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190 - Indefinite Leave

2025/05/19

190 - Indefinite Leave After a very brief summary of the changing data science landscape, Hilary and Roger do not actually end the podcast but discuss taking an indefinite leave, leaving the door slightly ajar for future opportunities. Show notes: Roger Peng Hilary Parker List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

189 - LLMs and Data Science

2024/08/05

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 preview of Roger's JSM 2024 talk. Show notes: Support us on Patreon Roger Peng Hilary Parker List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

188 - Everyday Statistics Terms

2024/06/24

Hilary and Roger talk about the commonplace usage of statistics terminology, Apple's recent AI announcements, and Microsoft's Recall feature. Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger Peng Hilary Parker List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

187 - Building Robot Hilary

2024/06/11

Hilary and Roger discuss limitations of AI image generation and the possibility of replacing both podcast hosts with robots. Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger Peng Hilary Parker List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

186 - Humanoid Robots

2024/05/09

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 Hilary Parker List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

185 - Consultation Lessons Learned

2024/02/26

Roger and Hilary talk about a consulting engagement gone wrong and whether there have been any good consulting engagements. Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger Peng Hilary Parker List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

184 - Unknown Unknowns

2024/02/16

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 Hilary Parker List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

183 - What's an Informative Tool?

2024/01/31

Hilary and Roger discuss what makes a data analytic tool informative for a given problem and Hilary, predictably, gets furious. Show Notes Support us on Patreon Roger Peng Hilary Parker List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

182 - The Best CEOs Not Named Hilary

2024/01/10

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 predictions for 2024. Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter/X Roger on BlueSky Hilary on Twitter/X Hilary on BlueSky List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

181 - Welcome to the Parkerverse

2023/11/15

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 Roger on Twitter/X Roger on BlueSky Hilary on Twitter/X Hilary on BlueSky List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

180 - Lessons from T2

2023/10/04

Hilary and Roger discuss how to improve ChatGPT interactions and important lessons learned from Terminator 2. Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

179 - AI Grand Strategy

2023/09/06

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 Association Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

178 - Hilary is Cranky About Everything

2023/08/22

Hilary and Roger discuss data vs. oil, large language models, automated vehicles, and Hilary contributes to Roger's research. Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

177 - We're Back!

2023/08/12

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 the "data as oil" metaphor. Show Notes: Catching up with the weird world of LLMs Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

176 - Is R the Worst?

2023/05/03

Hilary and Roger make a special announcement and discuss large language models, prompt engineering, and the frustration of teaching R these days. Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

Read Not So Standard Deviations podcast reviews

4.2 out of 5

197 reviews

obacker19 2022/05/17

Entertaining, insightful and actionable! 🔥

Whether you’re well established as an innovator in the data science community, or just getting started carving out your niche - this is a must-listen ...

Perisaccadic 2023/12/04

Hilary, for the sake of your mental health, get off Twitter bc

After being mutuals for years I unfortunately had to unfollow @hspter due to a tweet in which they said of someone else, “ ‘Lost her humanity’ is far...

ahall4488 2023/11/27

Conspiracist Hillary

Used to enjoy but hard to listen to now that Hilary has gone full conspiracy theorist online. She has been posting the most outlandish things on Twitt...

penguinprincess333 2019/12/06

Love it!

I like how I can be informed about happenings in data science and data analysis without having to sit down and read something. I like the non-data bit...

Msymns 2021/12/02

Tried to love it

Sometimes there are great things, but it takes a lot of digging. It’s like listening to friends who sometimes talk about data science related things, ...

Java ger 2021/04/04

The Hilary ego?

Have to unsubscribe. Listening to Hilary is like gossip at sorority event. Hilary certainly has a great depth of experience...but she strikes me as co...

Studying in Taiwan 2020/12/23

Needs editing

Lots of golden nuggets in there, but boy do you have to dig. Please focus...

Robert1611 2020/08/27

Confusing Podcast

I subscribed to this Podcast a few months ago looking for some insights to the data science community and topics. What I found was about 10% data scie...

coltongrainger 2019/11/07

thanks!

So good! I am TAing sophomore stats and have considered recommending this to my students. Glad also for the imposter article ref on medium. Used it fo...

L_J_H 2019/05/22

The liberal use of the word “like” was too distracting

If the content were more focused, I could have pushed through Hillary’s use of “like” about 20 times per sentence. However, the content was rambling &...

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