Not So Standard Deviations

190 - Indefinite Leave

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

190 - Indefinite Leave   After a very brief summary of the changing data science landscape, Hilary and Roger do not actually end the podcast but disc...

189 - LLMs and Data Science

05 Aug 2024

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Hilary and Roger discuss Hilary's Use R! keynote presentation, LLMs and R, and whether R (or any programming language) has a future. Also, a brief pre...

188 - Everyday Statistics Terms

24 Jun 2024

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Hilary and Roger talk about the commonplace usage of statistics terminology, Apple's recent AI announcements, and Microsoft's Recall feature.   Show ...

187 - Building Robot Hilary

11 Jun 2024

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Hilary and Roger discuss limitations of AI image generation and the possibility of replacing both podcast hosts with robots.   Show Notes: Support us...

186 - Humanoid Robots

09 May 2024

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Hilary and Roger discuss the latest AI news, open source Llama, and the prospect of humanoid robots.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger Peng H...

185 - Consultation Lessons Learned

26 Feb 2024

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Roger and Hilary talk about a consulting engagement gone wrong and whether there have been any good consulting engagements.   Show Notes: Support us ...

184 - Unknown Unknowns

16 Feb 2024

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Hilary and Roger talk about whether it might be better if ChatGPT didn't give you what you wanted.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger Peng Hil...

183 - What's an Informative Tool?

31 Jan 2024

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Hilary and Roger discuss what makes a data analytic tool informative for a given problem and Hilary, predictably, gets furious.   Show Notes Support ...

182 - The Best CEOs Not Named Hilary

10 Jan 2024

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Hilary and Roger ring in the new year with some discussion of AI and data science, Roger's upcoming spring semester data science course, and some pred...

181 - Welcome to the Parkerverse

15 Nov 2023

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Hilary and Roger discuss Hilary's new ChatGPT consulting business and tease the future of data analysis with AI.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon ...

180 - Lessons from T2

04 Oct 2023

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Hilary and Roger discuss how to improve ChatGPT interactions and important lessons learned from Terminator 2.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Rog...

179 - AI Grand Strategy

06 Sep 2023

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Hilary and Roger are discussing Python in Excel, speed cubing data, and a grand strategy for AI weapons.   Show Notes: Python in Excel World Cube As...

178 - Hilary is Cranky About Everything

22 Aug 2023

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Hilary and Roger discuss data vs. oil, large language models, automated vehicles, and Hilary contributes to Roger's research.    Show Notes: Support...

177 - We're Back!

12 Aug 2023

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Hilary and Roger return to see if anything has changed in the world since they took their break. Topics include the changing world of social media and...

176 - Is R the Worst?

03 May 2023

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Hilary and Roger make a special announcement and discuss large language models, prompt engineering, and the frustration of teaching R these days.   S...

175 - Apocalypse Later

17 Apr 2023

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Hilary and Roger discuss Posit ads and continue the discussion of ChatGPT and AI (including AI movies!)   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on ...

174 - The Future Was Here

04 Apr 2023

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Hilary and Roger debate the impacts and time horizon of ChatGPT and its competitors.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on T...

173 - Narrative Diagrams

14 Mar 2023

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Hilary and Roger reflect on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, discuss what the goal of data version control is, and critique Roger's idea for a way...

172 - Efficient Counterfactuals

17 Feb 2023

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Hilary and Roger winge about Twitter, correct the record about dbt, and consider more counterfactuals.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on T...

171 - Orchestrating the Reverse ETL

03 Feb 2023

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Hilary recovers from COVID while Roger throws various difficult discussion topics at her. They talk about Charlie Javice, Data Day Texas, Posit / Pala...

170 - An Abbreviated Episode

13 Jan 2023

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Hilary spills a smoothie and coffee and Roger starts teaching again.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter List of N...

169 - Farewell 2022

16 Dec 2022

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Hilary and Roger close out the year discussing brain biomarkers, ChatGPT and AI art, and Roger's failed experiment with a rocket company.   Show Note...

168 - Mugs for Data Science

03 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger design a coffee experiment, sell some mugs, and discuss Roger's college transcript.   Show Notes: Not So Standard Mugs Support us on...

