e-Commerce Search
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When we search for products in e-commerce stores, we do not care what goes on under the hood to gene...
Fraudulent Amazon Reviewers
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chances are that you have bought a product online majorly because of the reviews you saw. Unfortunat...
Ad Targeting in Amazon Smart Speakers
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While we give attention to textual data on the web, many do not know the unique power of echo intera...
Adwords with Unknown Budgets
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rajan Udwani, an Assistant Professor at the University of California Berkeley joins us to discuss hi...
ML Ops Best Practices
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we are joined by Piotr Niedźwiedź, Founder and CEO of Neptune.ai. Piotr discusses common ML...
Affiliate Marketing Rabbithole
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Affiliate marketing creates an opportunity for marketers to gain a commission by promoting a product...
Monetization of Youtube Conspiracy Theorists
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cameron Ballard joins us today to discuss his work around YouTube conspiracy theories. He revealed i...
User Perceptions of Problematic Ads
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Zeng joins us to discuss his study around understanding bad ads and efforts that can be taken t...
Political Digital Advertising Analysis
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NaLette Brodnax, a political scientist and an Assistant Professor in the McCourt School of Public Po...
Fraud Detection in Crowdfunding Campaigns
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial Intelligence and Auction Design
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Privacy Preference Signals
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered what goes on under the hood when you accept a website's cookies? Today, Maxim...
Neural Architecture Search for CTR Prediction
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ravi Krishna joins us today to talk about his recent work on a differentiable NAS framework for ads ...
Algorithmic PPC Management
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Effectively managing a large budget of pay per click advertising demands software solutions. When sp...
Data Skeptic: Ad Tech
18 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Increasingly, people get most if not all of the information they consume online. Alongside the web s...
The Reliability of Mobile Phone Data
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our mobile phones generate an incredible amount of data inbound and outbound. In today's episode, Ni...
Haywire Algorithms
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic changed how we lived. And this had a ripple effect on the performance of machine learni...
School Reopening Analysis
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Carly Lupton-Smith joins us today to speak about her research which investigated the consistency bet...
Modern Data Stacks
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we are joined by Alexander Thor, a Product Manager at Vizlib, makers of Astrato. Astrato is a...
Emoji as a Predictor
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emojis are arguably one of the most effective ways to express emotions when texting. In today's epis...
Polarizing Trends in the Gig Economy
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the show today, Fabian Braesemann, a research fellow at the University of Oxford, joins us to dis...
Remote Learning in Applied Engineering
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the show today, we interview Mouhamed Abdulla, a professor of Electrical Engineering at Sheridan ...
Remote Productivity
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is difficult to estimate the effect on remote working across the board. Darja Šmite, who speaks ...
Does Remote Learning Work?
01 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We explore this complex question in two interviews today. First, Kasey Wagoner describes 3 approac...
Covid-19 Impact on Bicycle Usage
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with Abdullah Kurkcu, a Lead Traffic Modeler. Abdullah joins us to discuss...
Learning Digital Fabrication Remotely
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we are joined by Jennifer Jacobs and Nadya Peek, who discuss their experience in teaching rem...
Remote Software Development
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we are joined by Denae Ford, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and an Affiliate Assis...
Quantum K-Means
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we interview Jonas Landman, a Postdoc candidate at the University of Edinburg. Jona...
K-Means in Practice
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
K-means is widely used in real-life business problems. In this episode, Mujtaba Anwer, a researcher ...
Fair Hierarchical Clustering
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Building a fair machine learning model has become a critical consideration in today's world. In this...
Matrix Factorization For k-Means
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many people know K-means clustering as a powerful clustering technique but not all listeners will be...
Breathing K-Means
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with Bernd Fritzke, a proficient financial expert and a Data Science resea...
Power K-Means
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Jason, an Assistant Professor of Statistical Science at Duke University talks ab...
Explainable K-Means
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kyle interviews Lucas Murtinho about the paper "Shallow decision treees for explain...
Customer Clustering
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered how you can use clustering to extract meaningful insight from a time-series s...
k-means Image Segmentation
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Linh Da joins us to explore how image segmentation can be done using k-means clustering. Image seg...
Tracking Elephant Clusters
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Gregory Glatzer explained his machine learning project that involved the predict...
k-means clustering
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our new season, Data Skeptic: k-means clustering. Each week will feature an interview o...
Snowflake Essentials
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Bell, Snowflake Data Superhero, and SnowPro, joins us today to talk about his book "Snowflake ...
Explainable Climate Science
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Zack Labe, a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Colorado State University, joins us today to discuss his wo...
Energy Forecasting Pipelines
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Erin Boyle, the Head of Data Science at Myst AI, joins us today to talk about her work with Myst AI,...
Matrix Profiles in Stumpy
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Law, Principle Data Scientist, R&D at a Fortune 500 Company, comes on to talk about his creatio...
The Great Australian Prediction Project
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Data scientists and psychics have at least one major thing in common. Both professions attempt to pr...
Water Demand Forecasting
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Georgia Papacharalampous, Researcher at the National Technical University of Athens, joins us today ...
Open Telemetry
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Watson, Principal Software Engineer at Splunk, joins us today to talk about Splunk and OpenTele...
Fashion Predictions
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yusan Lin, a Research Scientist at Visa Research, comes on today to talk about her work "Predicting ...
Time Series Mini Episodes
25 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Time series topics on Data Skeptic predate our current season. This holiday special collects three...
Forecasting Motor Vehicle Collision
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Darren Shannon, a Lecturer in Quantitative Finance in the Department of Accounting and Finance, ...
Deep Learning for Road Traffic Forecasting
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Manibardo, PhD Student at the University of the Basque Country in Spain, comes on today to shar...
Bike Share Demand Forecasting
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daniele Gammelli, PhD Student in Machine Learning at Technical University of Denmark and visiting Ph...
Forecasting in Supply Chain
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mahdi Abolghasemi, Lecturer at Monash University, joins us today to talk about his work "Demand fore...
Black Friday
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The retail holiday "black Friday" occurs the day after Thanksgiving in the United States. It's dubbe...
Aligning Time Series on Incomparable Spaces
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Terenin, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, joins us today to talk...