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Data SkepticMeasuring Trust in Robots with Likert ScalesWe are joined by two guests today, Mariah, a Ph.D. student in the CORE Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech, and Matthew Gombolay, the Director of the CORE Robotics Lab. They both discuss practices for measuring a respondent’s perception in a survey.2023-04-0347 min
Data SkepticMining the Social Web with Matthew Russell This week's episode explores the possibilities of extracting novel insights from the many great social web APIs available. Matthew Russell's Mining the Social Web is a fantastic exploration of the tools and methods, and we explore a few related topics. One helpful feature of the book is it's use of a Vagrant virtual machine. Using it, readers can easily reproduce the examples from the book, and there's a short video available that will walk you through setting up the Mining the Social Web virtual machine. The book also has an accompanying github repository which can be fo...2014-11-0750 min
Data SkepticMining the Social Web with Matthew Russell
This week's episode explores the possibilities of extracting novel
insights from the many great social web APIs available. Matthew
Russell's Mining the
Social Web is a fantastic exploration of the tools and
methods, and we explore a few related topics.
One helpful feature of the book is it's use of a Vagrant virtual machine.
Using it, readers can easily reproduce the examples from the book,
and there's a short video available that will walk you
through setting up the
Mining the Social Web virtual machine.
The book also has an accompanying github repository which can be
fo...2014-11-0750 minData SkepticContest Announcement The Data Skeptic Podcast is launching a contest- not one of chance, but one of skill. Listeners are encouraged to put their data science skills to good use, or if all else fails, guess! The contest works as follows. Below is some data about the cumulative number of downloads the podcast has achieved on a few given dates. Your job is to predict the date and time at which the podcast will recieve download number 27,182. Why this arbitrary number? It's as good as any other arbitrary number! Use whatever means you want to formulate a...2014-10-0812 min
Data SkepticContest AnnouncementThe Data Skeptic Podcast is launching a contest- not one of chance, but one of skill. Listeners are encouraged to put their data science skills to good use, or if all else fails, guess!
The contest works as follows. Below is some data about the cumulative number of downloads the podcast has achieved on a few given dates. Your job is to predict the date and time at which the podcast will recieve download number 27,182. Why this arbitrary number? It's as good as any other arbitrary number!
Use whatever means you want to formulate a...2014-10-0812 min