167 - Twilight of the Bird

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger follow up on DALL-E and discuss the main topic of the day – Twitter and whether there are any viable alternatives. Show Notes: Rog...

166 - Podcast in the Style of Data

07 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss Roger's latest coffee conundrum, remaking the 2007 Apple store, and using DALL-E for ad campaigns. And Roger is hiring a post...

165 - QR No-Code

22 Sep 2022

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Hilary and Roger celebrate their podcast-iversary by discussing The Dropout, Hilary's startup experience, and developing a totally straightforward sys...

164 - What is Data Science?

10 Sep 2022

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Hilary and Roger are back after a short break to discuss Roger's new job, the meaning of data science, and limited liability algorithms.   Show Notes...

163 - Life Extension Juice

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger reflect on rstudio::conf(2022) and follow up on assumptions vs. constraints for statistical methods.   Show Notes: Introduction to M...

162 - Conference Planning

29 Jul 2022

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Hilary and Roger discuss the upcoming RStudio Conference and figure out what talks Roger should go to.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on T...

161 - CoPodcasting

15 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger follow up on TikTok, Twitter, and then discuss why statisticians are so bad at training people in data analysis.   Show Notes: Suppo...

160 - Sentient Podcast

05 Jul 2022

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Hilary is fresh from raising capital and Roger thinks they should start a TikTok account.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary...

159 - Ecosystems vs. Platforms

15 Jun 2022

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Hilary and Roger discuss deprecated packages, the tidyverse ecosystem, the end of fashion, creators and platforms, and whether certain people understa...

158 - Getting the Email

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss testing apps on iPods, updating R packages and getting the "email" from CRAN, and going back to conferences.   Show Notes: S...

157 - Early Morning Vibe

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss Docker for analytic pipelines, deep learning, the right/wrong way to get feedback, and the future of Twitter.   Show Notes: ...

156 - Hilary's New Job

20 Apr 2022

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Hilary and Roger talk about Hilary's new job as Chief Technology Officer of Indyx.    Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on T...

155 - I Just Wanna ML

12 Apr 2022

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Hilary is back from special assignment in the Yukon. She and Roger talk about prediction modeling (and how Hilary hates it), self-driving cars, and ch...

154 - Just Tweak Some Parameters

04 Apr 2022

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Roger welcomes back Lucy D'Agostino McGowan to the show to discuss building prediction models and how they may or may not relate to causal inference. ...

153 - Bee to Bee to Cee

07 Mar 2022

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Hilary and Roger discuss whether they understand their models, changing programming languages, using RStudio for everything, and deep learning.   Sho...

152 - Totally Normal

21 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger continue to track Roger's deep learning journey.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter List of NSSD...

151 - How Deep Is The Learning?

07 Feb 2022

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Hilary and Roger discuss Twitter Spaces, career advice, and deep learning.   Show Notes: Deep Learning Book Robert Nowak's IMS Medallion Lecture Supp...

150 - Microdosing Data Science

24 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss Sir David Cox, esport competitions, and hand out more bad career advice.   Show Notes: Sir David Cox The Cox Model Support...

149 - Data Analyst End Game

07 Jan 2022

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Hilary and Roger discuss Theranos (for the last time??), Excel as e-sport, and Hilary gives some more bad career advice.   Show Notes: Financial Mode...

148 - Not The Holiday Episode You Were Hoping For

28 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Roger and Hilary discuss the meaning of the Christmas spirit. Show Notes: Support us on Patreon   Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter List of NSSD Fel...

147 - Data Science TPS Reports

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger have a winding discussion about rubrics and check lists. And Hilary observed a functional data science team in the wild.   Show Note...

146 - Riding the Data Scientist Title

01 Dec 2021

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Hilary and Roger follow up on Zillow, talk about negotiation in data science, and discuss the title of data scientist.   Show Notes: WSJ Article on ...

145 - Get Used to Being Unhappy

12 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss data analysis and communication, analysis correctness, Zillow Offers, and another installment of Hilary's Bad Career Advice. ...

144 - Taxonomy of Misery

29 Oct 2021

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Hilary and Roger inaugurate a new segment: Hilary's Bad Advice. Also they discuss spacecraft trajectories calculated with Excel, Theranos, filesystems...

