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Roger Peng and Hilary ParkerExplicit
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Date created
2015/09/16
Latest episode
2025/05/19
Average duration
57 min.
Release period
54 days
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Roger Peng and Hilary Parker talk about the latest in data science and data analysis in academia and industry.
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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.
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Roger Peng
Hilary Parker
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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.
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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.
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Roger Peng
Hilary Parker
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Get the Not So Standard Deviations book
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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.
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Roger Peng
Hilary Parker
List of NSSD Fellows
Get the Not So Standard Deviations book
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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.
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Support us on Patreon
Roger Peng
Hilary Parker
List of NSSD Fellows
Get the Not So Standard Deviations book
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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:
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Roger Peng
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List of NSSD Fellows
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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.
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Roger Peng
Hilary Parker
List of NSSD Fellows
Get the Not So Standard Deviations book
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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Roger on Twitter
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Get the Not So Standard Deviations book
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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
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List of NSSD Fellows
Get the Not So Standard Deviations book
Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts
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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
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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
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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
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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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