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Dec 19, 2024
Music Streaming Statistics | Stats + Stories Episode 354
Dec 19, 2024
Dec 19, 2024
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Oct 24, 2024
The Statistical Kings of Comedy | Stats + Stories Episode 348
Oct 24, 2024
Oct 24, 2024
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Feb 29, 2024
Math and Music | Stats + Stories Episode 317
Feb 29, 2024

Long after Harry Nilsson said, “one is the loneliest number,” and after Bob Seger sang about feeling like a number, music streaming services are using data to help of discover new music that connects to our frequent plays and preferences. Dr. Kobi Abayomi helps break that all down in this episode of Stats+Stories.   

Feb 29, 2024
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Feb 15, 2024
The Info Graphic Visionary | Stats + Stories Episode 315
Feb 15, 2024

Good data visualization can catapult a news story or research article from ho hum to extraordinary. A new book series is exploring the careers of information graphic visionaries. And that's the focus of this episode of Stats+Stories with guest RJ Andrews.

Feb 15, 2024
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Feb 9, 2023
Careers in Rom Coms | Stats + Stories Episode 264
Feb 9, 2023

Romantic comedies are rife with plucky heroines. Small bookstore owners are being pushed out by big corporations, runaway brides, and Perpetual bridesmaids. But where are the scientists, microbiologists and engineers, and statisticians? One researcher went looking for them, which is the focus of this episode of Stats+Stories with guest Veronica Carlan. 

Feb 9, 2023
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Jun 16, 2022
Introducing Our New Guest Host | A Special Stats + Stories Episode
Jun 16, 2022

In this special episode of Stats+Stories we announce our new guest host Dr. Regina Nuzzo, a professor at Gallaudet University and freelance science writer, who will be joining us for the next couple of months. We will also be looking back at some of our favorite interviews from the past 12 months from the likes of...

Jun 16, 2022
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Mar 31, 2022
Predicting the Weather with Pietro the Weather Tortoise | Stats + Stories Episode 225
Mar 31, 2022

Meteorologists go to school to be able to predict the weather accurately, but for some people, weather prediction is a hobby. Maybe they have a trick knee that hurts when it rains or perhaps they know when a storm is coming by how the birds at their feeders are behaving. Some lucky folks have pets that can help them figure out what the weather is going to do and that’s the focus of this episode of Stats and Stories with guest Connor Jackson.

Mar 31, 2022
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Feb 24, 2022
The Best Friend on Friends | Stats + Stories Episode 220
Feb 24, 2022

Since the 1990’s people have been trying to figure out who’s the best friend. Is it Chandler because of his dry wit? Phoebe because of her unabashed enthusiasm? Joey because his loyalty? Well, leave it to statistics to give us a firm answer. Who’s the best friend from the show Friends is the focus of this episode of Stats and Stories with guest Mathias Basner

Feb 24, 2022
A Not So Standard Podcast | Stats + Stories Episode 212
Dec 16, 2021
A Not So Standard Podcast | Stats + Stories Episode 212
Dec 16, 2021

Our lives are increasingly shaped by statistics and data. However, they remain concepts that can be difficult for broad audiences to understand. A number of outlets, including this one, have sprung up to help make them more accessible. Today another one, the “Not So Standard Deviations” podcast is the focus of this episode of Stats+Stories with guests Hilary Parker and Roger D. Peng.

Dec 16, 2021
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Sep 16, 2021
#MemeMedianMode Contest Winner! | Stats + Stories Episode 200
Sep 16, 2021

At Stats+Stories we're lucky to have listeners who put up with John's bad jokes and our general shenanigans. In fact, you've listened to 199 discussions of the statistics behind the stories and the stories behind the statistics. To mark our 100th episode we asked you to submit statistical headlines and a haiku won. For 200 we took to Twitter using the #MemeMedianMode hashtag and this time those that rose to the top actually memes. Today we're talking to the creators of our top two.

Nynke Krol (@krol_nynke) is a statistician at statistics Netherlands who also submitted a stance mean that caused both, John and Rosemary, to actually laughed out loud when they saw her take on data normality.

Eric Daza (@ericjdaza) is a data scientist statistician who focuses on digital health, he submitted several means to our mean, median, mode contest, including one that made me flashback to my first graduate class in research methods, on causation/correlation.

Sep 16, 2021

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