143 - Analytic Discovery Process

18 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss scientific discovery vs. building and designing analyses, Hilary giving bad advice, and Hilary's new career!   Show Notes: A...

142 - Truth or Useful

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger keep track of the Elizabeth Holmes trial, follow up on useful models and formal analysis, and discuss data analysis requirements and...

141 - Useful Models

20 Sep 2021

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Hilary and Roger discuss whether models should be correct or useful.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter Get the N...

140 - Booboo Detection

07 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss the upcoming Elizabeth Holmes trial, hot tea, distraction free computing, and designing a study for detecting data booboos. A...

139 - Eliciting Chocolate

20 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss Internet woes, mugs, data editors, and user testing chocolate.   Show Notes: Cacao ceremony Esalen The Good Chocolate Cert...

138 - Big Brothering It

06 Aug 2021

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Hilary and Roger compare mugs and then follow up on how to incentivize data quality assurance.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon page Roger on Twit...

137 - Getting to Right

23 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger follow up on GitHub Copilot, discuss SAS (briefly!), and talk about ways in which people determine that data are "right".   Show Not...

136 - Dream Solution

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger talk about tidymodels one more time with listener feedback, discuss the central question of data science, alternate ways to character...

135 - Moderate Confidence

24 Jun 2021

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Hilary and Roger follow up on the discussion about tidymodels and machine learning, and discuss the way evidence is interpreted in the intelligence co...

134 - Special Guest Julia Silge

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger welcome Julia Silge to the show to talk about tidymodels, modeling, and other important topics.   Show Notes: Julia Silge You Look ...

133 - Cicada Special

28 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger are back with things to talk about, including some follow up on design thinking, how Family Feud is related to data analysis, and the...

132 - Languishing

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss some NSSD-centric but ancillary topics for this episode.  Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter Get the Not So Stan...

131 - Email Grab Bag

30 Apr 2021

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Hilary and Roger go through the mail bag and answer some listener questions about tidymodels, advice for beginners, and negative and positive controls...

130 - Four Sigma Club

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss whether Hilary is becoming the thing she criticizes and how large p-values should really be.   Show Notes: Hilary Asks The ...

129 - Monetizing False Positives

02 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger talk about the boat, coffee status, and the purpose of prediction modeling frameworks.   Show Notes: Tidymodels.org James Hoffman Ul...

128 - APIs Have Changed

20 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger have important pony follow up. They also discuss satellite data, blowing your API quota, and building R packages for data analysis. S...

127 - A Bottle Episode

05 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary travels back home to take care of some old business. And Roger laughs at her but doesn't criticize her. Show Notes: Support us through our Patr...

126 - Data Gunslingers

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss using APIs in R, doing short-term contract data/software work, validating paranoia, and lessons learned from data analysis. S...

125 - Inaugural NSSD Fellows

05 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger put the nail in the coffin on cars and acceleration, consider possible NSSD Fellow nominations, discuss teaching data analysis, and o...

124 - Analysis Without Data

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss what happened just after Episode 123, follow up on cars and autopilot, and talk about teaching data analysis without data. Sh...

123 - Going On Autopilot

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger welcome the new year and discuss one hot encoding, autopilot as artificial intelligence, and how a car gas pedal works. Show Notes: S...

122 - One Hot 2020

29 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger close out 2020 with a discussion of AI products, the difference between AI and machine learning, reflections on 2020, and milk frothi...

121 - Global Statistical Event

11 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss the latest COVID gripes, the possibility of a global statistical event, which NSSD episode was their favorite, and whether hu...

120 - Debugging Data Analysis

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss a systematic framework for debugging. Show Notes: Support us through our Patreon page Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/r...

119 - Election Night Data Science

13 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss Hilary's election night experience working as a data science project manager on the Biden campaign. Also, Cats follow up. Sho...

118 - Special Guest Lucy D'Agostino McGowan

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Roger welcomes Lucy D'Agostino McGowan to the podcast to discuss the challenges of scientific communication, what computer to get, and the next big th...

