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Oct 12, 2020 • 30min

Defending the p-value

Yudi Pawitan joins us to discuss his paper Defending the P-value.
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Oct 5, 2020 • 32min

Retraction Watch

Ivan Oransky joins us to discuss his work documenting the scientific peer-review process at retractionwatch.com.  
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Sep 21, 2020 • 28min

Crowdsourced Expertise

Derek Lim joins us to discuss the paper Expertise and Dynamics within Crowdsourced Musical Knowledge Curation: A Case Study of the Genius Platform.  
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Sep 14, 2020 • 36min

The Spread of Misinformation Online

Neil Johnson joins us to discuss the paper The online competition between pro- and anti-vaccination views.
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Sep 7, 2020 • 23min

Consensus Voting

Mashbat Suzuki joins us to discuss the paper How Many Freemasons Are There? The Consensus Voting Mechanism in Metric Spaces. Check out Mashbat’s and many other great talks at the 13th Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 2020)
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Aug 31, 2020 • 27min

Voting Mechanisms

Steven Heilman joins us to discuss his paper Designing Stable Elections. For a general interest article, see: https://theconversation.com/the-electoral-college-is-surprisingly-vulnerable-to-popular-vote-changes-141104 Steven Heilman receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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Aug 24, 2020 • 33min

False Consensus

Sami Yousif joins us to discuss the paper The Illusion of Consensus: A Failure to Distinguish Between True and False Consensus. This work empirically explores how individuals evaluate consensus under different experimental conditions reviewing online news articles. More from Sami at samiyousif.org Link to survey mentioned by Daniel Kerrigan: https://forms.gle/TCdGem3WTUYEP31B8
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Aug 18, 2020 • 38min

Fraud Detection in Real Time

In this solo episode, Kyle overviews the field of fraud detection with eCommerce as a use case.  He discusses some of the techniques and system architectures used by companies to fight fraud with a focus on why these things need to be approached from a real-time perspective.
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Aug 11, 2020 • 23min

Listener Survey Review

In this episode, Kyle and Linhda review the results of our recent survey. Hear all about the demographic details and how we interpret these results.
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Jul 27, 2020 • 33min

Human Computer Interaction and Online Privacy

Moses Namara from the HATLab joins us to discuss his research into the interaction between privacy and human-computer interaction.

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