117 - Failing in Statistics

16 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger dig into the mail bag, then discuss how Excel is always causing problems and the concept of failure modes in data analysis. Show Note...

116 - Coffee Data Science Mashup

03 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger weave a coffee thread through their discussion of .Rprofile files, Roger's reproducibility woes, and Palantir. Show Notes: The 9baris...

115 - Five Year Anniversary

22 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger celebrate the five year anniversary of the podcast and discuss pandemic work, the changing podcast landscape, Palantir followup, TikT...

114 - We Need TikTok Help

06 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss TikTok, even though they've never used it, and Palantir, even though they've never used it. Show Notes: China bans AI export...

113 - Data Science Tweener

22 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss The Last Dance, the future of the data science industry, and living in an era of constant crisis. Oh, and Hilary has a new jo...

112 - Data Analytic Pitfalls

07 Aug 2020

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Hilary and Roger discuss Roger's freshly-delivered talk for the Joint Statistical Meetings, social media and how ideas from intelligence analysis appl...

111 - Data Science On the Go

17 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss working from home (mobile edition), correlation vs. causation, Roger's coffee woes, and data analytic "style". Show notes: 9b...

110 - Who Needs Data?

03 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss using data to prove someone wrong and then embark on another book club discussing Scott Berkun's How Design Makes the World. ...

109 - Still Working From Home

20 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss "microservices", importing the tidyverse into a package, business acronyms, math as a sketching tool, and renaming the Fisher...

108 - It Depends

25 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss such non-pandemic topics as: the stunning conclusion to the Moka Pot Saga, Hilary's new book she's reading on design thinking...

107 - Still Not a Data Scientist

08 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger revisit COBOL, discuss the tradeoff of stability vs. flexibility, complain about discussing statistics over email, tech addiction, an...

106 - Podcasts are a Process

27 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger give an update on the home coffee situation and discuss COBOL programming as a metaphor for reproducible research. Show notes: Iron ...

105 - Peeking at the Data

10 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss Andrew Cuomo's appreciation of statisticians, whether to look or not look at COVID19 data, and developing Shiny apps. Show no...

104 - Mossy Walls

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger give some updates on what's going on and how life at home is working out. Show notes: Hilary's pen Hilary's acoustic panels Hilary...

103 - Worst Data Analysts Ever

15 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger provide a respite from recent events by discussing forecasting the U.S. primary elections, Roger's time series analysis course, R pac...

102 - Readable Tech Debt

27 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger follow up on their discussion with JJ Allaire about open source software. They also discuss getting a PhD, ad hoc data analysis with ...

101 - Special Guest JJ Allaire

18 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger welcome JJ Allaire, CEO and founder of RStudio, PBC, to the podcast and have a wide-ranging discussion about developing open source s...

100 - Live from RStudio Conf 2020

04 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 100 was recorded in front of a live audience at RStudio::conf 2020. In this episode Hilary and Roger discuss how ideas evolve over time and us...

99 - HSP Guide to SF

27 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger follow up on their discussion of open source software. They also discuss writing functions for data analysis, learning a second progr...

98 - Moka Pot Giveaway

23 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss recent results of Moka pot coffee. Show notes: Support us through our Patreon page Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpe...

97 - Don't Do What You Like

13 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger follow up on the future of R, then talk about reproducibility versus systems, the proliferation of text-based formats and implication...

96 - R in 10 Years

02 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Where will R be in 10 years and what might replace it? Show notes: Support us through our Patreon page Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng Hi...

95 - Summarisze

26 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Summarize or summarise? Show notes: Support us through our Patreon page Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng Hilary on Twitter: https://twitte...

94 - Delectoble

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger ask, why doesn't Hilary just get an espresso machine? Show notes: Support us through our Patreon page Roger on Twitter: https://twitt...

93 - df and dat

13 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss Moka pots, follow up on the creative curve, name their data frames, discuss prediction vs. forecasting, and data science in m...

92 - Hilary Comes to Town

27 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger record in person for the third time ever to discuss the changing nature of data science and its role in various industries, the use o...

91 - The Creative Curve

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary and Roger discuss the book The Creative Curve by Allen Gannett and how the ideas relate to data science and data analysis. Show notes: The Cre...